Invalid initialization vector

[adiXSG]

Before submitting your bug report

• I believe this is a bug. I'll try to join the Continue Discord for questions
• I'm not able to find an open issue that reports the same bug
• I've seen the troubleshooting guide on the Continue Docs

Relevant environment info

- OS: Windows 11
- Continue version: 1.0.9 (also tried to use 1.0.8 and 1.0.10 pre-release)
- IDE version: VSCode 1.100.1
- Model: 
- config:
  
name: Local Assistant
version: 1.0.0
schema: v1
models: []
context:
  - provider: code
  - provider: docs
  - provider: diff
  - provider: terminal
  - provider: problems
  - provider: folder
  - provider: codebase
  
  OR link to assistant in Continue hub:

Description

Extension stopped working yesterday after a OS restart. When I open the VSCode extension I always get an initialization error:

Invalid initialization vector
TypeError: Invalid initialization vector
	at Decipheriv.createCipherBase (node:internal/crypto/cipher:121:19)
	at Decipheriv.createCipherWithIV (node:internal/crypto/cipher:140:3)
	at new Decipheriv (node:internal/crypto/cipher:289:3)
	at Object.createDecipheriv (node:crypto:155:10)
	at SecretStorage.decrypt (c:\Users\xx\.vscode\extensions\continue.continue-1.0.9-win32-x64\out\extension.js:666172:35)
	at async SecretStorage.get (c:\Users\xx\.vscode\extensions\continue.continue-1.0.9-win32-x64\out\extension.js:666195:26)
	at async _WorkOsAuthProvider.getSessions (c:\Users\xx\.vscode\extensions\continue.continue-1.0.9-win32-x64\out\extension.js:666317:23)
	at async Jb.$getSessions (file:///c:/Program%20Files/Microsoft%20VS%20Code/resources/app/out/vs/workbench/api/node/extensionHostProcess.js:121:3878)

Tried to delete .continue folder, using older and newer versions of the extension but none of them resolves it.

To reproduce

No response

Log output

Invalid initialization vector
TypeError: Invalid initialization vector
	at Decipheriv.createCipherBase (node:internal/crypto/cipher:121:19)
	at Decipheriv.createCipherWithIV (node:internal/crypto/cipher:140:3)
	at new Decipheriv (node:internal/crypto/cipher:289:3)
	at Object.createDecipheriv (node:crypto:155:10)
	at SecretStorage.decrypt (c:\Users\xx\.vscode\extensions\continue.continue-1.0.9-win32-x64\out\extension.js:666172:35)
	at async SecretStorage.get (c:\Users\xx\.vscode\extensions\continue.continue-1.0.9-win32-x64\out\extension.js:666195:26)
	at async _WorkOsAuthProvider.getSessions (c:\Users\xx\.vscode\extensions\continue.continue-1.0.9-win32-x64\out\extension.js:666317:23)
	at async Jb.$getSessions (file:///c:/Program%20Files/Microsoft%20VS%20Code/resources/app/out/vs/workbench/api/node/extensionHostProcess.js:121:3878)

[sestinj]

@adiXSG thanks for sharing this. My best guess is that deleting the ~/.vscode/extensions/continue.continue folder entirely (which would full uninstall) might help.

Otherwise, was there a particular version that caused this issue?

[adiXSG]

@sestinj Thanks for your response. Unfortunately this did not solve the issue.
I've deleted the ~/.vscode and the ~/.continue folder and uninstalled VS Code completely. After reinstalling VS Code and adding the Extension, the error comes up again. I've also tried to use older versions of the extension without success. No idea what I can do further to bring the continue.dev extension back to life. That's annoying because I've just started to love them.

[monkey-di]

I faced the same problem, and a more radical way of clearing all extension data helped me. (please be careful with data, some operations can be unsafe and affect other extensions, so always make backups).

1. Unistall extension and close VS Code.
2. Remove all from these folders:
   C:\Users<YourUsername>\AppData\Roaming\Code\User\workspaceStorage
   C:\Users<YourUsername>.vscode\extensions\continue.continue-*
   C:\Users<YourUsername>.continue
3. Open VS Code and install extension again.

This worked for me, maybe it will help you too. Good luck.

[adiXSG]

@monkey-di deleting C:\Users\<YourUsername>\AppData\Roaming\Code\User\workspaceStorage solved it. Thanks a lot.

[bender316]

Happened to me on Ubuntu too, had to delete /home/<YourUsername>/.config/Code/User/workspaceStorage