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[Gemini Code Assist] CRITICAL BUG: Persistent 512MB String Crash (0x1ffffe8) Tied to Single User Account Profile

Open lupodellasleppa opened this issue 3 months ago • 9 comments

What happened?

Gemini Code Assist stuck, same as https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/issues/10918 but I went a little bit deeper. I am pasting a summary down below which I came up with Gemini after hours of debugging together (and on my own).

Basically, my gemini icon is always red, and Gemini Code Assist won't work at all.

I am logged in with a personal account (not workspace account) but I always get the profile settings prefilled with quadratic-aurora-bxnz0. It's always the same project ID, which is not mine (and really looks autogenerated). If I take that out from settings, it comes right back in. I have reset all there is to reset and even performed a fresh install and deleted my vscode cloud settings, so that's not coming back from other settings somewhere.

The issue is that I always have this error

Cannot create a string longer than 0x1fffffe8 characters

in my gemini code assist runtime status. And I believe that comes from a very big response gemini code assist tried to give me some days back. In fact, it was working fine before then.

I went on a hunt for any gemini or google related files on my filesystem, and either deleted or renamed all of them.

I also deleted the ~/.cache/google-vscode-extension, which made me able to sign in again with a different account, and see that it works with the other account (though it's a workspace account so it's unusable).

At this point, I am certain the issue is with a Gemini Code Assist's very big message for me in Google's servers. Too bad I don't have access to those.

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Oh by the way, I'm on the AI Pro subscription, so I'm actually paying for it not to work. And the customer service proved to be useless.

What did you expect to happen?

That Gemini Code Assist would be aware of a message exceeding payload and be able to destroy it by itself.

Client information

Client Information

Run gemini to enter the interactive CLI, then run the /about command.

> /about
# paste output here

Login information

No response

Anything else we need to know?

The Gemini Code Assist extension is unusable due to a persistent V8 string size limit error (Cannot create a string longer than 0x1ffffe8 characters). This error occurs immediately after logging in with my primary (paying) Google Account.

I have definitively proven this is a server-side bug.

The Evidence:

Isolation Test (Final Proof): Logging in with Account B (a workspace account) results in the correct "ineligible" message. Logging in with Account A (my paying personal account) results in the 512MB crash. The error is tied to the payload returned by the server for Account A.

Local File Analysis (The Smoking Gun): I checked the largest files in my local VS Code config directory (~/.config/Code/User). The largest file is 15MB. The error requires a 512MB string. The corrupt data is NOT on my local disk.

Complete Local Purge Performed: I have deleted/hidden every local config file (including ~/.config/Code, ~/.cache/Code, ~/.vscode, ~/.config/gcloud, ~/.cache/google-vscode-extension, and cleared the OS keyring) multiple times.

Request: Please escalate this to the backend team. A corrupt, massive string (likely a stuck prompt or cache) is stored in my user profile metadata on your server. This needs to be located and purged from the database immediately.

lupodellasleppa avatar Nov 18 '25 18:11 lupodellasleppa

Found possible duplicate issues:

  • #10918

If you believe this is not a duplicate, please remove the status/possible-duplicate label.

gemini-cli[bot] avatar Nov 18 '25 18:11 gemini-cli[bot]

Does downgrading to version v2.57.0 resolves the issue for you or does it persist even with downgrading?

alisa-alisa avatar Nov 19 '25 07:11 alisa-alisa

Steps you could try if possible:

  1. Logout of the extension if possible. Uninstall extension if possible.
  2. Remove all settings from the settings.json files (user, workspace...) related to geminicodeassist (all geminicodeassist.* settings).
  3. Add a setting "geminicodeassist.verboseLogging": true to settings.json.
  4. Try to login to extension/install and login to extension and observe the reported error.
  5. Go to output window and copy-paste in a reply comment all available outputs (Gemini Code Assist Debug, Gemini Code Assist, Gemini Code Assist Agent).

Thanks!

alisa-alisa avatar Nov 19 '25 07:11 alisa-alisa

Does downgrading to version v2.57.0 resolves the issue for you or does it persist even with downgrading?

Yes, I have tried going back versions one by one all the way up to 2.55.0

  1. Logout of the extension if possible. Uninstall extension if possible.
  2. Remove all settings from the settings.json files (user, workspace...) related to geminicodeassist (all geminicodeassist.* settings).
  3. Add a setting "geminicodeassist.verboseLogging": true to settings.json.
  4. Try to login to extension/install and login to extension and observe the reported error.
  5. Go to output window and copy-paste in a reply comment all available outputs (Gemini Code Assist Debug, Gemini Code Assist, Gemini Code Assist Agent).
  • I have renamed my ~/.config/Code to ~/.config/Old, ~/.vscode to ~/.vscode.old and deleted ~/.cache/Code and ~/.cache/google-vscode-extension. I believe this brings me to a clean session.
  • I have put the string for logging in my user settings.
  • Installed the extension.
  • Added google.com to the list of trusted domains.

I am now in the state I described in the issue. Red Gemini icon. Sign in spinner spinning indefinitely. Error with project quadratic-aurora-bxnz0 (which I repeat I have no idea what it is).

