VSCode Insiders Blank Screen #23639

charankumarpalla · 2017-03-30T05:02:31Z

VSCode Version: Version 1.11.0-insider (1.11.0-insider) d98a518
OS Version: mac Sierra 10.12.2

Steps to Reproduce:

As Of This issues : vscode/issues/2806, Downloaded VS Code From https://code.visualstudio.com/insiders
When I Open VSCode, it comes just Blank , None of the option works

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aeschli · 2017-03-30T07:36:11Z

Did you try with the latest update? If you still see this, can you see something in the console or in the developer tools (Help > Toggle Developer Tools)

charankumarpalla · 2017-03-30T08:04:42Z

Downloaded New version : 6b95480

Still seeing the same issue,

I'm able to open developer tools

aeschli · 2017-03-30T19:23:06Z

Can you check the Console tab in the dev tools?

charankumarpalla · 2017-04-03T08:05:10Z

Yes, I can see Console tab...

please list me that steps, commands/log files that I can share with u to solve this issue.

chrmarti · 2017-04-04T22:19:05Z

@charankumarpalla Please click the 'Console' tab in the 'Developer Tools' window and post what is shown there (or attach a screenshot).

hrgui · 2017-04-05T23:18:04Z

@chrmarti the workaround for me right now is:
OS : Mac OS X Sierra 10.2.4
Code 1.11 Stable

code --verbose

Update:
It looks like if I load Code from terminal it works, but if i don't load it from terminal (e.g. finder) it doesnt work

satokaz · 2017-04-06T04:21:40Z

I do not know if it will be a solution ,,,

What happens when renaming $HOME/Library/Application Support/Code - Insiders directory from Terminal and Invoke code from finder?

Note: $HOME/Library/Application Support/Code - Insiders contains some important files such as settings.json. Do not erase it.

bpasero · 2017-04-06T05:02:17Z

@hrgui @satokaz when this happens can you see if there is some output in the console printed?

hrgui · 2017-04-06T05:16:30Z

Unfortunately, there isn't anything in the console:

What I also do know in this mode, in 1.10.2, I had this problem with debugger that says the following:

"Cannot find node in path"

Would that be related by any chance?

bpasero · 2017-04-06T05:20:09Z

@hrgui to be clear, you see this blank window only when clicking on the Code icon in the dock, but not when running from the command line?

hrgui · 2017-04-06T05:21:33Z

@bpasero correct. From the command line, it looks like this:

bpasero · 2017-04-06T05:23:42Z

@hrgui how about running the binary directly from the command line:

/Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/MacOS> ./Electron

satokaz · 2017-04-06T05:24:31Z

@bpasero

I am sorry for making you misunderstand.
In my environment code v1.11 and code-insiders 1.11.0 2017-04-04T21:06:37.100Z works fine.

VSCode Version: Code 1.11.0 (9122ec4, 2017-04-05T20:52:01.201Z)
OS Version: Darwin x64 16.5.0 (macOS sierra 10.12.4)

I encountered similar problems in the past and had experience recovering by deleting directories.

hrgui · 2017-04-06T05:27:20Z

@bpasero that results in the blank screen / nothing in devtools console

bpasero · 2017-04-06T05:38:56Z

@hrgui how about /Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/MacOS> ./Electron --verbose

Any output in the terminal?

hrgui · 2017-04-06T05:41:15Z

terminal shows:

/Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/MacOS> ./Electron --verbose

➜  MacOS ./Electron --verbose
[main 10:40:31 PM] Starting VS Code in verbose mode
[main 10:40:31 PM] from: /Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app
[main 10:40:31 PM] args: { _: [],
  help: false,
  h: false,
  version: false,
  v: false,
  wait: false,
  w: false,
  diff: false,
  d: false,
  goto: false,
  g: false,
  'new-window': false,
  n: false,
  'unity-launch': false,
  'reuse-window': false,
  r: false,
  performance: false,
  p: false,
  'prof-startup': false,
  verbose: true,
  logExtensionHostCommunication: false,
  'disable-extensions': false,
  disableExtensions: false,
  'list-extensions': false,
  'show-versions': false,
  nolazy: false }

This is how code --verbose looks like:

