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VS Code freezes on pristine builds

geoffF

Hi.  Last project was on v2.4.x and returning for a new one after loving the platform previously.  However, the VS Code dev environment seems far less stable that it was 2 years ago.  There are a number of small things but by far the most troublesome is that after approx 50% of pristine builds (or those after changing device tree or prj.conf) VS Code latches up and is unresponsive.   Have to end task it and relaunch costing me a lot of time restarting debug sessions. Does not seem to matter if the build is launched via "Build", "Flash" or "Debug". Been using it again for about 3 months and feels like this issue has appeared in the last month or so. 

I have deleted the build folder for a clean slate, even recloned the repo.  I just have the recommended extensions all latest (list below) and SDK and toolchain 3.1.1.  VS Code is latest, 

Thanks in advance.

Version: 1.111.0 (user setup)
Commit: ce099c1ed25d9eb3076c11e4a280f3eb52b4fbeb
Date: 2026-03-06T23:06:10Z
Electron: 39.6.0
ElectronBuildId: 13330601
Chromium: 142.0.7444.265
Node.js: 22.22.0
V8: 14.2.231.22-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26200

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