Drop support for macOS 10.11 and 10.12

[veriotis]

• VS Code Version: 1.56.0
• OS Version: OSX El Capitan 10.11.6

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Try to start Code on OSX 10.11.6 (El Capitan)

Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Yes

See the attached crash_report.txt file
crash_report.txt

[JohnLukeBentley]

I've been getting Visual Studio Code freezes too which may be Electron related.

• OS Version: Windows 10 Pro 64bit, 20H@, 19042.928
• Visual Studio Code: 1.56.0

My symptoms are that VSC works fine for some days then, all of a sudden, freezes on startup. After killing it via task manager rerunning results in a freeze on startup. The uninstaller freezes (so that I can't uninstall it). The installer freezes (so that I can't reinstall it, over an existing install). Another electron based app, Typora, opens but menu command can't work (so Typora sort of freezes too).

Other parts of Window become frozen. For example (Win Search > "Restore" > "Create a restore point" > The "System Properties" Dialog becomes frozen).

Restarting Windows doesn't resolve this. Instead, as a temporary work around, I've had to:

• Restore Windows to an earlier restore point that avoids going through "System properties" (Windows Start > Settings > Update & Security > Recovery > Advanced Start-up [Restart now] > {Once restarted choose to recover from a restore point}); and
• Immediately upon restart uninstall my Electron apps (Visual Studio Code and Typora).

My suspicions are there is some interaction that is causing the freeze, between one or more of the following:

• Electron.
• Windows Update.
• The Powershell extension (this was recently installed).
• The Visual Studio Code terminal (when it tries to load a Powershell session).
• That my version of Powershell is installed via the Store.
• Windows Terminal, Preview edition.

I've tried opening VSC with code --disable-gpu, as advised at https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/supporting/faq#_vs-code-gets-unresponsive-right-after-opening-a-folder. That didn't work. I'm on Nvidia drivers 456.71 with a GTX 1660 TI. And downloading to the latest drivers is something I'm about to do.

These problems occur on one of my machines (my desktop) but not another (my laptop)

So, just as for @veriotis's post, there's not much to go on to help anyone who isn't experiencing a freeze to be able to reproduce the problem. And my freezes might have a different cause to the one @veriotis is experiencing. But hopefully I've provided some clues that someone else experiencing a freeze might pick up on. That is, to help us narrow in on a cause.

[deepak1556]

@veriotis can you attach the crash report following the steps at https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/wiki/Native-Crash-Issues#creating-and-symbolicating-local-crash-reports, thanks!

[deepak1556]

@JohnLukeBentley can you please open a separate issue, I am gonna track this for the crash on macOS 10.11

[JohnLukeBentley]

@deepak1556, I'd be happy to. However, I'd suggest that we'd need, first, to establish they are separate issues. That is, if you find that @veriotis's error is Mac specific then that would make the issues separate. But if you (or we) find that the issue is at the level of Electron/VSC interaction and cross platform, then the issue is not separate.

[deepak1556]

The original issue posted here is a crash on startup due to SIGILL which is different from the issue you are experiencing. To get logs specific to your issue, it is better to track them separately. Thanks for understanding.

[JohnLukeBentley]

@deepak1556, ok noted that they are separate issues (trusting what you can see and without, myself, knowing what SIGILL is). I'll post as separate issue, with logs. But that will occur in the fullness of time: at the moment I'm in the middle of something which requires me to avoid the borking of my machine this issue causes.

[veriotis]

@deepak1556 Here you have the dmp-file based crash report as a zip-file, see the supplied zip attachment.

VSC v1.56.0 always crashes under MacOS 10.11.6 (El Capitan) on startup, no matter if with or without enabled plugins. - The previous version 1.55.x worked fine instead. The MacOS generated crash report always tells that Electron crashes the new v1.56.0!

crash_report-vsc_1.56.0.zip

[veriotis]

@deepak1556

• VS Code Version: 1.56.1
• OS Version: OSX El Capitan 10.11.6
• For the DMP-file see the attached zip file

vsc-1.56.1-crash.zip

It looks like the Electron crash reason is always associated with spdlog.node logging!