VSCode SSH Remote connected to AWS EC2 instance running Ubuntu 20.04 (ARM64)
I'm connecting to the instance using AWS SSM through the Remote SSH extension (see more detail about how here: https://github.com/aws/aws-toolkit-vscode/issues/941) which is working fine, but zsh shell integration fails with the message Shell integration failed to activate:
Meanwhile, I can easily create a bash based terminal and write $ zsh afterwards:
The is the output generated in the Log (Window) Output pane of VSCode:
[2022-08-09 19:22:35.667] [renderer1] [error] EPERM: operation not permitted, copyfile
'/data/home/pens/.vscode-server/bin/da76f93349a72022ca4670c1b84860304616aaa2/out/vs/workbench/contrib/terminal/browser/media/shellIntegration-rc.zsh'
-> '/tmp/vscode-zsh/.zshrc':
Error: EPERM: operation not permitted, copyfile
'/data/home/pens/.vscode-server/bin/da76f93349a72022ca4670c1b84860304616aaa2/out/vs/workbench/contrib/terminal/browser/media/shellIntegration-rc.zsh'
-> '/tmp/vscode-zsh/.zshrc'
It prints a similar error for the following dot-files files: .zcompdump, .zlogin, .zprofile, .zshenv, .zshrc
Ultimately this means that the issue is related to access to the files in the directory: /tmp/vscode-zsh/
VSCode tries to create the 5 dot-files in the same folder with the same naming for the current user whenever it tries to launch a shell integrated zsh terminal. This results in permission denied / operation not permitted if the files have already been created for - and are owned by - another user.. Any ideas how to fix this?