PowerShell extension for VSCode Freezing after running a .ps1 file

[msurasky]

System Details

• Operating system name and version
  Windows 10 Version 1709 (OS Build 16299.755)

• VS Code version:
  code - v
  1.29.1
  bc24f98b5f70467bc689abf41cc5550ca637088e
  x64

• PowerShell extension version
  Here are all my extensions together with the versions (where you can see PowerShell extension is at 1.10.1)
  [email protected]
  [email protected]
  [email protected]
  [email protected]
  [email protected]

• Output from $PSVersionTable
  Here is my $PSVersionTable
  PSVersion 5.1.16299.666
  PSEdition Desktop
  PSCompatibleVersions {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0...}
  BuildVersion 10.0.16299.666
  CLRVersion 4.0.30319.42000
  WSManStackVersion 3.0
  PSRemotingProtocolVersion 2.3
  SerializationVersion 1.1.0.1

Issue Description

I am experiencing a problem with the extension. When I load my .ps1 file and hit Debug --> Start Debugging or Debug --> Start without Debugging I sometimes see that VSCode "freezes". The state at which is freezes is when you have the little window on top with the Stop/Pause/Play buttons for the debugger and the little animation of a line moving on the top/left corner of the IDE

After a while, I usually get the message "Debug adapter process has terminated unexpectedly (read error)"

I only manage to run the script by killing the terminal and starting again. Even if I do that, I noticed that more often than not, each other execution (#3 #5 #7, etc) freezes (this is, the "kill terminal" trick only works for one execution and the one following that freezes again).

Expected Behaviour

I would have expected the script to run to completion (there is nothing wrong with the script perse. I have executed it a zillion times in PowerShell IDE)

Actual Behaviour

As mentioned, the VSCode IDE PowerShell extension freezes

Attached Logs

1544458445-3a452c52-d1d8-45d0-aa8e-8af335ab7b631544457258116.zip

[rjmholt]

I've reopened #1634 to track this. We are looking into the issue, but it is complex.

[PrzemyslawKlys]

@rjmholt are you sure 1634 is the same thing? I've seen Debug adapter process has terminated in different circumstances.

[rjmholt]

It may also be #1579. But without knowing what the bug is, I'm not sure.

My feeling is that juggling a number of issues to track what will probably be fixed by a single effort is only going to confuse us. There's a weakness in the debugging part of the code that has been complex enough to go unfixed for some time and we just need to allocate time to clean it up. All these different issues will be related and if they aren't all fixed together, the remaining ones will probably change the way they are expressed anyway.

[PrzemyslawKlys]

Thanks. I will revisit my issues and close some. I've not seen some of them for a while now.