WSL Auto Update broke `code` CLI

[CodeMan99]

Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Unknown

• VS Code Version:
• OS Version:

Steps to Reproduce:

Automatic update occurred.

$ code .
Installing VS Code Server for x64 (5554b12acf27056905806867f251c859323ff7e9)
Downloading: 100%
Unpacking: 100%
Unpacked 2158 files and folders to /home/cody/.vscode-server-server/bin/5554b12acf27056905806867f251c859323ff7e9.
/mnt/c/Users/11954/.vscode/extensions/ms-vscode-remote.remote-wsl-0.63.13/scripts/wslCode.sh: 69: /home/cody/.vscode-server-server/bin/5554b12acf27056905806867f251c859323ff7e9/bin/code: not found

Further attempts to use code . also errors.

$ code
/mnt/c/Users/11954/.vscode/extensions/ms-vscode-remote.remote-wsl-0.63.13/scripts/wslCode.sh: 69: /home/cody/.vscode-server-server/bin/5554b12acf27056905806867f251c859323ff7e9/bin/code: not found

[CodeMan99]

I also have two different "vscode-server" folders:

# output from ls -l
-rwxr-xr-x 1 cody cody 230 Feb  2 23:21 /home/cody/.vscode-server-server/bin/5554b12acf27056905806867f251c859323ff7e9/bin/code-server
-rwxr-xr-x 1 cody cody 335 Dec 15 04:38 /home/cody/.vscode-server/bin/899d46d82c4c95423fb7e10e68eba52050e30ba3/bin/code

[CodeMan99]

Opening VSCode via the start menu seems to have magically fix the issue. 🤷

[myusrn]

I just started getting the same issue, details below, in both my win11 wslg ubuntu and kali-linux distro setups. If i delete the /home/<my wsl distro username>/.vscode-server-server executing code . redownloads those bits and generates the same error.

As suggested above if i opened win11 vscode, which appeared to have just applied January 2022 (version 1.64) update, and then retried launching it from win11 wslg distro cli things are working again.

code .
/mnt/c/Users/<my windows username>/.vscode/extensions/ms-vscode-remote.remote-wsl-0.63.13/scripts/wslCode.sh: 69: 
/home/<my wsl distro username>/.vscode-server-server/bin/5554b12acf27056905806867f251c859323ff7e9/bin/code: not found

p.s. Impressed that bing.com search on "wslCode.sh: 69: .vscode-server-server/bin/5554b12acf27056905806867f251c859323ff7e9/bin/code: not found" presented this github issue entry as first hit given its only an hour old. Less impressed by fact that if I then set the search results filter to past 24hrs or past month the hit for this relevant issue gets bumped out of results list.

[fre-ben]

Opening VSCode via the start menu seems to have magically fix the issue. 🤷

Did the trick for me as well, had to start it manually once via Windows. Now the code x command works in WSL2 again.

[SethTales]

Opening VS code via start menu also fixed it for me. code command works again

[jwatilo]

Thank God I found this issue report!
Exact same problem with me, also, and doing the "open in native windows first" trick got me up and running again.

[CodeMan99]

Re-opening as this seems to be affecting many users, suggesting a migration issue?

[suvadeep89]

Facing this exact same issue across multiple linux distros in WSL2 (Centos, Ubuntu, Fedora). Suddenly VSCode update has broken all these

[benafischer94]

Can confirm the issue when trying to open with code . within a directory on WSL (Ubuntu 20.04.) Opening VSC from the start menu, then within the same WSL instance trying to start again it works as expected.

[microhobby]

Maybe another tip that can be useful, in my case I don't let VS Code update the extensions automatically, so what solved it for me with this January 2022 version was to update the remote and WSL remote extensions to the latest versions ...

[eitsupi]

seems related to microsoft/vscode-remote-release#6285

[sauravbhise]

Open the start menu and type "code" and hit enter. It will open VS Code. Now try running the code command again (in your linux distro terminal) and it should work.
This worked for me. Seems to be an issue with the auto-update.