Unable to retrieve extensions

[Abraham-Shomar-AE]

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing issues

OS/Web Information

• Web Browser:
• Local OS:
• Remote OS:
• Remote Architecture:
• code-server --version:

Steps to Reproduce

Error While fetching extensions. Server returned 503

Expected

See the actual extensions and install them

Actual

Error While fetching extensions. Server returned 503

Logs

Screenshot/Video

Does this bug reproduce in native VS Code?

Yes, this is also broken in native VS Code

Does this bug reproduce in GitHub Codespaces?

Yes, this is also broken in GitHub Codespaces

Are you accessing code-server over a secure context?

• I am using a secure context.

Notes

No response

[mirekphd]

Confirmed.

I'm using CLI for these installations, e.g.:
code-server --install-extension streetsidesoftware.code-spell-checker

The HTTP 503 errors started today, later than 07:59:56 CET (last successful installation of any VSC extension).

18:09:38  #47 0.175 streetsidesoftware.code-spell-checker
18:09:39  #47 0.465 Installing extensions...
18:09:40  #47 1.826 Error while installing extensions: Server returned 503
18:09:40  #47 1.828 Server returned 503

... or a more verbose output, but not much more info on the error possible causes:

$ code-server --install-extension streetsidesoftware.code-spell-checker --force --verbose
[2025-04-23T16:50:46.916Z] debug Found VS Code arguments; spawning VS Code CLI
[2025-04-23T16:50:46.917Z] debug Running Code CLI
Installing extensions...
Error while installing extensions: Server returned 503
Server returned 503

... vs. expected:

07:58:42  #23 0.348 streetsidesoftware.code-spell-checker
07:58:42  #23 0.666 Installing extensions...
07:58:44  #23 3.126 Installing extension 'streetsidesoftware.code-spell-checker'...
07:58:48  #23 5.861 Extension 'streetsidesoftware.code-spell-checker' v4.0.47 was successfully installed.

This is a blocker, should get high priority IMO, but may be relatively easy to fix.

[mirekphd]

Seems Open VSX website (https://open-vsx.org/ ) has problems too:

Updated Apr 23 at 11:31am EDT

We are working to resolve an issue with our backend storage that is preventing the service from starting correctly

Updated Apr 23 at 09:45am EDT

Search API went down.

Updated Apr 23 at 09:45am EDT

VSCode Assets API went down.

Updated Apr 23 at 09:45am EDT

Query API went down.

Created Apr 23 at 09:43am EDT

Homepage went down.

[ https://status.open-vsx.org/incident/549742 ]

See: https://status.open-vsx.org/

[dxkrs]

same to me!

[LeanPerez21]

yes, same to me! fix it!!

[mallusrgreatv2]

this is an issue with the vscode marketplace itself i think, nothing coder can do about it

[mehditahmasebi]

This problem is because code-server uses the site https://open-vsx.org for extensions and this site is no longer available. (Application is not available)

[mirekphd]

This problem is because code-server uses the site https://open-vsx.org for extensions and this site is no longer available. (Application is not available)

Only partially true (with respect to Open VSX being used here, not VS Marketplace), but as I mentioned above, the API servers of Open VSX Registry used by code-server went down Apr 23 at 09:45am EDT, and they are working to bring them back up again (I agree that it is taking exceptionally long, so I suppose my prediction about it being a relatively easy problem to fix was wrong: turning it off and on again was not enough this time:).

See https://status.open-vsx.org/ for the current status.

[mirekphd]

A recent update from the Gitlab repo where the Eclipse Foundation [EF] is tracking this issue:

"Martin Lowe
@malowe · 1 hour ago
Reporter

To provide context to anyone finding this, this is linked to our major outage impacting a large amount of the hosted EF services. We are currently working on a solution to bring as many services as we can back up, and you can follow on https://www.eclipsestatus.io/ for updates on the resolution"

[ open-vsx.org service is down ]

[Rob-bb]

[mirekphd]

Good news:

Sébastien Heurtematte
@heurtemattes · 4 hours ago
Reporter

@thomasfroment openvsx is up but in degraded mode for the time being.
Thomas Froment
Thomas Froment
@thomasfroment · 4 hours ago
Author Reporter

@heurtemattes ok, oh nice, thank you... Do you mean we have not enough resources? we should expect performance issues?
Edited 4 hours ago by Thomas Froment
Sébastien Heurtematte
Sébastien Heurtematte
@heurtemattes · 1 hour ago
Reporter
Elastic search is down, so the search feature targets directly the DB.

[ open-vsx.org service is down ]

[mirekphd]

code-server extensions installations from seem to be working fine now!

17:13:42  #47 0.260 
17:13:42  #47 0.260 streetsidesoftware.code-spell-checker
17:13:42  #47 0.556 Installing extensions...
17:13:45  #47 2.976 Installing extension 'streetsidesoftware.code-spell-checker'...
17:13:47  #47 5.678 Extension 'streetsidesoftware.code-spell-checker' v4.0.47 was successfully installed.
17:13:48  #47 5.703 

[aquarat]

Working for me too 😊

[Abraham-Shomar-AE]

Same here! 👍