I'm trying to connect to a server via remote-ssh extension for Visual Studio Code, however, I'm getting the following error:
The vscode server failed to start SSH
Everything is fine on the server-side, and the connection to this host worked fine for a while.
Any suggestions to re-access the server via remote-ssh extension?
After a while, I found a solution that can be useful to others.
In VS Code press:
CTRL + SHIFT + P
Type or select the option:
Remote-SSH: kill VS Code Server on Host...
Select the host name:
And after this procedure, try connecting again to the host.
That worked for me.
wrong proxy setting may cause problem. If Remote-SSH: kill VS Code Server on Host command not work for you, open settings and clear proxy setting and retry.
Everything is fine on the server-side, and the connection to this host worked fine for a while.
In case it is a simple intermittent network issue, VSCode 1.70 (July 2022) will retry the connection for you (up to 5 times)
See issue 127565 and PR 156444
Retry up to 5 times the initial authority resolving and also retry up to 5 times the initial connection
When connecting to a remote, if the initial connection fails, we will give up. The idea was that retrying would be useless, since the initial setup might have failed.
But it is possible that perhaps it was an intermittent network error.
This is available in VSCode insiders today.