Logs:

Gemini Code Assist Debug

[11/19/2025, 6:32:00 PM] [INFO]: Verbose logging enabled
[11/19/2025, 6:32:00 PM] [INFO]: Gemini CodeAssist version 2.58.1
[11/19/2025, 6:32:00 PM] [INFO]: No workspace folders found.
[11/19/2025, 6:32:00 PM] [INFO]: No workspace folders found.
[11/19/2025, 6:32:00 PM] [INFO]: Handling content exclusion file changes and firing event...
[11/19/2025, 6:32:00 PM] [INFO]: Reading AI content exclusion file: .aiexclude
[11/19/2025, 6:32:00 PM] [INFO]: No workspace folders found.
[11/19/2025, 6:32:00 PM] [INFO]: Startup phase BuildContext starting
[11/19/2025, 6:32:00 PM] [INFO]: Reading AI content exclusion file: .gitignore
[11/19/2025, 6:32:00 PM] [INFO]: No workspace folders found.
[11/19/2025, 6:32:00 PM] [INFO]: Content exclusion file changes handled and event fired.
[11/19/2025, 6:32:00 PM] [INFO]: AIExcludeProvider initialized.
[11/19/2025, 6:32:00 PM] [INFO]: Startup phase BuildContext finished in 2ms
[11/19/2025, 6:32:00 PM] [INFO]: Startup phase Activate starting
[11/19/2025, 6:32:00 PM] [INFO]: Startup phase Activate.Preactivate starting
[11/19/2025, 6:32:00 PM] [INFO]: Startup phase Activate.Preactivate finished in 31ms
[11/19/2025, 6:32:00 PM] [INFO]: Startup phase Activate.StartExperimentation starting
[11/19/2025, 6:32:00 PM] [INFO]: Activating plugin Gemini Code Assist
[11/19/2025, 6:32:00 PM] [INFO]: Enabled the Gemini Code Assist context hint provider
[11/19/2025, 6:32:00 PM] [INFO]: Activating plugin Local agent
[11/19/2025, 6:32:00 PM] [INFO]: Activating plugin MCP Server
[11/19/2025, 6:32:00 PM] [INFO]: Startup phase Activate.StartExperimentation.PluginActivate starting
[11/19/2025, 6:32:00 PM] [INFO]: Startup phase Activate.StartExperimentation.PluginActivate.GlobalActivate starting
[11/19/2025, 6:32:00 PM] [INFO]: Done activating plugin Local agent, took 0.38813000000664033ms
[11/19/2025, 6:32:00 PM] [INFO]: Done activating plugin MCP Server, took 0.730952999991132ms
[11/19/2025, 6:32:00 PM] [INFO]: Startup phase Activate.StartExperimentation finished in 5ms
[11/19/2025, 6:32:00 PM] [INFO]: Done activating plugin Gemini Code Assist, took 10.261696999994456ms
[11/19/2025, 6:32:00 PM] [INFO]: Startup phase Activate.StartExperimentation.PluginActivate finished in 9ms
[11/19/2025, 6:32:00 PM] [INFO]: Startup phase Activate.GcloudStateContext starting
[11/19/2025, 6:32:00 PM] [INFO]: Startup phase Activate.GcloudStateContext finished in 0ms
[11/19/2025, 6:32:00 PM] [INFO]: Startup phase Activate.CheckUpdate starting
[11/19/2025, 6:32:00 PM] [INFO]: Startup phase Activate.CheckUpdate finished in 5ms
[11/19/2025, 6:32:00 PM] [INFO]: Startup phase Activate.GcaWelcome starting
[11/19/2025, 6:32:00 PM] [INFO]: Startup phase Activate.GcaWelcome finished in 0ms
[11/19/2025, 6:32:00 PM] [INFO]: Startup phase Activate.StartExperimentation.PluginActivate.GlobalActivate finished in 19ms
[11/19/2025, 6:32:00 PM] [INFO]: Startup phase Activate.Postactivate starting
[11/19/2025, 6:32:00 PM] [INFO]: Startup phase Activate.Postactivate finished in 0ms
[11/19/2025, 6:32:00 PM] [INFO]: Generating listings...
[11/19/2025, 6:32:00 PM] [INFO]: Startup phase Activate finished in 53ms
[11/19/2025, 6:32:00 PM] [INFO]: Extension activated
[11/19/2025, 6:37:24 PM] [TRACE]: Executing command cloudcode.gke.runGcloudAuth.
[11/19/2025, 6:37:24 PM] [INFO]: Login requested
[11/19/2025, 6:37:28 PM] [INFO]: Login opened browser
[11/19/2025, 6:37:41 PM] [INFO]: Received callback request/oauth2redirect?state=f71438ea-3e83-4b7e-a081-ff605d00cb00&code=4/0Ab32j91cBdu2HTjrLdcpfnMYe6xxhn_br6z79c9dy7xbqAtWA8vJCsw0Ozog1jg8nJG6bg&scope=email%20profile%20https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform%20https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.email%20https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.profile%20openid&authuser=0&prompt=consent
[11/19/2025, 6:37:41 PM] [INFO]: Passing exchange token to oauth processor
[11/19/2025, 6:37:41 PM] [INFO]: Received exchange token, processing Login credentials
[11/19/2025, 6:37:42 PM] [INFO]: Token exchange successful, storing token in long term storage
