Can't launch additional windows via code from cli.

[Jack-023]

The Preview On Github button from the built-in issue report window wasn't working so I manually copied the info over. Sorry if the formatting is not exactly as expected.

Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Yes

• VS Code Version:

• Version: 1.95.3
  Commit: f1a4fb1
  Date: 2024-11-13T14:50:04.152Z
  Electron: 32.2.1
  ElectronBuildId: 10427718
  Chromium: 128.0.6613.186
  Node.js: 20.18.0
  V8: 12.8.374.38-electron.0
  OS: Linux x64 6.11.9-arch1-1

• OS Version: Linux x64 6.11.9-arch1-1

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Open project from terminal. (logs posted below)

> code --disable-extensions --verbose ./tmp > /data/vscode_logs/1.txt

VSCode opens as expected.
2. Attempt to open another project from terminal, while first window is still open.

> code --disable-extensions --verbose ./tmp2 > /data/vscode_logs/2.txt

Nothing happens, no new window. This has been happening 100% of the time I attempt this. Launching a new window through the GUI works as expected.

Here are the log files. The first one is the logs written from the start to end time of the second instance.
1.txt

�[90m[main 2024-11-21T05:55:22.672Z]�[0m Received data from other instance:  {
  _: [ '/data/tmp2' ],
  diff: false,
  merge: false,
  add: false,
  goto: false,
  'new-window': true,
  'reuse-window': false,
  wait: false,
  help: false,
  'list-extensions': false,
  'show-versions': false,
  'pre-release': false,
  'update-extensions': false,
  version: false,
  verbose: true,
  status: false,
  'prof-startup': false,
  'no-cached-data': false,
  'prof-v8-extensions': false,
  'disable-extensions': true,
  'disable-lcd-text': false,
  'disable-gpu': true,
  'disable-chromium-sandbox': false,
  sandbox: false,
  telemetry: false,
  extensionDevelopmentPath: [ '$HOME/.vscode-oss/extensions/undefined_publisher.wallbash-0.0.1' ],
  debugRenderer: false,
  'enable-smoke-test-driver': false,
  logExtensionHostCommunication: false,
  'skip-release-notes': false,
  'skip-welcome': false,
  'disable-telemetry': false,
  'disable-updates': false,
  'use-inmemory-secretstorage': false,
  'disable-workspace-trust': false,
  'disable-crash-reporter': false,
  'crash-reporter-id': 'ad189793-6a94-4d8f-b77d-c33db011f329',
  'skip-add-to-recently-opened': false,
  'open-url': false,
  'file-write': false,
  'file-chmod': false,
  force: false,
  'do-not-sync': false,
  trace: false,
  'preserve-env': false,
  'force-user-env': false,
  'force-disable-user-env': false,
  'open-devtools': false,
  'disable-gpu-sandbox': false,
  '__enable-file-policy': false,
  'enable-coi': false,
  'no-proxy-server': false,
  'no-sandbox': false,
  nolazy: false,
  'force-renderer-accessibility': false,
  'ignore-certificate-errors': false,
  'allow-insecure-localhost': false,
  'disable-dev-shm-usage': false,
  'profile-temp': false,
  logsPath: '/home/null/.config/Code/logs/20241121T165522'
} {
  SHELL: '/usr/bin/zsh',
  LSCOLORS: 'Gxfxcxdxbxegedabagacad',
  ZLE_RPROMPT_INDENT: '0',
  COLORTERM: 'truecolor',
  HYPRLAND_CMD: 'Hyprland',
  LESS: '-R',
  XDG_SESSION_PATH: '/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Session2',
