Not compatible with Remote Development?

[NMertsch]

I have VS Code 1.77.3 installed on a Windows PC and use the Remote Development extension to connect to a Linux VM via SSH, where I do most of my development work.

The Ruff extension is installed and works without issues in local projects:

When I switch to a remote project, I can click the button "Install in SSH: [vm hostname]", which worked fine for all other extensions (e.g. Python, Black Formatter):

But for the Ruff extension I get the error message "Can't install 'charliermarch.ruff' extension because it is not compatible with the current version of Visual Studio Code (version 1.77.3)."

I don't know much about VS Code internals (neither about extensions, nor about remote development) and have no clue what's the issue. I'm happy to try things, though :)

Also thank you for this great linter and IDE integration!

[charliermarsh]

Hmm, strange. It's the same version of VS Code, right? So maybe that error message ("not compatible with the current version") is a red herring, and something else is going wrong.

[NMertsch]

EDIT: Solved it, the issue was totally unrelated to the content of this comment. Leaving it here for reference/findability.

Sorry for taking so long. I'm not familiar with VS Code internals or its Extension API, but here's what I found:

Since I'm connecting from Windows to Linux, could it be an issue with platform-specific components in the extension? The following issues suggest this could cause trouble (these specific issues got fixed, though):

• Unable to install another version of platform-specific extension on the remote host microsoft/vscode-remote-release#6384
• Unable to "Install Another Version..." of extension that uses platform-specific VSIX's, in Remote WSL workspace microsoft/vscode#142890

--- Logs ---

Here are the log entries occuring when trying to install the ruff extension on the remote host (log level: trace).

Shared

2023-05-05 15:01:54.499 [debug] User data changed

Window

2023-05-05 15:02:44.591 [debug] Remote Install Error Name Incompatible
2023-05-05 15:02:44.598 [error] Incompatible: Can't install 'charliermarsh.ruff' extension because it is not compatible with the current version of Visual Studio Code (version 1.77.3).
    at ne.G (/home/my-user/.vscode-server/bin/704ed70d4fd1c6bd6342c436f1ede30d1cff4710/out/vs/server/node/server.main.js:142:32663)
    at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:96:5)
    at async ne.installFromGallery (/home/my-user/.vscode-server/bin/704ed70d4fd1c6bd6342c436f1ede30d1cff4710/out/vs/server/node/server.main.js:142:24184)
2023-05-05 15:02:44.598 [trace] DialogService#prompt Can't install 'charliermarsh.ruff' extension because it is not compatible with the current version of Visual Studio Code (version 1.77.3).
2023-05-05 15:02:44.599 [error] Can't install 'charliermarsh.ruff' extension because it is not compatible with the current version of Visual Studio Code (version 1.77.3).: Incompatible: Can't install 'charliermarsh.ruff' extension because it is not compatible with the current version of Visual Studio Code (version 1.77.3).
    at ne.G (/home/my-user/.vscode-server/bin/704ed70d4fd1c6bd6342c436f1ede30d1cff4710/out/vs/server/node/server.main.js:142:32663)
    at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:96:5)
    at async ne.installFromGallery (/home/my-user/.vscode-server/bin/704ed70d4fd1c6bd6342c436f1ede30d1cff4710/out/vs/server/node/server.main.js:142:24184)
2023-05-05 15:02:44.619 [trace] [editor auto save] triggering auto save with reason 4
2023-05-05 15:02:44.623 [trace] InteractiveSessionService#onWillSaveState: Persisting 0 sessions
2023-05-05 15:02:44.838 [trace] [File Watcher (node.js)] [raw] ["change"] globalStorage
2023-05-05 15:02:44.838 [trace] [File Watcher (node.js)] [CHANGED] c:\Users\MyUser\AppData\Roaming\Code\User\globalStorage
2023-05-05 15:02:44.840 [trace] [File Watcher (node.js)] [raw] ["change"] globalStorage
2023-05-05 15:02:44.841 [trace] [File Watcher (node.js)] [CHANGED] c:\Users\MyUser\AppData\Roaming\Code\User\globalStorage
2023-05-05 15:02:44.927 [trace] [File Watcher (node.js)] >> normalized [CHANGED] c:\Users\MyUser\AppData\Roaming\Code\User\globalStorage
2023-05-05 15:02:44.928 [debug] User data changed

Extension Host (Remote)

2023-05-05 15:03:56.943 [debug] ProxyResolver#resolveProxy envNoProxy http://our-company-server.local:8080/https://dc.services.visualstudio.com/api/profiles/AIF-d9b70cd4-b9f9-4d70-929b-a071c400b217/appId DIRECT

