microsoft / microsoft/vscode-remote-release
DevContainers JSON parse error
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Description
Type: Bug
code rev 223 breaks DevContainers. I had to downgarde VSCode to rev 222 in order to keep working with DevContainers. During the build fase of the container the extension reads a file that it expect to contain JSON, but is empty. The file exists but has 0 bytes. It seems that all files in that directory are empty. The location of the file:
/vscode/vscode-server/bin/linux-x64/591199df409fbf59b4b52d5ad4ee0470152a9b31/product.json
Extension version: 0.442.0
VS Code version: Code 1.109.1 (6534f6ba7604bf324f94cc9a590727f39a4af040, 2026-02-09T20:18:48.496Z)
OS version: Linux x64 6.17.0-14-generic snap
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Remote OS version: Linux x64 6.17.0-14-generic
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