  NVM_INC: '/home/null/.nvm/versions/node/v22.4.1/include/node',
  XDG_BACKEND: 'wayland',
  QT_WAYLAND_DISABLE_WINDOWDECORATION: '1',
  LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME: 'nvidia',
  DESKTOP_SESSION: 'hyprland',
  LC_MONETARY: 'en_AU.UTF-8',
  HL_INITIAL_WORKSPACE_TOKEN: 'a9ee9444-c580-410f-8435-96509d0f53df',
  KITTY_PID: '29933',
  XDG_SEAT: 'seat0',
  PWD: '/data',
  LOGNAME: 'null',
  XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP: 'Hyprland',
  QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME: 'qt6ct',
  XDG_SESSION_TYPE: 'wayland',
  KITTY_PUBLIC_KEY: '1:Jz3f5y=bx^L*bH_u1s8B_MggZ9cykC07>|OK3pLv',
  POSH_SHELL: 'zsh',
  MOTD_SHOWN: 'pam',
  HOME: '/home/null',
  LC_PAPER: 'en_AU.UTF-8',
  LANG: 'C.UTF-8',
  __GL_VRR_ALLOWED: '1',
  _JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENTING: '1',
  LS_COLORS: 'rs=0:di=01;34:ln=01;36:mh=00:pi=40;33:so=01;35:do=01;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=40;31;01:mi=00:su=37;41:sg=30;43:ca=00:tw=30;42:ow=47;40;01:st=37;44:ex=01;32:*.7z=01;31:*.ace=01;31:*.alz=01;31:*.apk=01;31:*.arc=01;31:*.arj=01;31:*.bz=01;31:*.bz2=01;31:*.cab=01;31:*.cpio=01;31:*.crate=01;31:*.deb=01;31:*.drpm=01;31:*.dwm=01;31:*.dz=01;31:*.ear=01;31:*.egg=01;31:*.esd=01;31:*.gz=01;31:*.jar=01;31:*.lha=01;31:*.lrz=01;31:*.lz=01;31:*.lz4=01;31:*.lzh=01;31:*.lzma=01;31:*.lzo=01;31:*.pyz=01;31:*.rar=01;31:*.rpm=01;31:*.rz=01;31:*.sar=01;31:*.swm=01;31:*.t7z=01;31:*.tar=01;31:*.taz=01;31:*.tbz=01;31:*.tbz2=01;31:*.tgz=01;31:*.tlz=01;31:*.txz=01;31:*.tz=01;31:*.tzo=01;31:*.tzst=01;31:*.udeb=01;31:*.war=01;31:*.whl=01;31:*.wim=01;31:*.xz=01;31:*.z=01;31:*.zip=01;31:*.zoo=01;31:*.zst=01;31:*.avif=01;35:*.jpg=01;35:*.jpeg=01;35:*.mjpg=01;35:*.mjpeg=01;35:*.gif=01;35:*.bmp=01;35:*.pbm=01;35:*.pgm=01;35:*.ppm=01;35:*.tga=01;35:*.xbm=01;35:*.xpm=01;35:*.tif=01;35:*.tiff=01;35:*.png=01;35:*.svg=01;35:*.svgz=01;35:*.mng=01;35:*.pcx=01;35:*.mov=01;35:*.mpg=01;35:*.mpeg=01;35:*.m2v=01;35:*.mkv=01;35:*.webm=01;35:*.webp=01;35:*.ogm=01;35:*.mp4=01;35:*.m4v=01;35:*.mp4v=01;35:*.vob=01;35:*.qt=01;35:*.nuv=01;35:*.wmv=01;35:*.asf=01;35:*.rm=01;35:*.rmvb=01;35:*.flc=01;35:*.avi=01;35:*.fli=01;35:*.flv=01;35:*.gl=01;35:*.dl=01;35:*.xcf=01;35:*.xwd=01;35:*.yuv=01;35:*.cgm=01;35:*.emf=01;35:*.ogv=01;35:*.ogx=01;35:*.aac=00;36:*.au=00;36:*.flac=00;36:*.m4a=00;36:*.mid=00;36:*.midi=00;36:*.mka=00;36:*.mp3=00;36:*.mpc=00;36:*.ogg=00;36:*.ra=00;36:*.wav=00;36:*.oga=00;36:*.opus=00;36:*.spx=00;36:*.xspf=00;36:*~=00;90:*#=00;90:*.bak=00;90:*.crdownload=00;90:*.dpkg-dist=00;90:*.dpkg-new=00;90:*.dpkg-old=00;90:*.dpkg-tmp=00;90:*.old=00;90:*.orig=00;90:*.part=00;90:*.rej=00;90:*.rpmnew=00;90:*.rpmorig=00;90:*.rpmsave=00;90:*.swp=00;90:*.tmp=00;90:*.ucf-dist=00;90:*.ucf-new=00;90:*.ucf-old=00;90:',
  XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP: 'Hyprland',
  POSH_SHELL_VERSION: '5.9',
  POSH_SESSION_ID: 'a3aeff54-9c5f-4443-abca-4d875d85004b',
  WAYLAND_DISPLAY: 'wayland-1',
  KITTY_WINDOW_ID: '1',
  OSTYPE: 'linux-gnu',
  CONDA_PROMPT_MODIFIER: 'false',
  XDG_SEAT_PATH: '/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Seat0',
  QT_QPA_PLATFORM: 'wayland;xcb',
  NVM_DIR: '/home/null/.nvm',
  XDG_SESSION_CLASS: 'user',
