Josh Spicer

Interesting, it appears the architecture was resolved to an empty string 🤔 Should be (for an x64 system): `https://update.code.visualstudio.com/commit:19e0f9e681ecb8e5c09d8784acaa601316ca4571/cli-win32-/stable` -> `https://update.code.visualstudio.com/commit:19e0f9e681ecb8e5c09d8784acaa601316ca4571/cli-win32-x64/stable`

There looks to be some security errors executing a powershell script on your remote host ``` + CategoryInfo : SecurityError: (:) []��PSSecurityException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : UnauthorizedAccess ``` Could antivirus software...

@Chartman123 If you're also seeing `The remote host does not meet the prerequisites for running the VS Code server` the issue is not related to the platformDownloadPath. Refer to https://aka.ms/vscode-remote/faq/old-linux...

@Chartman123 - that sounds unrelated to the original issue here then, right? Please open a new issue with your logs if you'd like us to take a peek.

I've had personal success in the past building the dev container in the past (leaving it open on my laptop) and _then_ going offline (in this case, on a plane)....

> It would be also good to know how to start one yourself like docker/devcontainer cli wise. With the dev container CLI, you can start up a dev environment with...

> For example, if a container is created with an empty configuration for a pool Important to call out here that there's never a container created via an "empty configuration"...

@rzhao271 is it possible to share your entire SSH log?

So long as Features don't directly depend on each other, you should be able to use the [`overrideFeatureInstallOrder`](https://containers.dev/implementors/features/#overrideFeatureInstallOrder) property. In your case you'd mirror the Feature identifiers from the `features`...

As an aside, it may be more natural to use a [lifecycle script](https://containers.dev/implementors/json_reference/#lifecycle-scripts) to perform the package updates, instead of my suggestion above.