Network Requests

2023-05-05 15:04:55.623 [trace] browser #20: https://charliermarsh.gallerycdn.vsassets.io/extensions/charliermarsh/ruff/2023.12.0/1680114403117/Microsoft.VisualStudio.Code.Manifest?targetPlatform=win32-x64 - begin GET {"X-Market-Client-Id":"VSCode 1.77.3","User-Agent":"VSCode 1.77.3 (Code)","X-Market-User-Id":"177392d9-ca3b-44fd-bffb-af9308f4f2e0","VSCode-SessionId":"85803733d373bc06195a4229d006550d123e6b24e4ff8dc27dcefb52f21ca0a9"}
2023-05-05 15:04:55.631 [trace] browser #20: https://charliermarsh.gallerycdn.vsassets.io/extensions/charliermarsh/ruff/2023.12.0/1680114403117/Microsoft.VisualStudio.Code.Manifest?targetPlatform=win32-x64 - end GET 200 {"cache-control":"public, max-age=31536000","content-encoding":"gzip","content-length":"1897","content-type":"application/json","date":"Wed, 12 Apr 2023 15:30:41 GMT","etag":"0x8DB3083269801E8","last-modified":"Wed, 29 Mar 2023 18:26:44 GMT","server":"ECAcc (frb/6754)","x-ms-blob-type":"BlockBlob","x-ms-lease-status":"unlocked","x-ms-request-id":"c2f16db4-701e-00dc-436c-62bf95000000","x-ms-version":"2009-09-19"}

Network Requests (Remote)

023-05-05 15:05:25.295 [trace] node #34: https://az764295.vo.msecnd.net/extensions/marketplace.json - begin GET {}
2023-05-05 15:05:25.299 [trace] node #34: https://az764295.vo.msecnd.net/extensions/marketplace.json - end GET 403 {"server":"squid/3.5.12","mime-version":"1.0","date":"Fri, 05 May 2023 13:05:25 GMT","content-type":"text/html;charset=utf-8","content-length":"3504","x-squid-error":"ERR_ACCESS_DENIED 0","vary":"Accept-Language","content-language":"en","x-cache":"MISS from our-company-server","x-cache-lookup":"NONE from our-company-server:8080","via":"1.1 our-company-server (squid/3.5.12)","connection":"close"}
2023-05-05 15:05:25.299 [trace] node #35: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/_apis/public/gallery/extensionquery - begin POST {"X-Market-Client-Id":"VSCode 1.77.3","User-Agent":"VSCode 1.77.3 (Code)","X-Market-User-Id":"3a05ee7e-5b7c-4599-923b-6e791e4414fb","VSCode-SessionId":"fa37bf3e09bffc09b5ad1400b06b2614c617408f7e97d56fffe96d2b23e8cd17","Content-Type":"application/json","Accept":"application/json;api-version=3.0-preview.1","Accept-Encoding":"gzip","Content-Length":"261"}
2023-05-05 15:05:25.302 [trace] node #35: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/_apis/public/gallery/extensionquery - end POST 403 {"server":"squid/3.5.12","mime-version":"1.0","date":"Fri, 05 May 2023 13:05:25 GMT","content-type":"text/html;charset=utf-8","content-length":"3522","x-squid-error":"ERR_ACCESS_DENIED 0","vary":"Accept-Language","content-language":"en","x-cache":"MISS from our-company-server","x-cache-lookup":"NONE from our-company-server:8080","via":"1.1 our-company-server (squid/3.5.12)","connection":"close"}

Server

2023-05-05 15:05:25.295 [trace] ExtensionManagementService.refreshReportedCache
2023-05-05 15:05:25.295 [trace] resolveShellEnv(): running (macOS/Linux)
2023-05-05 15:05:25.299 [trace] ExtensionManagementService.refreshControlCache - failed to get extension control manifest
2023-05-05 15:05:25.299 [trace] resolveShellEnv(): running (macOS/Linux)
2023-05-05 15:05:25.302 [error] Failed to install extension. charliermarsh.ruff
2023-05-05 15:05:25.302 [error] Incompatible: Can't install 'charliermarsh.ruff' extension because it is not compatible with the current version of Visual Studio Code (version 1.77.3).
    at ne.G (/home/my-user/.vscode-server/bin/704ed70d4fd1c6bd6342c436f1ede30d1cff4710/out/vs/server/node/server.main.js:142:32663)
    at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:96:5)
    at async ne.installFromGallery (/home/my-user/.vscode-server/bin/704ed70d4fd1c6bd6342c436f1ede30d1cff4710/out/vs/server/node/server.main.js:142:24184)
2023-05-05 15:05:25.457 [trace] Started scanning user extensions {"$mid":1,"fsPath":"/home/my-user/.vscode-server/extensions/extensions.json","external":"file:///home/my-user/.vscode-server/extensions/extensions.json","path":"/home/my-user/.vscode-server/extensions/extensions.json","scheme":"file"}
2023-05-05 15:05:25.474 [trace] Scanned user extensions: 13

Telemetry

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[NMertsch]

As suggested here, I solved it by adding this to my settings.json:

{
    "remote.downloadExtensionsLocally": true,
}

This is equivalent to the setting Features -> Remote -> Remote: Download Extensions Locally.

Thank you again, looking forward to finally use this extension everywhere!

[saurabh-pradhan-db]

wow. This does fix thing for me. Working on a remote linux mechine from a window's host.