Can't connect remotely using Remote-SSH: "spawn UNKNOWN"

Question

I'm trying to remotely connect to a server (running on Ubuntu 16.04.7 LTS) through VSCode (started on WSL).

I've set the path to my WSL Config file (with the SSH keys inside) in VSCode Remote-SSH.

I can reach and connect to the server through the terminal as well as the VSCode terminal.

Yet, when trying to connect through Remote-SSH I'm getting the message

Failed to connect to the remote extension host server (Error: spawn UNKNOWN)

with the following error log:

[13:50:42.906] Log Level: 2 [13:50:42.922] [email protected] [13:50:42.922] win32 x64 [13:50:42.925] SSH Resolver called for "ssh-remote+<net>.net", attempt 1 [13:50:42.925] SSH Resolver called for host: <net>.net [13:50:42.926] Setting up SSH remote "<net>.net" [13:50:42.970] Using commit id "<CommitID>" and quality "stable" for server [13:50:42.974] Install and start server if needed [13:50:44.876] Checking ssh with "ssh -V" [13:50:44.888] Finding installed ssh failed: spawn UNKNOWN [13:50:44.897] Resolver error: Error: spawn UNKNOWN at ChildProcess.spawn (internal/child_process.js:394:11) at Object.spawn (child_process.js:549:9) at c:\Users\<user>\.vscode\extensions\ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh-0.56.0\out\extension.js:1:242426 at new Promise (<anonymous>) at q (c:\Users\<user>\.vscode\extensions\ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh-0.56.0\out\extension.js:1:242347) at k (c:\Users\<user>\.vscode\extensions\ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh-0.56.0\out\extension.js:1:242298) at _ (c:\Users\<user>\.vscode\extensions\ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh-0.56.0\out\extension.js:1:245580) at P (c:\Users\<user>\.vscode\extensions\ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh-0.56.0\out\extension.js:1:245741) at O (c:\Users\<user>\.vscode\extensions\ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh-0.56.0\out\extension.js:1:242117) at C (c:\Users\<user>\.vscode\extensions\ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh-0.56.0\out\extension.js:1:242026) at Object.t.generateMultiLineCommand (c:\Users\<user>\.vscode\extensions\ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh-0.56.0\out\extension.js:1:243396) at q (c:\Users\<user>\.vscode\extensions\ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh-0.56.0\out\extension.js:127:107623) at c:\Users\<user>\.vscode\extensions\ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh-0.56.0\out\extension.js:127:105016 at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:94:5) at async Object.t.withShowDetailsEvent (c:\Users\<user>\.vscode\extensions\ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh-0.56.0\out\extension.js:127:110096) at async Object.t.resolve (c:\Users\<user>\.vscode\extensions\ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh-0.56.0\out\extension.js:127:108158) at async c:\Users\<user>\.vscode\extensions\ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh-0.56.0\out\extension.js:127:143767 [13:50:44.908] ------

Already tried setting up manually the vscode server remotely as suggested here

Thanks in advance for any help!

Javier S · Accepted Answer · 2022-09-15 06:57:10Z

7

Had the same problem.

After trying everything, the only thing that worked 100% was just killing vs-code and opening it again.

answered Sep 15, 2022 at 6:57

Javier S

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2 Comments

displayname123 Over a year ago

I wasted so much time on this, and all I had to do was restart!

afruzan May 26 at 17:02

exactly the same in my case :)

tallwithknees · Accepted Answer · 2020-12-27 16:49:03Z

Seems things got messed up with the update. I fixed it by reinstalling the Remote SSH extension: ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh and reloading as you will be instructed to do. I also just installed the entire Remote Development extension: ms-vscode-remote.vscode-remote-extensionpack and reloaded vscode as instructed by vscode.

Before this though, I deleted (rm -rf) the contents of /home/<your_username>/.vscode-server/ bin/ and data/