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Fix VS Code "Reopen in Devbox shell environment" in WSL #2729

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13 changes: 11 additions & 2 deletions internal/boxcli/integrate.go
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Expand Up @@ -108,7 +108,10 @@ func runIntegrateVSCodeCmd(cmd *cobra.Command, flags integrateCmdFlags) error {
// PATH after VSCode opens and resets it to global shellenv. This causes the VSCode
// terminal to not be able to find devbox packages after the reopen in devbox
// environment action is called.
return ok && (strings.HasPrefix(k, "DEVBOX_OG_PATH") || k == "NODE_CHANNEL_FD")
//
// ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE being set causes this error in WSL:
// "Remote Extension host terminated unexpectedly 3 times within the last 5 minutes."
return ok && (strings.HasPrefix(k, "DEVBOX_OG_PATH") || k == "ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE" || k == "NODE_CHANNEL_FD")
})

// Send message to parent process to terminate
Expand All @@ -121,7 +124,13 @@ func runIntegrateVSCodeCmd(cmd *cobra.Command, flags integrateCmdFlags) error {
return err
}
// Open editor with devbox shell environment
cmnd := exec.Command(flags.ideName, message.ConfigDir)
cmndName := flags.ideName
cwd, ok := os.LookupEnv("VSCODE_CWD")
if ok {
// Specify full path to avoid running the `code` shell script from VS Code Server, which fails under WSL
cmndName = cwd + "/bin/" + cmndName
}
cmnd := exec.Command(cmndName, message.ConfigDir)
cmnd.Env = append(cmnd.Env, envVars...)
var outb, errb bytes.Buffer
cmnd.Stdout = &outb
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