vscode **The window terminated unexpectedly (reason: ‘crashed’, code: ‘5’)**

Type: Performance Issue

it crashes every 30 seconds after last update

VS Code version: Code 1.98.0 (6609ac3d66f4eade5cf376d1cb76f13985724bcb, 2025-03-04T21:06:18.612Z) OS version: Linux arm64 6.6.74+rpt-rpi-2712 Modes:

System Info

Item	Value
CPUs	Cortex-A76 (4 x 2400)
GPU Status	2d_canvas: enabled canvas_oop_rasterization: enabled_on direct_rendering_display_compositor: disabled_off_ok gpu_compositing: enabled multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on opengl: enabled_on rasterization: enabled raw_draw: disabled_off_ok skia_graphite: disabled_off video_decode: disabled_software video_encode: disabled_software vulkan: disabled_off webgl: enabled webgl2: enabled webgpu: disabled_off webnn: disabled_off
Load (avg)	2, 2, 1
Memory (System)	7.86GB (5.41GB free)
Process Argv
Screen Reader	no
VM	0%
DESKTOP_SESSION	LXDE-pi
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP	LXDE
XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP	LXDE-pi-x
XDG_SESSION_TYPE	x11

Process Info

CPU %	Mem MB	   PID	Process
    1	   241	  5502	code main
    0	    89	  5505	   zygote
    0	   113	  5541	     gpu-process
    0	    89	  5506	   zygote
    0	    24	  5508	     zygote
    0	   113	  5546	   utility-network-service
    4	   185	  5609	shared-process
    0	     0	  6116	     /bin/sh -c /usr/bin/ps -ax -o pid=,ppid=,pcpu=,pmem=,command=
    0	     0	  6117	       /usr/bin/ps -ax -o pid=,ppid=,pcpu=,pmem=,command=
    0	   153	  6034	fileWatcher [6]
    0	   201	  6044	extensionHost [6]

Workspace Info

|  Window (main.cpp - Tolard3d - Visual Studio Code)
|    Folder (Tolard3d): 1447 files
|      File types: png(309) json(144) cmake(101) txt(69) cpp(69) o(67) h(67)
|                  a(40) ttf(23) xml(18)
|      Conf files: cmake(101) launch.json(1) settings.json(1) tasks.json(1)
|      Launch Configs: cppdbg;

Extensions: none

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Mar 06 '25 06:03 TolardTuran

I just had a similar problem (different error code). Downgrading to 1.97.2 works:

Arm64 1.97.2 Deb package

Mar 06 '25 06:03 bogacg

same here - always when some new extensions or updates are loaded

Mar 06 '25 19:03 AcidVienna

Same for me, making VSCode on the Raspberry Pi unusable.

Mar 06 '25 19:03 jdbruner

The fact they don't have a report option in the help menu, suggest to me they don't want to support Linux based problems, just their darlings Operating Systems like MacOS and Windows

Mar 06 '25 21:03 richiephp

In my case (Pi 5 Bookworm) I suspect it may be related to a) vs code running when the update was applied and/or b) a venv active in the vs code terminal. It did not occur on my Pi 4 Bookworm system where vs code was not running at the time of the update. Also, Sourcegraph Cody extension was active.

Mar 07 '25 05:03 Prolora

In my case (Pi 5 Bookworm) I suspect it may be related to a) vs code running when the update was applied and/or b) a venv active in the vs code terminal. It did not occur on my Pi 4 Bookworm system where vs code was not running at the time of the update. Also, Sourcegraph Cody extension was active.

How does software crash when its not running? My venv wasn't running at the time of crashing

Mar 07 '25 09:03 richiephp

same for me. version 1.98 crashes after a few seconds on RPi5 Debian linux.
Installed older version (1.97) with following commands:

VERSION="1.97.2" # Change this to the version you want wget "https://update.code.visualstudio.com/$VERSION/linux-deb-arm64/stable" -O vscode.deb sudo apt install ./vscode.deb

sudo apt-mark hold code

Mar 07 '25 10:03 MarcoPieters

This does not repro for me on a 64-bit Intel box running Ubuntu 24.05.

Mar 07 '25 15:03 jdbruner

See https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/242844#issuecomment-2705906632

Mar 07 '25 22:03 gjsjohnmurray

Also see #242843

You can work around it by launching it from bash with code --js-flags="--nodecommit_pooled_pages"

Mar 07 '25 22:03 jdbruner

/duplicate

Mar 07 '25 22:03 gjsjohnmurray

Thanks for creating this issue! We figured it's covering the same as another one we already have. Thus, we closed this one as a duplicate. You can search for similar existing issues. See also our issue reporting guidelines.

Happy Coding!

Mar 07 '25 22:03 vs-code-engineering[bot]

A link to the other issue would be helpful, rather than just telling us all to search for it (which I have just done and come here from my own issue where I got the identical response from https://github.com/apps/vs-code-engineering

Mar 08 '25 16:03 drmikecooke

Found it: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/242742

Looks like will be fixed in the March release

Mar 08 '25 16:03 drmikecooke

Version 1.98.1 still crashing in Pi5, Debian Bullseye.

Mar 13 '25 10:03 cartheur

@cartheur 1.98.1 was a security release. This issue should be fixed in 1.98.2

Mar 13 '25 11:03 gjsjohnmurray

Nope, it's not fixed in 1.98.2

Mar 13 '25 22:03 jdbruner