[11/19/2025, 6:37:42 PM] [TRACE]: Command cloudcode.gke.runGcloudAuth done in 17370.404853000015ms.
[11/19/2025, 6:37:42 PM] [INFO]: Checking language server extraction from /home/lupodellasleppa/.vscode/extensions/google.geminicodeassist-2.58.1/cloudcode_cli.zip - linux_amd64/cloudcode_cli
[11/19/2025, 6:37:42 PM] [INFO]: Client experimentation flags: {
  enableQuickpickChat: true,
  enableCallToAction: false,
  enableGdpUpgradeFlow: false,
  enableCodeTransformM2Features: true,
  enableFeedbackBlock: false,
  enableAdminCitationBlock: false,
  enableFirebaseDataConnectChatTool: false,
  enableStandardTierEasyOnboarding: true,
  enableFlashCompletionsClientPostprocessing: false,
  enableChatFolderContextSelection: true,
  enableEventsPipelinePolling: false,
  completionReplacesCursorLine: false,
  enableFullCodebaseAwarenessChat: true,
  generationPaneViewDefaultConfig: false,
  enableApigeeGeminiChatTool: true,
  enableMcpServer: false,
  enableAdminTelemetryBlock: false,
  enableCloudCodeTelemetry: true,
  enableMockServer: true,
  enableG1UpgradeFlow: true,
  enableNextEditEllipsis: false,
  enableLocalAgent: true,
  enableGenerationPaneView: false,
  enableFlashCompletions: false,
  enableAICharsPercentage: true,
  enableChatAgenticMcpChat: false,
  enableAgentBoard: false,
  enableFreeTier: true,
  enableNextEdit: false,
  enableStructuredCodeEdits: true,
  enableCustomSlashCommands: true,
  showRegenerateChatRequestButton: true,
  enableAICharactersTelemetryCCPA: true,
  enableFreeTierIneligbilityReason: true,
  showDeleteChatRequestButton: true,
  showEditChatRequestButton: true,
  enableCodeCustomizationWebview: true,
  showApplyAllChangesButton: true,
  enableRemoteRepositoriesContext: true,
  enableInlineDiff: true,
  enableCodeCustomizationLearnMoreMessage: true,
  enableChatCheckpoints: true,
  codeCompletionsDebounceMs: '550',
  currentTierPollingIntervalMs: '43200000',
  eventsPipelinePollingIntervalMs: '60000',
  licenseMessageFrequencyDays: '60'
}
[11/19/2025, 6:37:42 PM] [ERROR]: callClient: client not ready
[11/19/2025, 6:37:43 PM] [INFO]: Code path to binaries for linux => /usr/share/code/bin
[11/19/2025, 6:37:43 PM] [INFO]: Skipping updating LS experimentation flags since LS is not ready.
[11/19/2025, 6:37:43 PM] [ERROR]: callClient: client not ready
[11/19/2025, 6:37:43 PM] [INFO]: No project selected, skipping Code Customization Enabled message
[11/19/2025, 6:37:43 PM] [ERROR]: callClient: client not ready
[11/19/2025, 6:37:43 PM] [INFO]: Resetting path to /usr/share/code/bin:/data/tools/pyenv/shims:/data/tools/pyenv/bin:/home/lupodellasleppa/bin:/data/tools/pyenv/bin:/data/tools/google-cloud-sql-proxy/bin:/home/lupodellasleppa/.local/share/pnpm:/data/tools/poetry//bin:/data/tools/nvm/versions/node/v24.3.0/bin:/data/tools/pyenv/bin:/home/lupodellasleppa/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin:/snap/bin
[11/19/2025, 6:37:43 PM] [INFO]: running /usr/share/code/code, /home/lupodellasleppa/.vscode/extensions/google.geminicodeassist-2.58.1/agent/a2a-server.mjs with {"AUTOENV_ENV_FILENAME":".autoenv","CHROME_DESKTOP":"code.desktop","CLUTTER_DISABLE_MIPMAPPED_TEXT":"1","DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS":"unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus","DEBUGINFOD_URLS":"https://debuginfod.ubuntu.com ","DESKTOP_SESSION":"gnome","DISPLAY":":0","GDK_BACKEND":"x11","GDMSESSION":"gnome","GIO_LAUNCHED_DESKTOP_FILE":"/usr/share/applications/code.desktop","GIO_LAUNCHED_DESKTOP_FILE_PID":"20195","GJS_DEBUG_OUTPUT":"stderr","GJS_DEBUG_TOPICS":"JS ERROR;JS LOG","GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID":"this-is-deprecated","GNOME_SETUP_DISPLAY":":1","GSM_SKIP_SSH_AGENT_WORKAROUND":"true","GTK_MODULES":"gail:atk-bridge","HOME":"/home/lupodellasleppa","IM_CONFIG_CHECK_ENV":"1","IM_CONFIG_PHASE":"1","INVOCATION_ID":"6071472b420d4706b4b233e6d0b61a34","IOTTLY_K8S_CONFIG_DEV_ENV_NAME":"microk8s","IOTTLY_K8S_HOME":"/home/lupodellasleppa/work/clients/td/iottly","IOTTLY_K8S_ROOT":"/home/lupodellasleppa/work/clients/td/iottly/iottly-k8s","JOURNAL_STREAM":"9:19124","LANG":"en_US.UTF-8","LESSCLOSE":"/usr/bin/lesspipe %s %s","LESSOPEN":"| /usr/bin/lesspipe %s","LOGNAME":"lupodellasleppa","MANAGERPID":"2918","MEMORY_PRESSURE_WATCH":"/sys/fs/cgroup/user.slice/user-1000.slice/[email protected]/session.slice/[email protected]/memory.pressure","MEMORY_PRESSURE_WRITE":"c29tZSAyMDAwMDAgMjAwMDAwMAA=","NVM_BIN":"/data/tools/nvm/versions/node/v24.3.0/bin","NVM_DIR":"/data/tools/nvm","NVM_INC":"/data/tools/nvm/versions/node/v24.3.0/include/node","OLDPWD":"/home/lupodellasleppa","ORIGINAL_XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP":"GNOME","PATH":"/usr/share/code/bin:/data/tools/pyenv/shims:/data/tools/pyenv/bin:/home/lupodellasleppa/bin:/data/tools/pyenv/bin:/data/tools/google-cloud-sql-proxy/bin:/home/lupodellasleppa/.local/share/pnpm:/data/tools/poetry//bin:/data/tools/nvm/versions/node/v24.3.0/bin:/data/tools/pyenv/bin:/home/lupodellasleppa/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin:/snap/bin","PNPM_HOME":"/home/lupodellasleppa/.local/share/pnpm","POETRY_HOME":"/data/tools/poetry/","PWD":"/home/lupodellasleppa","PYENV_ROOT":"/data/tools/pyenv","PYENV_SHELL":"bash","QT_ACCESSIBILITY":"1","QT_IM_MODULE":"ibus","SESSION_MANAGER":"local/kintoun-50:@/tmp/.ICE-unix/3467,unix/kintoun-50:/tmp/.ICE-unix/3467","SHELL":"/bin/bash","SHLVL":"0","SSH_AUTH_SOCK":"/run/user/1000/keyring/ssh","SYSTEMD_EXEC_PID":"3542","USER":"lupodellasleppa","USERNAME":"lupodellasleppa","VSCODE_CODE_CACHE_PATH":"/home/lupodellasleppa/.config/Code/CachedData/cb1933bbc38d329b3595673a600fab5c7368f0a7","VSCODE_CRASH_REPORTER_PROCESS_TYPE":"extensionHost","VSCODE_CWD":"/home/lupodellasleppa","VSCODE_ESM_ENTRYPOINT":"vs/workbench/api/node/extensionHostProcess","VSCODE_HANDLES_UNCAUGHT_ERRORS":"true","VSCODE_IPC_HOOK":"/run/user/1000/vscode-3ca6492e-1.10-main.sock","VSCODE_NLS_CONFIG":"{\"userLocale\":\"en-us\",\"osLocale\":\"en-us\",\"resolvedLanguage\":\"en\",\"defaultMessagesFile\":\"/usr/share/code/resources/app/out/nls.messages.json\",\"locale\":\"en-us\",\"availableLanguages\":{}}","VSCODE_PID":"20195","WAYLAND_DISPLAY":"wayland-0","XAUTHORITY":"/run/user/1000/.mutter-Xwaylandauth.FK4XF3","XDG_CONFIG_DIRS":"/etc/xdg/xdg-gnome:/etc/xdg","XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP":"GNOME","XDG_DATA_DIRS":"/usr/share/gnome:/home/lupodellasleppa/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share:/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/:/var/lib/snapd/desktop","XDG_MENU_PREFIX":"gnome-","XDG_RUNTIME_DIR":"/run/user/1000","XDG_SESSION_CLASS":"user","XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP":"gnome","XDG_SESSION_TYPE":"wayland","XMODIFIERS":"@im=ibus","_":"/usr/share/code/code","ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE":"1","VSCODE_L10N_BUNDLE_LOCATION":"","GEMINI_YOLO_MODE":"false","DEBUG":"false","SURFACE":"VSCode","USE_CCPA":"1","GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS":"/home/lupodellasleppa/.cache/google-vscode-extension/auth/application_default_credentials.json"}
[11/19/2025, 6:37:43 PM] [INFO]: Get to https://cloudcode-pa.googleapis.com/v1internal:loadCodeAssist response: {"currentTier":{"id":"standard-tier","name":"Gemini Code Assist","description":"Unlimited coding assistant with the most powerful Gemini models","userDefinedCloudaicompanionProject":true,"privacyNotice":{},"quotaTier":"standard-tier"},"allowedTiers":[{"id":"standard-tier","name":"Gemini Code Assist","description":"Unlimited coding assistant with the most powerful Gemini models","userDefinedCloudaicompanionProject":true,"privacyNotice":{},"isDefault":true,"quotaTier":"standard-tier"}],"cloudaicompanionProject":"quadratic-aurora-bxnz0","gcpManaged":false,"manageSubscriptionUri":"https://accounts.google.com/AccountChooser?Email=lupodellasleppa%40gmail.com&continue=https%3A%2F%2Fone.google.com%2Fsettings"}, headers: {"x-cloudaicompanion-trace-id":["3d5a3f48d43a870"],"content-type":["application/json; charset=UTF-8"],"vary":["Origin, X-Origin, Referer"],"content-encoding":["gzip"],"date":["Wed, 19 Nov 2025 17:37:43 GMT"],"server":["ESF"],"x-xss-protection":["0"],"x-frame-options":["SAMEORIGIN"],"x-content-type-options":["nosniff"],"server-timing":["gfet5t7;dur=282, gfet4t7; dur=515"],"alt-svc":["h3=\":443\"; ma=2592000,h3-29=\":443\"; ma=2592000"],"connection":["close"],"transfer-encoding":["chunked"]}
