editor stuck on "Activating Extensions"

[Fakliro]

Describe the bug in some cases (which cant quite understand which) - the editor is stuck in activating extensions and i cant enter any vim mode. every time i press a key a message in the lower bar reports: "Activating Extensions" **

i thought maybe there is some conflict or overload on the editor with other extensions, but i cant find a way to disable this behavior.

Expected behavior enter any vim mode without getting the "Activating Extension" alert

Environment (please complete the following information):

• Extension (VsCodeVim) version: i am using vim V1.24.3 because i am working on a private network, and this is the latest version that is compatible with the vscode version we are using.
• VSCode version: 1.73.1
• OS:win 10

[an-dr-eas-k]

for me, this happens

• when many files change on the open project, for example during git operations, and also,
• when I run a dotnet solution build

[socketbox]

I'm not sure why #3826 was closed, because this seems like the same issue (which I'm also encountering). When it happened to me, I had a YAML file open. I've never touched dotnet.

Installed extensions:

redhat.vscode-yaml
golang.go
github.copilot
github.copilot-chat
vscodevim.vim

Environment:

Version: 1.85.1
Commit: 0ee08df0cf4527e40edc9aa28f4b5bd38bbff2b2
Date: 2023-12-13T09:47:11.635Z
Electron: 25.9.7
ElectronBuildId: 25551756
Chromium: 114.0.5735.289
Node.js: 18.15.0
V8: 11.4.183.29-electron.0
OS: Linux x64 6.5.0-14-generic

I worked around it by restarting the IDE.

[VAggrippino]

I'm experiencing the same problem today. It's been over a year since this was opened and over 5 years since #3826 was opened. Everything's updated. I don't have any of the extensions mentioned in either issue report other than VSCodeVim.

Closing all VSCode windows doesn't help and neither does rebooting. I have plenty of available space on all partitions as well. When I disable VSCodeVim, all functionality immediately returns.

This started happening in the middle of my day. I had already been working for several hours. There were no updates in progress or recent updates.

The current project is just something I'm experimenting with. This isn't a Git repository.

There are no other significant processes running on my computer other than Firefox. It still happens if I close Firefox.

Relatively low CPU, memory, and disk usage.

Update Removing the WebC for VSCode extension by Fynn Becker also fixes the problem.

Unfortunately, while troubleshooting this, I was removing extensions in alphabetical order... WebC was last. Oh well... Vim is the only one I consider essential anyway 😅

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Version: 1.91.1 Commit: f1e16e1e6214d7c44d078b1f0607b2388f29d729 Date: 2024-07-09T22:08:12.169Z Electron: 29.4.0 ElectronBuildId: 9728852 Chromium: 122.0.6261.156 Node.js: 20.9.0 V8: 12.2.281.27-electron.0 OS: Linux x64 5.15.0-117-generic

VSCodeVim 1.27.3