code or code-insiders is not installed

[davetapley]

Version: 1.55.2 (user setup)
Commit: 3c4e3df9e89829dce27b7b5c24508306b151f30d
Date: 2021-04-13T09:35:57.887Z
Electron: 11.3.0
Chrome: 87.0.4280.141
Node.js: 12.18.3
V8: 8.7.220.31-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19042

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Add these files to an empty directory.
   ( generated with Remote-Containers: Add Development Container Configuration Files...)

2. Open directory in VS Code

3. Choose 'Reopen in Container'

4. Type code in to bash in integrated terminal

5. Observe: code or code-insiders is not installed

Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Yes †

† I couldn't do it with --disable-extensions because I need the ms-vscode-remote.remote-containers extension to repro and microsoft/vscode#81950 prevents any extensions from working. However I was able to use technique from microsoft/vscode#81950 (comment) to enable solely ms-vscode-remote.remote-containers and confirm issue still exists.

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As noted here code is in the container:

 ~/.vscode-server/bin/[HEX]/bin/code

[davetapley]

I just realized this should probably have gone in https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-remote-release, can someone move there? 🙏🏻

[chrmarti]

What is the container terminal's PATH value?

[davetapley]

@chrmarti thanks for picking this up 🙏🏻

vscode ➜ /workspaces/devcontainer-missing-code $ echo $PATH
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/home/vscode/.local/bin

Sure enough, /home/vscode/.local is missing:

vscode ➜ /workspaces/devcontainer-missing-code $ ls -la /home/vscode
total 60
drwxr-xr-x  1 vscode vscode 4096 May  3 17:01 .
drwxr-xr-x  1 root   root   4096 Apr 30 02:17 ..
-rw-------  1 vscode vscode  198 Apr 30 19:03 .bash_history
-rw-r--r--  1 vscode vscode  220 Feb 25  2020 .bash_logout
-rw-r--r--  1 vscode vscode 4870 Apr 30 02:17 .bashrc
drwxr-xr-x  3 vscode vscode 4096 Apr 30 18:39 .config
-rw-r--r--  1 vscode vscode  634 May  3 17:01 .gitconfig
drwxr-xr-x  2 vscode vscode 4096 Apr 30 02:17 .oh-my-bash
drwxr-xr-x 12 vscode vscode 4096 Apr 30 02:17 .oh-my-zsh
-rw-r--r--  1 vscode vscode  807 Feb 25  2020 .profile
drwxr-xr-x  2 vscode vscode 4096 Apr 30 18:37 .ssh
drwxr-xr-x  5 vscode vscode 4096 Apr 30 18:37 .vscode-server
-rw-r--r--  1 vscode vscode 3713 Apr 30 02:17 .zshrc

[chrmarti]

Make sure you have Inherit Env enabled in your settings:

The ~/.local/bin PATH-entry appears to be part of the container's /etc/bash.bashrc and doesn't matter in this case.

[davetapley]

@chrmarti yep, that was it! Thanks 💯