[11/19/2025, 6:37:43 PM] [INFO]: LoadCodeAssistResponse: {"currentTier":{"id":"standard-tier","name":"Gemini Code Assist","description":"Unlimited coding assistant with the most powerful Gemini models","userDefinedCloudaicompanionProject":true,"privacyNotice":{},"quotaTier":"standard-tier"},"allowedTiers":[{"id":"standard-tier","name":"Gemini Code Assist","description":"Unlimited coding assistant with the most powerful Gemini models","userDefinedCloudaicompanionProject":true,"privacyNotice":{},"isDefault":true,"quotaTier":"standard-tier"}],"cloudaicompanionProject":"quadratic-aurora-bxnz0","gcpManaged":false,"manageSubscriptionUri":"https://accounts.google.com/AccountChooser?Email=lupodellasleppa%40gmail.com&continue=https%3A%2F%2Fone.google.com%2Fsettings"}
[11/19/2025, 6:37:43 PM] [ERROR]: callClient: client not ready
[11/19/2025, 6:37:43 PM] [INFO]: Code path to binaries for linux => /usr/share/code/bin
[11/19/2025, 6:37:43 PM] [ERROR]: callClient: client not ready
[11/19/2025, 6:37:43 PM] [INFO]: Resetting path to /usr/share/code/bin:/data/tools/pyenv/shims:/data/tools/pyenv/bin:/home/lupodellasleppa/bin:/data/tools/pyenv/bin:/data/tools/google-cloud-sql-proxy/bin:/home/lupodellasleppa/.local/share/pnpm:/data/tools/poetry//bin:/data/tools/nvm/versions/node/v24.3.0/bin:/data/tools/pyenv/bin:/home/lupodellasleppa/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin:/snap/bin
[11/19/2025, 6:37:43 PM] [INFO]: running /usr/share/code/code, /home/lupodellasleppa/.vscode/extensions/google.geminicodeassist-2.58.1/agent/a2a-server.mjs with {"AUTOENV_ENV_FILENAME":".autoenv","CHROME_DESKTOP":"code.desktop","CLUTTER_DISABLE_MIPMAPPED_TEXT":"1","DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS":"unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus","DEBUGINFOD_URLS":"https://debuginfod.ubuntu.com ","DESKTOP_SESSION":"gnome","DISPLAY":":0","GDK_BACKEND":"x11","GDMSESSION":"gnome","GIO_LAUNCHED_DESKTOP_FILE":"/usr/share/applications/code.desktop","GIO_LAUNCHED_DESKTOP_FILE_PID":"20195","GJS_DEBUG_OUTPUT":"stderr","GJS_DEBUG_TOPICS":"JS ERROR;JS LOG","GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID":"this-is-deprecated","GNOME_SETUP_DISPLAY":":1","GSM_SKIP_SSH_AGENT_WORKAROUND":"true","GTK_MODULES":"gail:atk-bridge","HOME":"/home/lupodellasleppa","IM_CONFIG_CHECK_ENV":"1","IM_CONFIG_PHASE":"1","INVOCATION_ID":"6071472b420d4706b4b233e6d0b61a34","IOTTLY_K8S_CONFIG_DEV_ENV_NAME":"microk8s","IOTTLY_K8S_HOME":"/home/lupodellasleppa/work/clients/td/iottly","IOTTLY_K8S_ROOT":"/home/lupodellasleppa/work/clients/td/iottly/iottly-k8s","JOURNAL_STREAM":"9:19124","LANG":"en_US.UTF-8","LESSCLOSE":"/usr/bin/lesspipe %s %s","LESSOPEN":"| /usr/bin/lesspipe %s","LOGNAME":"lupodellasleppa","MANAGERPID":"2918","MEMORY_PRESSURE_WATCH":"/sys/fs/cgroup/user.slice/user-1000.slice/[email protected]/session.slice/[email protected]/memory.pressure","MEMORY_PRESSURE_WRITE":"c29tZSAyMDAwMDAgMjAwMDAwMAA=","NVM_BIN":"/data/tools/nvm/versions/node/v24.3.0/bin","NVM_DIR":"/data/tools/nvm","NVM_INC":"/data/tools/nvm/versions/node/v24.3.0/include/node","OLDPWD":"/home/lupodellasleppa","ORIGINAL_XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP":"GNOME","PATH":"/usr/share/code/bin:/data/tools/pyenv/shims:/data/tools/pyenv/bin:/home/lupodellasleppa/bin:/data/tools/pyenv/bin:/data/tools/google-cloud-sql-proxy/bin:/home/lupodellasleppa/.local/share/pnpm:/data/tools/poetry//bin:/data/tools/nvm/versions/node/v24.3.0/bin:/data/tools/pyenv/bin:/home/lupodellasleppa/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin:/snap/bin","PNPM_HOME":"/home/lupodellasleppa/.local/share/pnpm","POETRY_HOME":"/data/tools/poetry/","PWD":"/home/lupodellasleppa","PYENV_ROOT":"/data/tools/pyenv","PYENV_SHELL":"bash","QT_ACCESSIBILITY":"1","QT_IM_MODULE":"ibus","SESSION_MANAGER":"local/kintoun-50:@/tmp/.ICE-unix/3467,unix/kintoun-50:/tmp/.ICE-unix/3467","SHELL":"/bin/bash","SHLVL":"0","SSH_AUTH_SOCK":"/run/user/1000/keyring/ssh","SYSTEMD_EXEC_PID":"3542","USER":"lupodellasleppa","USERNAME":"lupodellasleppa","VSCODE_CODE_CACHE_PATH":"/home/lupodellasleppa/.config/Code/CachedData/cb1933bbc38d329b3595673a600fab5c7368f0a7","VSCODE_CRASH_REPORTER_PROCESS_TYPE":"extensionHost","VSCODE_CWD":"/home/lupodellasleppa","VSCODE_ESM_ENTRYPOINT":"vs/workbench/api/node/extensionHostProcess","VSCODE_HANDLES_UNCAUGHT_ERRORS":"true","VSCODE_IPC_HOOK":"/run/user/1000/vscode-3ca6492e-1.10-main.sock","VSCODE_NLS_CONFIG":"{\"userLocale\":\"en-us\",\"osLocale\":\"en-us\",\"resolvedLanguage\":\"en\",\"defaultMessagesFile\":\"/usr/share/code/resources/app/out/nls.messages.json\",\"locale\":\"en-us\",\"availableLanguages\":{}}","VSCODE_PID":"20195","WAYLAND_DISPLAY":"wayland-0","XAUTHORITY":"/run/user/1000/.mutter-Xwaylandauth.FK4XF3","XDG_CONFIG_DIRS":"/etc/xdg/xdg-gnome:/etc/xdg","XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP":"GNOME","XDG_DATA_DIRS":"/usr/share/gnome:/home/lupodellasleppa/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share:/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/:/var/lib/snapd/desktop","XDG_MENU_PREFIX":"gnome-","XDG_RUNTIME_DIR":"/run/user/1000","XDG_SESSION_CLASS":"user","XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP":"gnome","XDG_SESSION_TYPE":"wayland","XMODIFIERS":"@im=ibus","_":"/usr/share/code/code","ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE":"1","VSCODE_L10N_BUNDLE_LOCATION":"","GEMINI_YOLO_MODE":"false","DEBUG":"false","SURFACE":"VSCode","USE_CCPA":"1","GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS":"/home/lupodellasleppa/.cache/google-vscode-extension/auth/application_default_credentials.json","GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT":"quadratic-aurora-bxnz0"}
[11/19/2025, 6:37:43 PM] [ERROR]: callClient: client not ready
[11/19/2025, 6:37:43 PM] [INFO]: service/healthcheck{ projectID: 'quadratic-aurora-bxnz0' }Bd { a: false, b: null }
[11/19/2025, 6:37:43 PM] [ERROR]: callClient: client not ready
[11/19/2025, 6:37:43 PM] [ERROR]: callClient: client not ready
[11/19/2025, 6:37:44 PM] [INFO]: Client experimentation flags: {
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  enableCallToAction: false,
  enableGdpUpgradeFlow: false,
  enableCodeTransformM2Features: true,
  enableFeedbackBlock: false,
  enableAdminCitationBlock: false,
  enableFirebaseDataConnectChatTool: false,
  enableStandardTierEasyOnboarding: true,
  enableFlashCompletionsClientPostprocessing: false,
  enableChatFolderContextSelection: true,
  enableEventsPipelinePolling: false,
  completionReplacesCursorLine: false,
  enableFullCodebaseAwarenessChat: true,
  generationPaneViewDefaultConfig: false,
  enableApigeeGeminiChatTool: true,
  enableMcpServer: false,
  enableAdminTelemetryBlock: false,
  enableCloudCodeTelemetry: true,
  enableMockServer: true,
  enableG1UpgradeFlow: true,
  enableNextEditEllipsis: false,
  enableLocalAgent: true,
  enableGenerationPaneView: false,
  enableFlashCompletions: false,
  enableAICharsPercentage: true,
  enableChatAgenticMcpChat: false,
  enableAgentBoard: false,
  enableFreeTier: true,
  enableNextEdit: true,
  enableStructuredCodeEdits: true,
  enableCustomSlashCommands: true,
  showRegenerateChatRequestButton: true,
  enableAICharactersTelemetryCCPA: true,
  enableFreeTierIneligbilityReason: true,
  showDeleteChatRequestButton: true,
  showEditChatRequestButton: true,
  enableCodeCustomizationWebview: true,
  showApplyAllChangesButton: true,
  enableRemoteRepositoriesContext: true,
  enableInlineDiff: true,
  enableCodeCustomizationLearnMoreMessage: true,
  enableChatCheckpoints: true,
  codeCompletionsDebounceMs: '550',
  currentTierPollingIntervalMs: '43200000',
  eventsPipelinePollingIntervalMs: '60000',
  licenseMessageFrequencyDays: '60'
}
[11/19/2025, 6:37:44 PM] [ERROR]: callClient: client not ready
[11/19/2025, 6:37:44 PM] [INFO]: /home/lupodellasleppa/.vscode/extensions/google.geminicodeassist-2.58.1/cloudcode_cli.zip(Wed Nov 19 2025 18:31:59 GMT+0100 (Central European Standard Time)) has a newer timestamp than /home/lupodellasleppa/.cache/cloud-code/cloudcode_cli/cloudcode_cli/869927f9/cloudcode_cli(Tue Nov 18 2025 18:52:51 GMT+0100 (Central European Standard Time)); /home/lupodellasleppa/.vscode/extensions/google.geminicodeassist-2.58.1/cloudcode_cli.zip will be extracted