  TERM: 'xterm-kitty',
  TERMINFO: '/usr/lib/kitty/terminfo',
  ZSH: '/home/null/.oh-my-zsh',
  USER: 'null',
  SUDO_EDITOR: 'nvim',
  HYPRLAND_INSTANCE_SIGNATURE: '12f9a0d0b93f691d4d9923716557154d74777b0a_1732164158_630937349',
  VISUAL: 'nvim',
  DISPLAY: ':1',
  SHLVL: '2',
  NVM_CD_FLAGS: '-q',
  MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND: '1',
  PAGER: 'less',
  LC_MEASUREMENT: 'en_AU.UTF-8',
  XDG_VTNR: '1',
  XDG_SESSION_ID: '2',
  WLR_DRM_NO_ATOMIC: '1',
  POSH_THEME: '/home/null/.config/oh-my-posh/catppuccin_mocha.omp.json',
  XDG_RUNTIME_DIR: '/run/user/1000',
  HAXE_STD_PATH: '/usr/share/haxe/std',
  DEBUGINFOD_URLS: 'https://debuginfod.archlinux.org ',
  LC_TIME: 'en_AU.UTF-8',
  QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR: '1',
  PATH: '/home/null/.nvm/versions/node/v22.4.1/bin:/home/null/.cargo/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/lib/jvm/default/bin:/usr/bin/site_perl:/usr/bin/vendor_perl:/usr/bin/core_perl:/home/null/.local/share/bin:/usr/local/go/bin:/home/null/go/bin:/home/null/.local/bin',
  __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME: 'nvidia',
  GDK_SCALE: '1',
  DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS: 'unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus',
  FZF_DEFAULT_OPTS: ' --color=bg+:#313244,bg:#1e1e2e,spinner:#f5e0dc,hl:#f38ba8 --color=fg:#cdd6f4,header:#f38ba8,info:#cba6f7,pointer:#f5e0dc --color=marker:#b4befe,fg+:#cdd6f4,prompt:#cba6f7,hl+:#f38ba8 --color=selected-bg:#45475a --multi',
  MAIL: '/var/spool/mail/null',
  NVM_BIN: '/home/null/.nvm/versions/node/v22.4.1/bin',
  POWERLINE_COMMAND: 'oh-my-posh',
  KITTY_INSTALLATION_DIR: '/usr/lib/kitty',
  LC_NUMERIC: 'en_AU.UTF-8',
  OLDPWD: '/home/null',
  GOPATH: '/home/null/go',
  _: '/opt/visual-studio-code/bin/../code',
  VSCODE_CWD: '/data',
  VSCODE_NLS_CONFIG: '{"userLocale":"en-us","osLocale":"c","resolvedLanguage":"en","defaultMessagesFile":"/opt/visual-studio-code/resources/app/out/nls.messages.json","locale":"en-us","availableLanguages":{}}',
  VSCODE_CLI: '1',
  ELECTRON_NO_ATTACH_CONSOLE: '1',
  ELECTRON_ENABLE_LOGGING: '1',
  CHROME_DESKTOP: 'code.desktop',
  ORIGINAL_XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP: 'Hyprland',
  GDK_BACKEND: 'wayland',
  NO_AT_BRIDGE: '1',
  VSCODE_CODE_CACHE_PATH: '/home/null/.config/Code/CachedData/f1a4fb101478ce6ec82fe9627c43efbf9e98c813',
  VSCODE_IPC_HOOK: '/run/user/1000/vscode-94dac0b4-1.95-main.sock'
}
�[90m[main 2024-11-21T05:55:22.673Z]�[0m Lifecycle#unload() - window ID 1
[30879:1121/165522.674036:INFO:CONSOLE(35)] "%cTRACE color: #888 [lifecycle] onBeforeUnload (reason: 3)", source: vscode-file://vscode-app/opt/visual-studio-code/resources/app/out/vs/workbench/workbench.desktop.main.js (35)
[30879:1121/165522.675260:INFO:CONSOLE(35)] "%cTRACE color: #888 [lifecycle] onBeforeUnload continues without veto", source: vscode-file://vscode-app/opt/visual-studio-code/resources/app/out/vs/workbench/workbench.desktop.main.js (35)
[30879:1121/165522.675664:INFO:CONSOLE(35)] "%cTRACE color: #888 [lifecycle] onWillUnload (reason: 3)", source: vscode-file://vscode-app/opt/visual-studio-code/resources/app/out/vs/workbench/workbench.desktop.main.js (35)

