Unable to run any tasks on a remote windows machine using openssh

[iihmsunn]

I'm connecting to a Windows 10 machine from a Linux host. Connection is successful, project is opened, terminal is working properly.
I'm using powershell 7 installed in Program Files.

However, if I launch any task, I'm getting the following error:

The terminal process failed to launch: A native exception occurred during launch (Unable to start terminal process: CreateProcess failed).

So far I tried following:

1. changing the terminal.integrated.automationShell.windows setting. I tried "cmd", "pwsh", "powershell" and the full path to git bash, same result. I can tell the setting is applied because I can get "not found" error if I set the wrong path.
2. setting default openssh shell to the same pwsh.exe that is used for tasks and terminal, didn't help.

I also tried changing terminal.integrated.profiles.windows and terminal.integrated.defaultProfile.windows but apparently they're irrelevant here.

Edit: I tried tasks with "shell", "process" and "gulp" types, none worked

[tanhakabir]

@meganrogge or @Tyriar do you guys have an idea of why this error happened?

[meganrogge]

which version are you on? did this start happening recently?

cc @alexr00

[meganrogge]

I see CreateProcess failed is a winpty error

[meganrogge]

Can you share your settings.json file and also do a trace log while creating a terminal? https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/wiki/Terminal-Issues#enabling-trace-logging

[iihmsunn]

I'm trying this for the first time so I don't have experience of this working.
Versions I can think of:
vscode 1.62.3
remote - ssh 0.66.1
current endeavorOS/arch linux
windows 10 21h2
powershell 7.2

openssh installed recently using

Add-WindowsCapability -Online -Name OpenSSH.Server~~~~0.0.1.0

this seems to be the log part

[2021-12-03 04:44:36.758] [renderer1] [trace] KeybindingService#dispatch Alt+T undefined
[2021-12-03 04:44:36.775] [renderer1] [trace] Layout#layout, height: 994, width: 1920
[2021-12-03 04:44:37.801] [renderer1] [trace] CommandService#executeCommand workbench.action.tasks.runTask
[2021-12-03 04:44:37.802] [renderer1] [trace] onWillActivateByEvent: onCommand:workbench.action.tasks.runTask
[2021-12-03 04:44:37.802] [renderer1] [trace] Layout#layout, height: 1019, width: 1920
[2021-12-03 04:44:38.090] [renderer1] [trace] CommandService#executeCommand setContext
[2021-12-03 04:44:43.785] [renderer1] [trace] terminalInstance#ctor (instanceId: 5) {"name":"build (tumarket)","description":"Task","executable":"pwsh","args":"/d /c msbuild ./src/TuMarket/TuMarket.Web/Web.csproj /t:build /v:m","waitOnExit":"Terminal will be reused by tasks, press any key to close it.","initialText":"\u001b[1m> Executing task in folder tumarket: msbuild ./src/TuMarket/TuMarket.Web/Web.csproj /t:build /v:m <\u001b[0m\n","cwd":{"$mid":1,"path":"/\work\projects\tumarket","scheme":"vscode-remote","authority":"ssh-remote+win"},"isFeatureTerminal":true,"useShellEnvironment":true,"icon":{"id":"tools"}}
[2021-12-03 04:44:43.878] [renderer1] [trace] Stopped polling vscode-remote://ssh-remote%2Bwin/c%3A/Users/oleg/.vscode-server/data/logs/20211203T044130/exthost2/output_logging_20211203T044333/5-Razor%20Log.log
[2021-12-03 04:44:44.415] [renderer1] [trace] CommandService#executeCommand setContext
[2021-12-03 04:44:44.468] [renderer1] [trace] Spawning remote agent process {"terminalId":9}
[2021-12-03 04:44:46.858] [renderer1] [debug] Terminal process exit (instanceId: 5) with code undefined
[2021-12-03 04:44:46.858] [renderer1] [debug] Terminal process exit (instanceId: 5) state 3
[2021-12-03 04:44:50.151] [renderer1] [trace] KeybindingService#dispatch Space undefined
[2021-12-03 04:44:50.152] [renderer1] [trace] terminalInstance#dispose (instanceId: 5)
[2021-12-03 04:44:50.425] [renderer1] [trace] CommandService#executeCommand setContext

this is the settings.json

{
  "mssql.connections": [
    {
      //skipped
    }
  ],
  "editor.minimap.enabled": false,
  "window.menuBarVisibility": "toggle",
  "terminal.integrated.profiles.windows": {
    "PowerShell -NoProfile": {
      "source": "PowerShell",
      "args": [
        "-NoProfile"
      ]
    },
    "pwsh1": {
      "path": "pwsh.exe",
      "args": []
    }
  },
  "terminal.integrated.defaultProfile.windows": "PowerShell",
  "terminal.integrated.automationShell.windows": "pwsh"
}

[iihmsunn]

I also tried adding

"terminal.integrated.windowsEnableConpty": true

nothing changed

[meganrogge]

thanks for that info. Looks like the process was killed during launch, likely as a result of bad shell args.

Looks like your shell args are "/d /c msbuild ./src/TuMarket/TuMarket.Web/Web.csproj /t:build /v:m"

Which task are you trying to run?

[iihmsunn]

This is a task that builds a .net 4.7 project. It works when I normally run it on windows.
I also tried running a gulp task and a task that only runs a powershell script and they cause the same error.

[iihmsunn]

btw "/d /c" part is something appended automatically, i imagine that's always the case

these are the tasks

{
    "label": "build",
    "type": "shell",
    "command": "msbuild",
    "args": [
        "./src/TuMarket/TuMarket.Web/Web.csproj",
        "/t:build",
        "/v:m"
    ],
    "group": "build",
    "presentation": {
        "reveal": "always"
    },
    "problemMatcher": "$msCompile"
},
{
    "label": "setPortableDebugType",
    "command": "powershell",
    "args": [
        ".vscode/setPortableDebugType.ps1"
    ],
    "type": "shell",
    "problemMatcher": []
},
{
    "type": "gulp",
    "task": "watch-tumarket-bundle",
    "label": "gulp: watch-tumarket-bundle",
    "problemMatcher": [
        "$gulp-tsc"
    ]
}