[11/19/2025, 6:37:44 PM] [INFO]: /home/lupodellasleppa/.cache/cloud-code/cloudcode_cli/cloudcode_cli/869927f9/cloudcode_cli needs update
[11/19/2025, 6:37:44 PM] [INFO]: Beginning extract of /home/lupodellasleppa/.vscode/extensions/google.geminicodeassist-2.58.1/cloudcode_cli.zip to /home/lupodellasleppa/.cache/cloud-code/cloudcode_cli/cloudcode_cli/869927f9
[11/19/2025, 6:37:44 PM] [INFO]: Skipping updating LS experimentation flags since LS is not ready.
[11/19/2025, 6:37:44 PM] [ERROR]: callClient: client not ready
[11/19/2025, 6:37:44 PM] [ERROR]: callClient: client not ready
[11/19/2025, 6:37:44 PM] [INFO]: Language client not ready, skipping Code Customization Enabled message.
[11/19/2025, 6:37:44 PM] [INFO]: service/healthcheck{ projectID: 'quadratic-aurora-bxnz0' }Bd { a: false, b: null }
[11/19/2025, 6:37:44 PM] [ERROR]: callClient: client not ready
[11/19/2025, 6:37:44 PM] [INFO]: Get to https://cloudcode-pa.googleapis.com/v1internal:loadCodeAssist response: {"currentTier":{"id":"standard-tier","name":"Gemini Code Assist","description":"Unlimited coding assistant with the most powerful Gemini models","userDefinedCloudaicompanionProject":true,"privacyNotice":{},"quotaTier":"standard-tier"},"allowedTiers":[{"id":"standard-tier","name":"Gemini Code Assist","description":"Unlimited coding assistant with the most powerful Gemini models","userDefinedCloudaicompanionProject":true,"privacyNotice":{},"isDefault":true,"quotaTier":"standard-tier"}],"cloudaicompanionProject":"quadratic-aurora-bxnz0","gcpManaged":false,"manageSubscriptionUri":"https://accounts.google.com/AccountChooser?Email=lupodellasleppa%40gmail.com&continue=https%3A%2F%2Fone.google.com%2Fsettings","releaseChannel":{"type":"EXPERIMENTAL","name":"Preview Channel"}}, headers: {"x-cloudaicompanion-trace-id":["935ad936b1b4c5ba"],"content-type":["application/json; charset=UTF-8"],"vary":["Origin, X-Origin, Referer"],"content-encoding":["gzip"],"date":["Wed, 19 Nov 2025 17:37:44 GMT"],"server":["ESF"],"x-xss-protection":["0"],"x-frame-options":["SAMEORIGIN"],"x-content-type-options":["nosniff"],"server-timing":["gfet5t7;dur=268, gfet4t7; dur=577"],"alt-svc":["h3=\":443\"; ma=2592000,h3-29=\":443\"; ma=2592000"],"connection":["close"],"transfer-encoding":["chunked"]}
[11/19/2025, 6:37:44 PM] [INFO]: LoadCodeAssistResponse: {"currentTier":{"id":"standard-tier","name":"Gemini Code Assist","description":"Unlimited coding assistant with the most powerful Gemini models","userDefinedCloudaicompanionProject":true,"privacyNotice":{},"quotaTier":"standard-tier"},"allowedTiers":[{"id":"standard-tier","name":"Gemini Code Assist","description":"Unlimited coding assistant with the most powerful Gemini models","userDefinedCloudaicompanionProject":true,"privacyNotice":{},"isDefault":true,"quotaTier":"standard-tier"}],"cloudaicompanionProject":"quadratic-aurora-bxnz0","gcpManaged":false,"manageSubscriptionUri":"https://accounts.google.com/AccountChooser?Email=lupodellasleppa%40gmail.com&continue=https%3A%2F%2Fone.google.com%2Fsettings","releaseChannel":{"type":"EXPERIMENTAL","name":"Preview Channel"}}
[11/19/2025, 6:37:44 PM] [ERROR]: callClient: client not ready
[11/19/2025, 6:37:44 PM] [ERROR]: callClient: client not ready
[11/19/2025, 6:37:45 PM] [ERROR]: callClient: client not ready
[11/19/2025, 6:37:45 PM] [INFO]: Successfully notified LS of local agent server start
[11/19/2025, 6:37:46 PM] [INFO]: Finished extract of /home/lupodellasleppa/.vscode/extensions/google.geminicodeassist-2.58.1/cloudcode_cli.zip to /home/lupodellasleppa/.cache/cloud-code/cloudcode_cli/cloudcode_cli/869927f9
[11/19/2025, 6:37:46 PM] [INFO]: chmod of /home/lupodellasleppa/.cache/cloud-code/cloudcode_cli/cloudcode_cli/869927f9/cloudcode_cli
[11/19/2025, 6:37:46 PM] [INFO]: Finished processing /home/lupodellasleppa/.cache/cloud-code/cloudcode_cli/cloudcode_cli/869927f9/cloudcode_cli
[11/19/2025, 6:37:46 PM] [ERROR]: Encountered Error: Error: Cannot create a string longer than 0x1fffffe8 characters
[11/19/2025, 6:37:46 PM] [ERROR]: callClient: client not ready