2.txt

[1121/165522.542980:ERROR:file_io_posix.cc(153)] open /home/null/.config/Code/Crashpad/pending/91c90fbb-2b46-4217-b67e-f374882324e6.lock: File exists (17)
[31146:1121/165522.544382:WARNING:wayland_object.cc(165)] Binding to wl_seat version 8 but version 9 is available.
[31146:1121/165522.544439:WARNING:wayland_object.cc(165)] Binding to zwp_pointer_gestures_v1 version 1 but version 3 is available.
[31146:1121/165522.544485:WARNING:wayland_object.cc(165)] Binding to zwp_linux_dmabuf_v1 version 3 but version 5 is available.
�[90m[main 2024-11-21T05:55:22.662Z]�[0m [File Watcher (node.js)] Request to start watching: /home/null/.config/Code/User (excludes: <none>, includes: <all>, filter: <none>, correlationId: <none>),/home/null/.config/Code/User/settings.json (excludes: <none>, includes: <all>, filter: <none>, correlationId: <none>)
�[90m[main 2024-11-21T05:55:22.668Z]�[0m Sending env to running instance...
�[90m[main 2024-11-21T05:55:22.669Z]�[0m [File Watcher (node.js)] Started watching: '/home/null/.config/Code/User'
�[90m[main 2024-11-21T05:55:22.669Z]�[0m [File Watcher (node.js)] Started watching: '/home/null/.config/Code/User/settings.json'
�[90m[main 2024-11-21T05:55:22.674Z]�[0m Sent env to running instance. Terminating...
�[90m[main 2024-11-21T05:55:22.674Z]�[0m Lifecycle#kill()
�[90m[main 2024-11-21T05:55:22.674Z]�[0m Lifecycle#onWillShutdown.fire()

[justschen]

@Jack-023 sorry just getting to this. does this still repro? if so, what type of issue are you filing (ie, to an extension? vscode?)

keep in mind that the "preview" button should only show up if you are not logged into github in vs code.

[Jack-023]

@Jack-023 sorry just getting to this. does this still repro? if so, what type of issue are you filing (ie, to an extension? vscode?)

keep in mind that the "preview" button should only show up if you are not logged into github in vs code.

Yes I'm still experiencing this issue. It seems to be a vscode issue as it still occurs with all extensions disabled.

[Jack-023]

Some additional observations related to this bug:

If I run code {filepath} while no vscode window is open, it will correctly open a new window with the given file opened in the editor pane.

If there is an existing vscode window, the window appears to reload (as if I had just run Developer: Reload Window via the Command Palette) but it does not open the file.