nRF Connect on VSCode (Ubuntu) Gets stuck at startup

RE: nRF Connect on VSCode (Ubuntu) Gets stuck at startup

Priyanka — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:00:58 GMT

Glad to hear that it works 🙂

-Priyanka

RE: nRF Connect on VSCode (Ubuntu) Gets stuck at startup

Sam-IIT — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:54:33 GMT

Hi Priyanka,

thank you for the feedback. The issue was definitely that even though I didn't resolved it by simply removing ">".
I was using the "jonathan" theme of zsh
https://travis.media/blog/top-12-oh-my-zsh-themes-for-productive-developers/

But editing the PROMPT variable at the end by removing ">" didn't fix it. So I changed the theme altogether to something different and it worked.

Thank you!

RE: nRF Connect on VSCode (Ubuntu) Gets stuck at startup

Priyanka — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:33:38 GMT

Hi Sam,

I have consulted with the extension team, and it looks like the issue is ‘>' in the last line of PROMPT variable. The PROMPT environmental variable is a template that sets how the shell prompt looks like and is set somewhere in the user’s .zshrc file. ‘/bin/zh -i’ never resolves because of mentioned ‘>' that opens another shell inside already open one that never closes.

I suggest that you try to find where the PROMPT variable is defined and remove the '>’.

Hopefully this will be resolved in the coming release, but for the time being this is the workaround. Hope this helps.

Regards,

Priyanka

RE: nRF Connect on VSCode (Ubuntu) Gets stuck at startup

Sam-IIT — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 12:45:56 GMT

Hi Pryanka,

thank you for your quick response. Changing it back to bash actually works but id like to avoid that since would require a bit of re-configuring for other tools.

RE: nRF Connect on VSCode (Ubuntu) Gets stuck at startup

Priyanka — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 12:30:45 GMT

Hi Sam,

Could you maybe try to use, say, bash instead of zsh. Just to rule out where the issue originates from. Do you still get an issue?

Regards,

Priyanka