Remote Explorer: SSH targets not appearing

[MariamNakhle]

After using Remote Explorer for over a year without any issue, suddenly last week none of the ssh targets appear when I click on the Remote Explorer icon on the left side bar. The .ssh/config file still contains all the host names.

I tried uninstalling + reinstalling Remote Explorer and Remote-SSH extensions. I also uninstalled and reinstalled VScode.

Here are the versions I am using:

VScode version: 1.86.0 Remote - SSH version: v0.108.0 Remote Explorer version v0.4.1

[jamesps-ebi]

Same issue here. I rolled back to v0.107.1 and the SSH targets re-appeared for me.

[MariamNakhle]

Thanks, this worked for me too.

[Neeham]

Same issue, about to rollback now 😝

[CrustyPistachio]

Same issue here. Rolling back to v0.107.1 fixed it for me.

Issue occurs with these versions: VS Code: 1.86.0 Remote - SSH: 0.108.0 Remote Explorer: 0.4.1 OS: Windows 10 Pro (22H2)

[Neeham]

Another issue to keep in mind, you may have to downgrade your VSCode to 1.85.2 if the server that you are SSHing to does not meet the minimum linux distribution requirement. I downgraded the extension, could see the targets but could no longer connect to it.

From the latest release notes:

Linux minimum requirements update In this milestone, we have updated the toolchains to build our desktop client. From this release onwards, VS Code desktop is only compatible with Linux distributions based on glibc 2.28 or later, and glibcxx 3.4.25 or later, such as Debian 10, RHEL 8, or Ubuntu 20.04.

If you are unable to upgrade your Linux distribution, the recommended alternative is to use our web client. If you would like to use the desktop version, then you can download the VS Code release 1.85. Depending on your platform, make sure to disable updates to stay on that version. A good recommendation is to set up the installation with Portable Mode.

[tom-ami]

I'm having the same issue and noticed in vscode's process explorer that it is doing DNS lookups for domains specified in my ssh config CanonicalDomains option.

To test if it is linked, I commented out CanonicalizeHostname and CanonicalDomains in my ssh config. This seems to work around the issue and the list of remotes appears again.

Unfortunately I need this setting for other reasons, so it's not really a solution for me.

[rudiservo]

Same here, I got vs code from snap on ubuntu 22.04, no targets appear.

[isidorn]

Update to latest VS Code and this should be fixed. More details here https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/203375

[rudiservo]

Not fixed, I have vscode 1.87 and remote-ssh 0.109, still the same issue.

[hsimonfroy]

Same issue, vscode 1.87 and remote-ssh 0.109.

SSH targets not appearing, and get error: Failed to connect to the remote extension host server (Error: A system error occurred: uv_os_get_passwd returned ENOENT (no such file or directory))

Downgrading to v0.107.1 solves it.

[isidorn]

Let me reopen just in case, and assign to @connor4312

[1a1a11a]

The CanonicalDomains config causes the issue for me