<p dir="auto">If I run VSCode as <strong>root</strong> from bash on Ubuntu/Xubuntu/Lubuntu/Kubuntu it doesn't respond on startup.<br>
This problem occurred on fresh installs, in VMs, on both of my devices.<br>
However running a quick <code class="notranslate">chown -R root:root /</code> fixed the problem (It is a local VM, so whatever).<br>
[Disclaimer: Know what you do, do not copy paste that into your terminal]</p>
<p dir="auto">Anyone else experienced the same on a Ubuntu based distro lately? On Debian/Arch it works just fine.</p>
<p dir="auto">BTW: I couldn't install the omnisharp plugin for Atom because of the exact same reason.</p>
<p dir="auto">jay@jay-virtual-machine:<del>/Desktop$ sudo code<br>
bash: cannot set terminal process group (-1): Inappropriate ioctl for device<br>
bash: no job control in this shell<br>
ATTENTION: default value of option force_s3tc_enable overridden by environment.<br>
[VS Code]: detected unresponsive<br>
[VS Code]: detected unresponsive<br>
jay@jay-virtual-machine:</del>/Desktop$ events.js:141<br>
throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event<br>
^</p>
<p dir="auto">Error: channel closed<br>
at process.target.send (internal/child_process.js:509:16)<br>
at /usr/local/vscode/resources/app/out/vs/workbench/node/pluginHostProcess.js:20:9562<br>
at t (/usr/local/vscode/resources/app/out/vs/workbench/node/pluginHostProcess.js:11:18479)<br>
at Object.callOnRemote (/usr/local/vscode/resources/app/out/vs/workbench/node/pluginHostProcess.js:11:18413)<br>
at Object.onUnexpectedPluginHostError (/usr/local/vscode/resources/app/out/vs/workbench/node/pluginHostProcess.js:4:9764)<br>
at e.unexpectedErrorHandler (/usr/local/vscode/resources/app/out/vs/workbench/node/pluginHostProcess.js:19:17071)<br>
at e.onUnexpectedError (/usr/local/vscode/resources/app/out/vs/workbench/node/pluginHostProcess.js:7:17878)<br>
at Object.u <a href="/usr/local/vscode/resources/app/out/vs/workbench/node/pluginHostProcess.js:7:15312">as onUnexpectedError</a><br>
at process. (/usr/local/vscode/resources/app/out/vs/workbench/node/pluginHostProcess.js:20:9853)<br>
at emitOne (events.js:82:20)</p>