➜  MacOS code --verbose
[main 10:42:22 PM] Starting VS Code in verbose mode
[main 10:42:22 PM] from: /Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app
[main 10:42:22 PM] args: { _: [],
  help: false,
  h: false,
  version: false,
  v: false,
  wait: false,
  w: false,
  diff: false,
  d: false,
  goto: false,
  g: false,
  'new-window': false,
  n: false,
  'unity-launch': false,
  'reuse-window': false,
  r: false,
  performance: false,
  p: false,
  'prof-startup': false,
  verbose: true,
  logExtensionHostCommunication: false,
  'disable-extensions': false,
  disableExtensions: false,
  'list-extensions': false,
  'show-versions': false,
  nolazy: false }
[main 10:42:23 PM] IPC#vscode-machineId
[89614:0405/224224:INFO:CONSOLE(28)] "Overwriting extension <<.ejs>> to now point to mime <<text/x-ejs>>", source: file:////Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/out/vs/workbench/electron-browser/workbench.main.js (28)
[89614:0405/224224:INFO:CONSOLE(28)] "Overwriting extension <<.jsx>> to now point to mime <<text/x-jsx>>", source: file:////Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/out/vs/workbench/electron-browser/workbench.main.js (28)
[main 10:42:25 PM] IPC#vscode-workbenchLoaded
[89614:0405/224226:INFO:CONSOLE(28)] "%c[IPC Library: Watcher]", source: file:////Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/out/vs/workbench/electron-browser/workbench.main.js (28)
[89614:0405/224226:INFO:CONSOLE(28)] "%c[IPC Library: Watcher]", source: file:////Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/out/vs/workbench/electron-browser/workbench.main.js (28)

bpasero · 2017-04-06T05:44:09Z

@hrgui how about downloading the entire app again to another location (e.g. downloads folder) and start it from there?

Link: https://az764295.vo.msecnd.net/stable/9122ec4b1068bd391e41974f46a4b54c1b9c90f9/VSCode-darwin-stable.zip

hrgui · 2017-04-06T05:48:40Z

So I downloaded, put it in home directory, ran /Users/harman.goei/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/MacOS/Electron --verbose, and it seems to do the same thing.

(Also, do you know of a way to make the logs collapsable? i don't want to clutter this thread with logs)

➜  MacOS pwd
/Users/harman.goei/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/MacOS
➜  MacOS ./Electron --verbose
[main 10:46:51 PM] Sending env to running instance...
[main 10:46:51 PM] Sent env to running instance. Terminating...
➜  MacOS ./Electron --verbose
[main 10:46:58 PM] Starting VS Code in verbose mode
[main 10:46:58 PM] from: /Users/harman.goei/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app
[main 10:46:58 PM] args: { _: [],
  help: false,
  h: false,
  version: false,
  v: false,
  wait: false,
  w: false,
  diff: false,
  d: false,
  goto: false,
  g: false,
  'new-window': false,
  n: false,
  'unity-launch': false,
  'reuse-window': false,
  r: false,
  performance: false,
  p: false,
  'prof-startup': false,
  verbose: true,
  logExtensionHostCommunication: false,
  'disable-extensions': false,
  disableExtensions: false,
  'list-extensions': false,
  'show-versions': false,
  nolazy: false }

bpasero · 2017-04-06T05:53:24Z

@hrgui no worries about spamming this thread! ok so it seems to be unrelated from where you start it. I wonder if we can debug this better from within the application's blank screen: when you open dev tools in there and click on the sources tab, there is a way to let the debugger stop "pause on exceptions" (the blue thing in my screenshot) as well as "Pause on uncaught exceptions".

Can you:

first just have the blue thing checked
press Cmd+R from when devtools has focus anywhere
this should reload the window and it may break in the debugger if there is an error
if so, please let me know

If it does not break, click on the other checkbox ("Pause on uncaught exceptions")

follow the same steps
you will hit some errors right away that are unrelated, mainly return process.binding(atom_${process.type}_${name}) and return process.binding('icu'); but I wonder if there is another error hit after that?

hrgui · 2017-04-06T05:56:51Z

Error: No such module: atom_renderer_v8_util
    at Error (native)
    at process.atomBinding (/Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/electron.asar/common/init.js:5:20)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/electron.asar/renderer/init.js:23:22)
    at Module._compile (module.js:556:32)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:565:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:473:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:432:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:424:3)
    at Module.runMain (module.js:590:10)
    at run (bootstrap_node.js:402:7)

Stepping through some more:

