Configurable vscode server download path

[lyquid617]

Hello there, I tried connecting to a remote server, but got an out-of-space error. Check the log file, found that it tries to download the server to /tmp and / run out of space. After cleaning up the /, it works fine.

After searching I found there is remote.ssh:server install path which is default ~ to configure install path. I wonder if the download path can also be configured.

The related log snippet is as follows:

[12:14:10.122] [server] Downloading Visual Studio Code server -> /tmp/.tmpp40D4U/vscode-server-linux-legacy-x64.tar.gz
[12:14:10.122] [server] server download progress: 0/59538362 (0%)
[12:14:10.163] [server] server download progress: 2105344/59538362 (4%)
[12:14:10.183] [server] server download progress: 4210688/59538362 (7%)
[12:14:10.203] [server] server download progress: 6316032/59538362 (11%)
[12:14:10.220] [server] server download progress: 8421376/59538362 (14%)
[12:14:10.238] [server] server download progress: 10526720/59538362 (18%)
[12:14:10.259] [server] server download progress: 12632064/59538362 (21%)
[12:14:10.279] [server] server download progress: 14737408/59538362 (25%)
[12:14:10.345] [server] Error installing server: failed to download file: No space left on device (os error 28)

[prajzwal08]

Hi, Was the issue solved?

[ritwikmishra]

The following worked for me (you will need root privileges).

• sudo su
• Delete the /tmp/ folder (rm -rf /tmp/)
• create a new /tmp/ folder (mkdir /tmp/)
• change the permission so that the folder is writeable by everyone (chmod 777 /tmp/)

[vzcrab]

Hello there,

It also seems to download the extension at startup.

I need to specify the tmp folder, which is very helpful for hosts like NFS.

[10:23:45.370] [server] [10:23:45] Extension host agent started.
[10:23:45.377] [server] [10:23:45] Error occurred in server
[10:23:45.383] [server] [10:23:45] Error: listen ENOSPC: no space left on device /tmp/code-aed65e5c-e819-447e-8c50-d0fa9d3d26ed
[10:23:45.384] [server]     at Server.setupListenHandle [as _listen2] (node:net:1882:21)
[10:23:45.384] [server]     at listenInCluster (node:net:1961:12)
[10:23:45.384] [server]     at Server.listen (node:net:2080:5)
[10:23:45.385] [server]   errno: -28,

[joshspicer]

Thank you for taking the time to open an issue. Could you please share your logs (> Remote-SSH: Show Log in the command palette) after reproducing the issue?

Does it help if you set the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR env variable on the remote? That's a standard variable used to indicate the temp directory.

[joshspicer]

That said, to support unique configurations it seems logical to provide a setting. In this case the issue is not in the SSH extension, but in the VS Code Remote Server that is spawned

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[lcoliny]

We hope to configure the installation directory of vscode_server separately for each remote server, rather than using a user-wide configuration. This is because some servers have user home directories mounted via NFS3 to an HDFS directory, which causes errors when installing extensions and modifying the remote workspace configuration file settings.json (likely due to NFS3's lack of support for locking).

On the other hand, using NFS4 to mount a regular hard drive as the user home directory works without issues. Since the directory structures of different servers are inconsistent, we need to configure the server installation directory for each server to use a local directory on the server instead of an NFS-mounted path.

Of course, if the issues with NFS3 could be resolved, that would also be an acceptable solution.

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