Binaries not installed by vscode extension

[ahri]

Steps to reproduce

Install a fresh copy of vscode via the Ubuntu Snap (v1.57.1 in my env), open a container workspace containing .devcontainer/devcontainer.json with "extensions": ["haskell.haskell"], set.

Expected behaviour

The extension should be loaded and install the binaries in order to provide LSP services.

Actual behaviour

No binaries are installed, no errors come up despite setting trace messaging on. Indeed, there's no "Haskell" log stream in the "output" dropdown, and no related errors in the Extensions, Extension Host or Remote Extension Host log streams.

Also, using the command palette to run "Haskell: Restart Haskell LSP server" got me an error saying "Restart Haskell LSP server: restartServer not found".

[ahri]

I also tried uninstalling the snap then

• installing in "classic" mode - no dice, same problem
• installing the .deb linked from https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/setup/linux - again, same problem

Is there a way for me to force it to install, or see some output? The extension seems to be installed, it's just not doing anything!

[ahri]

Ah! Bringing up the command palette via ctrl+shift+p and then running "Remote-Containers: Rebuild Container" kicked it into action: I saw it install the Haskell plugin and now I have a "Haskell" log.

It seems like it's more of a bug with vscode than with the Haskell plugin per-se.

[ahri]

For posterity the binaries ended up in /home/user/.vscode-server/data/User/globalStorage/haskell.haskell - which is dictated by my Dockerfile.

[jneira]

Closing after reviewing the comment:

It seems like it's more of a bug with vscode than with the Haskell plugin per-se.

thanks for reporting the issue and post the info about its eventual solution