Error: No such module: icu
    at Error (native)
    at importPunycode (url.js:5:20)
    at url.js:11:21
    at NativeModule.compile (bootstrap_node.js:505:7)
    at Function.NativeModule.require (bootstrap_node.js:446:18)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:412:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:483:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:20:19)
    at s (file:///Applications/Visual%20Studio%20Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/out/vs/loader.js:4:25882)
    at t.load (file:///Applications/Visual%20Studio%20Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/out/vs/loader.js:4:10583)

So far I don't see any other errors beside those... I'll investigate some more when I have time.

bpasero · 2017-04-06T06:29:49Z

@hrgui thanks, this is weird. does it reproduce when you try our insiders channel? You can give our preview releases a try from: http://code.visualstudio.com/Download#insiders

ograycode · 2017-04-06T12:48:15Z

This is happening to me as well (blank screen). I just updated to 1.11.0 (9122ec4) after being prompted, using osx version 10.11.4.

I deleted the mainline app and tried redownloading with no success, and vs insiders (fresh download) shows the same symptoms. Insider build is at c905143

Nothing is being printed in developer tools console.

Removed Code from ~/Library/Application Support and still failed to start properly.

joaomoreno · 2017-04-06T13:46:14Z

@aeschli This happened to me 3 times today (once in the office, twice at home).

After quit, it started up fine.

bpasero · 2017-04-06T13:53:01Z

@joaomoreno how did you recover from it?

cbrevik · 2017-04-07T14:10:01Z


begin: getUnixShellEnvironment()
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@bpasero that's what I got in out.log

hrgui · 2017-04-07T14:11:30Z

Mine is similar to @cbrevik , except, begin: getUnixShellEnvironment fires 4 times:

begin: getUnixShellEnvironment()
begin: getUnixShellEnvironment()
begin: getUnixShellEnvironment()
begin: getUnixShellEnvironment()
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joaomoreno · 2017-04-07T14:15:43Z

The fix for #21655 is the probable cause of this mess.

bpasero · 2017-04-07T14:18:43Z

@hrgui @cbrevik almost there, can you do the exact same steps again, I have updated the getUnixShellEnvironment() code a little bit and attach the output here?

hrgui · 2017-04-07T14:20:42Z

@joaomoreno
I reverted the fix on main.js to reflect 78bc68a and it seems like that is the culprit.

I'll double check to confirm.

@bpasero

                fs.appendFileSync(logpath, "\n6");
                var child = cp.spawn(process.env.SHELL, ['-ilc', command], {
                    detached: true,
                    stdio: ['ignore', 'pipe', process.stderr],  // i changed this line from 'pipe' to 'ignore'
                    env: env
                });
                fs.appendFileSync(logpath, "\n7");

cbrevik · 2017-04-07T14:23:07Z

@bpasero Just begin: getUnixShellEnvironment() and before: process.lazyEnv again now

cbrevik · 2017-04-07T14:26:07Z

@hrgui Yep, reverting that also fixed it for me.

joaomoreno · 2017-04-07T14:27:07Z

What shells do you guys use?

cbrevik · 2017-04-07T14:28:54Z

@joaomoreno I primarily use fishshell

hrgui · 2017-04-07T14:29:42Z

@joaomoreno I use zsh, but chsh to zsh doesn't work for me, so for me it's just plain old bash when vscode reads it

correction: today i can finally chsh to zsh

bpasero · 2017-04-07T14:31:13Z

@chrmarti @hrgui you are not getting any output anymore in out.log after my latest getUnixShellEnvironment() ?

cbrevik · 2017-04-07T14:32:00Z

@bpasero only begin: getUnixShellEnvironment(). After reverting like @hrgui described I'm getting a whole lot more though.

(You removed the counting log I saw though?)

bpasero · 2017-04-07T14:36:37Z

Ok thanks, this indicates to me that the process we fork is never finishing and never produces any output. Maybe it is waiting on stdin for something.

joaomoreno · 2017-04-07T14:59:02Z

Reverted the fix for #21655, will engage on better understanding the underlying issue.

Thanks for all the help guys. We'll get this fix out asap.

This reverts commit 78bc68a. Fixes #23639

isidorn · 2017-04-12T08:54:46Z

Adding verified label since we have at least 2 users confirming the fix solved the issue for them

ograycode · 2017-04-12T13:58:31Z

I was having this issue (#23639 (comment)) and updated my copy of VS Insiders this morning. It now works. 👍

(I too am using fish)

isidorn · 2017-04-12T14:09:20Z

@ograycode thanks for letting us know

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VSCode Insiders Blank Screen #23639

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