Gemini Code Assist

[empty]

Gemini Code Assist Agent

Starting background process...
Background process started with PID 21482
(node:21482) [DEP0040] DeprecationWarning: The `punycode` module is deprecated. Please use a userland alternative instead.
(Use `code --trace-deprecation ...` to show where the warning was created)
Background process is already running.
Stopping process (e.g., for restart)...

Process exited with code null and signal SIGTERM
Process exited for restart, attempting to restart...
Starting background process...
Background process started with PID 21507
(node:21507) [DEP0040] DeprecationWarning: The `punycode` module is deprecated. Please use a userland alternative instead.
(Use `code --trace-deprecation ...` to show where the warning was created)
[INFO] 2025-11-19 18:37:45.392 PM -- [Config] Using CCPA Auth:
Loaded cached credentials.
[INFO] 2025-11-19 18:37:45.941 PM -- [Config] GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT: quadratic-aurora-bxnz0
[INFO] 2025-11-19 18:37:45.941 PM -- Using InMemoryTaskStore
[INFO] 2025-11-19 18:37:45.944 PM -- [CoreAgent] Agent Server started on http://localhost:40323
[INFO] 2025-11-19 18:37:45.944 PM -- [CoreAgent] Agent Card: http://localhost:40323/.well-known/agent-card.json
[INFO] 2025-11-19 18:37:45.944 PM -- [CoreAgent] Press Ctrl+C to stop the server

lupodellasleppa avatar Nov 19 '25 17:11 lupodellasleppa

Thank you for your logs, it helps.

As a one more thing to try:

I have renamed my ~/.config/Code to ~/.config/Old, ~/.vscode to ~/.vscode.old and deleted ~/.cache/Code and ~/.cache/google-vscode-extension. I believe this brings me to a clean session.

  1. Try to uninstall the extension, close VS Code completely and delete the folder /home/lupodellasleppa/.cache/cloud-code/ in it's entirety. Also delete anything in /home/lupodellasleppa/.vscode/extensions/ related to gemini code assist or cloud code.
  2. Keep the "geminicodeassist.verboseLogging" setting and delete the "geminicodeassist.project" (or any other gemini code assist) settings.
  3. Install the extension.
  4. Wait about a minute or so.
  5. Copy paste Gemini Code Assist, Gemini Code Assist Debug and Gemini Code Assist Citations (if applicable) to the next reply.
  6. If extension complains about the project - reload the VSCode, but do NOT remove the project setting (just cmd+p: reload Window). If the GCA still doesn't work - please copy-paste the logs again (they might or might not be different from the step 4).

Thanks!

alisa-alisa avatar Nov 20 '25 19:11 alisa-alisa

I'm a little confused. This seems to be an issue with the Code Assist extension, not GCLI, right?

scidomino avatar Nov 24 '25 22:11 scidomino

I created the issue here as there isn't a Gemini Code Assist repo (or better yet, I couldn't find one) and my searches brought me to the related issue, which has the same symptoms I'm experiencing, and has been created in this repo. I'll be gladly pointed to a more pertinent platform if necessary.

@alisa-alisa thank you for the support. I'll follow your instructions and come back to you with the results. At the moment I got stuck having fun testing Antigravity since it came out ✨

lupodellasleppa avatar Nov 25 '25 15:11 lupodellasleppa

@alisa-alisa It actually started all right after deleting ~/.cache/cloud-code (which I had no idea about)

I'm attaching the logs anyway (the logs for Gemini Code Assist are HUGE I think because I didn't start with a clean .config/Code dir this time so my workplace is quite big with 3 node_modules dirs)

gemini-code-assist-bug-logs.zip

If I'd known about ~/.cache/cloud-code I wouldn't have bothered you guys at all :) thank you for the great support, can close for me

lupodellasleppa avatar Nov 25 '25 23:11 lupodellasleppa

Thank you for your feedback @lupodellasleppa , I am glad it worked! I'll see how to add more graceful failure to GCA.

alisa-alisa avatar Dec 06 '25 09:12 alisa-alisa