Hard crash (of everything) when debugging nodejs

[chadbr]

• VSCode Version: Version 1.8.1 (1.8.1) - ee428b0 - 2016-12-19T14:40:36.266Z
• OS Version: macos 10.12.2
• Nodejs version: v6.7.0

Steps to Reproduce:

1. open code in empty folder
2. create an app.js with 2 console.writeline() functions
3. set breakpoints
4. go to debug pane, accept default setup
5. press f5 or debug button
6. when breakpoint is hit, press the stop button

On my colleges machine, vscode crashes. On my machine everything crashes (the shell, all applications, everything...) then the shell restarts.

repo gif attached... you don't see the crash because the app recording the gif gets killed...

Anyone else???

[isidorn]

@chadbr I can not reproduce this behavior.

1. Do you see this all the time
2. Do you only see this when debugging Javascript or for all languages
3. Do you also see this when you disable all extensions in vscode
4. Do you see this with VSCode insiders also

ping @weinand for ideas

[chadbr]

@isidorn

1. yes, every time.

for my colleague - this just started. He asked me to try to see if I had the same issues.

He rolled back to the previous version of vscode and had the same result.

I haven't debugged any node code in a while -- so I'm not sure when it started on my machine.

2. only nodejs AFAIK. I debugged both .net core & angular2 tests very recently with no issues.

3. I'll try this today...

4. Same results with the insiders build.

[isidorn]

@weinand might it be that node-debug somehow terminates vscode by accident

@chadbr since this seems to be happening for your celleague and you (nobody else complained) can you distill what do those two machines have in come. Same node version? Same os version? Something special

[chadbr]

@isidorn @weinand

Tried #3 - disabled all plugins - didn't help.

I don't have anything special going on -- typical mac dev box with 500 apps on it :)

I'm happy to let you remote in? or is there some telemetry I can enable or?

[chadbr]

could uninstalling / reinstalling potentially help? any instructions for "cleaning code" from a machine?

I hope to get this working soon - I use code all day every day!

[weinand]

Cannot reproduce either.
console does not have a function writeline(), but this doesn't explain the issue you are seeing...

Please add a trace property to your launch config like this:

		{
			"type": "node",
			"request": "launch",
			"name": "Launch Program",
			"program": "${workspaceRoot}/test.js",
			"cwd": "${workspaceRoot}",
			"trace": "all"
		}

and post the resulting debug console output here.

[weinand]

What happens if you do not press the 'terminate' button but the green 'continue' (play) button instead?

[chadbr]

if I press pause it crashes - let me play with above -

[weinand]

Please try our experimental node2 debugger by changing the value of the type attribute in your launch config to node2. Do you see the same behaviour?

[weinand]

More things you can try (only one at a time):

• reboot your Mac
• install a different version of node, e.g. 6.5
• open the "Console" application and then watch out for any suspicious entries that appear when pressing the 'terminate' button in VS Code.

[weinand]

Inside the VS Code app is a script "terminateProcess.sh" in "/Applications/Visual\ Studio\ Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/extensions/ms-vscode.node-debug/out/node/terminateProcess.sh"
This scripts uses the pgrep command. Do you have a different pgrep command installed on your system?
If you don't know you could rename the "terminateProcess.sh" temporarily so that VS Code will not find it any more. Does the crash still occur?