Receiving error message 'Extension host terminated unexpectedly.' in Visual Studio Code

I had the same error after updating vsc to v. 1.31.0.

Disabling Live Server Extension worked for me.

Here's the error i'm getting having the extension enabled.

I started getting this error when vscode automatically updated to March 2020 (version 1.44). I have tried various suggestions given in the forum and over the internet but none of them worked.

What worked for me: I downloaded January 2020 (version 1.42) build from https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_42 and ran over the previous installation without uninstalling and surprisingly, the error disappeared and all extensions are loading and working properly.

I tried following things and non of them worked:

1. I disabled all the installed extension from GUI.

2. uninstalled all the extension and installed again.

3. removed the left-over extensions from Windows %USERPROFILE%.vscode\extensions.

4. tried launching from the command prompt with --disable-extensions option.

Linking my github issue on Microsoft/vscode as reference.
It ended up being one of the base extensions that runs on startup that was the root of the problem.

In my case the git in extensions folder was causing it.
"git.enabled": false was not doing the trick so I had to remove the git folder altogether for the error to disappear.

I disabled all the extensions with name Live for example Live Server, Live Share etc and restarted my vscode again and it worked for me.

For me this was happening due to HTML CSS Support extension. so i removed it and restarted vs code and voila! it worked!

I had to uninstall few extensions related to Java (debugger for java, Test runner for java, extension pack for java etc) to make the error go away.

Click on the developer tool option that popups and see if it has the extension which is causing this error.

I got same issue and it was because of Color Highlight Extension. I just uninstalled Color Highlight Extension and its working fine and NO ERROR.

Me too. My failure has no "Code":

Extension host terminated unexpectedly. Code: null Signal: SIGABRT

MessageService.ts

In my case, the live server extension was causing this issue in 1.31.0v of VS Code. After uninstalling the extension it started working correctly.

In my case it was from the extension "Todo Tree". It was breaking on a particularly large file in my project (13.7mb), with the error saying the file was over the max-size for a node-buffer (used by the C regex matcher).

Resolved the issue by disabling the extension.

I also opened an issue for it here: https://github.com/Gruntfuggly/todo-tree/issues/135

I had same problem with following error in my VSCode console.

`1: node::DecodeWrite
 2: node::InternalCallbackScope::Close
 3: v8::internal::VirtualMemory::TakeControl
 4: v8::internal::PerThreadAssertScope<4,1>::PerThreadAssertScope<4,1>
 5: v8::internal::operator<<
 6: v8::internal::operator<<
 7: 00000073ECF04481`

I solved it by uninstalling Angular Console extension. Not sure if it was that particular extension or some other memory issue but problem went away as soon as I uninstalled that.

Remove all Extensions which are located in a per user extensions folder. Depending on your platform, the location is in the following folder:

• Windows %USERPROFILE%\.vscode\extensions
• macOS ~/.vscode/extensions
• Linux ~/.vscode/extensions

Restart vscode and start installing extensions.

I am not sure why this caused , but the Antivirus was throwing popups that something like extensionprocess.js file was repaired.

Disabled the Antivirus and re-installed Vscode and it was back to normal. Hope this helps.

Here is what helped me: Ctrl+Shift+P --> type: "Disable"

and click Disable all installed extensions (alternatively click Disable all installed extensions for this Workspace)

Then go to extensions panel on the left and re-enable slowly those that you really need.

See which extension (or their combination) triggers that error.

• It will be highly appreciated which extenstion/combination you'll find guilty as there may be several of them, and different in time...

for me, it was code runner extension I just disabled it.