Terminal > Run Bild Task is not working #7813

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1. Mohammad-AL-Mostafa

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2. code-asher commented on May 22, 2026

   

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   Hmm I am not sure. I experimented with this tasks.json on 4.121.0 (using Firefox):

   {
     "version": "2.0.0",
     "tasks": [
       {
         "label": "echo a test string",
         "type": "shell",
         "command": "echo hello world",
         "group": "build",
         "presentation": {
           "reveal": "always",
           "panel": "new"
         }
       }
     ]
   }

   And it shows up for me when I go to Terminal > Run Task

   

   And when I run it:

   

   I did notice it can take up to 5 seconds for the Run Build Task menu to appear, but my task shows up there too.
3. Mohammad-AL-Mostafa commented on May 22, 2026

   

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   I was trying all day reinstall and I've noticed when i select Terminal > Run Build Tasks it hangs with task bar spinning "Fetching build tasks...", and when I look 'top' command i find a node process eat much processing about 12% and when i kill it the system says
   "The remote extension host terminated unexpectedly. Restarting..." while this moment the Build Tasks menu appears immediately and if dimissed and try to get it back after system fully restore it is spinning again "Fetching build tasks..."!!!

   
4. Mohammad-AL-Mostafa commented on May 22, 2026

   

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   new notices!!!
   the node I kill is keep adding more nodes, so i get the node with lower process number ID and kill it then immediately problem solved and Terminal > Run Build Task work as expected.

   Upon starting the first Ouput "Tasks" what i see is "Activating Task provider java" then I kill the node process then then next line after initializing the extension host is "Activating Task provider all", why it is Java at first then All after killing node, that what i can't figure out!!!

   Initial Load of code server on browser
   the Task provider initially is "Java"
   

   the top command result, i kill the node with lower ID that keep creates crashing nodes with higher IDs
   

   the new Task provider now is "All"

   

   thanks
5. Mohammad-AL-Mostafa commented on May 22, 2026

   

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   even after disabling all Java extensions it is initially hanged up and need to kill the node process then it work fine!!!

   I will keep this as I do till a fix made, thanks
6. Mohammad-AL-Mostafa commented on May 22, 2026

   

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   it is that process
   /home/cs/lib/node --dns-result-order=ipv4first /home/cs/lib/vscode/out/bootstrap-fork --type=extensionHost --transformURIs --useHostProxy=false

   kill -9 $(ps aux | grep "[n]ode.*--type=extensionHost" | awk '{print $2}')
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8. Mohammad-AL-Mostafa commented on May 30, 2026

   

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   still exist on lates release and I have to kill extensionHost and when restarted every thing works fine!!!
   code-server: v4.122.0 Code: 1.122.0 Commit: d98fcd359834687122bdc559922e33a6eee34bff Date: 2026-05-27T14:03:01-07:00 Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/148.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

   $ uname -a Linux server 7.0.10-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sat, 23 May 2026 14:21:20 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux