main: silent extension activation failure

• Extension fails to start but no error is showed to the user.
• Document language appears to be Ansible and syntax highlighting works, only adding more to the confusion
• There is no Ansible output channel, indication of crash
• Extensio host output channel contains the unpleasant details:

[2022-03-02 09:54:39.821] [exthost] [error] Activating extension redhat.ansible failed due to an error:
[2022-03-02 09:54:39.822] [exthost] [error] Error: Cannot find module './features/vault'
Require stack:
- c:\Users\sorin\.vscode\extensions\redhat.ansible-0.7.1\out\client\src\extension.js
- c:\Users\sorin\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\resources\app\out\vs\loader.js
- c:\Users\sorin\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\resources\app\out\bootstrap-amd.js
- c:\Users\sorin\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\resources\app\out\bootstrap-fork.js
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:934:15)
    at Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:779:27)
    at Function.f._load (electron/js2c/asar_bundle.js:5:12913)
    at Function.i._load (c:\Users\sorin\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\resources\app\out\vs\workbench\services\extensions\node\extensionHostProcess.js:112:32271)
    at Function.p._load (c:\Users\sorin\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\resources\app\out\vs\workbench\services\extensions\node\extensionHostProcess.js:112:28855)
    at Function.v._load (c:\Users\sorin\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\resources\app\out\vs\workbench\services\extensions\node\extensionHostProcess.js:107:60382)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1006:19)
    at h (c:\Users\sorin\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\resources\app\out\vs\loader.js:4:699)
    at Object.<anonymous> (c:\Users\sorin\.vscode\extensions\redhat.ansible-0.7.1\out\client\src\extension.js:26:17)
    at Module.u._compile (c:\Users\sorin\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\resources\app\out\vs\loader.js:4:1313)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1155:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:982:32)
    at Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:823:14)
    at Function.f._load (electron/js2c/asar_bundle.js:5:12913)
    at Function.i._load (c:\Users\sorin\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\resources\app\out\vs\workbench\services\extensions\node\extensionHostProcess.js:112:32271)
    at Function.p._load (c:\Users\sorin\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\resources\app\out\vs\workbench\services\extensions\node\extensionHostProcess.js:112:28855)
    at Function.v._load (c:\Users\sorin\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\resources\app\out\vs\workbench\services\extensions\node\extensionHostProcess.js:107:60382)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1006:19)
    at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:88:18)
    at Function.r [as __$__nodeRequire] (c:\Users\sorin\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\resources\app\out\vs\loader.js:5:101)
    at w._loadCommonJSModule (c:\Users\sorin\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\resources\app\out\vs\workbench\services\extensions\node\extensionHostProcess.js:112:30425)
    at w._doActivateExtension (c:\Users\sorin\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\resources\app\out\vs\workbench\services\extensions\node\extensionHostProcess.js:98:13341)
    at w._activateExtension (c:\Users\sorin\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\resources\app\out\vs\workbench\services\extensions\node\extensionHostProcess.js:98:12293)
    at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:93:5)
    at async Promise.all (index 0)
    at w.$activate (c:\Users\sorin\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\resources\app\out\vs\workbench\services\extensions\node\extensionHostProcess.js:98:21810)

Update: apparently vsix archive contains only extension.js file and missing the other nearby js files.

Not sure when this happened but it does highlight a fatal flaws in our testing.

[ssbarnea]

Please install 0.11.11, i fixed the bad release. Now I also working on introducing some preventive measures for avoiding the same accident from happening again. That is the 2nd time it happens, the first time was back in March.

Funny aspect is that the artifact from GHA was good, only the one produced by Jenkins was buggy. The plan is to change Jenkins pipeline to just publish GHA artifact and avoid building it again.

A secondary goal is to make a pre-release every day, if during that day there was a change merged on main branch.

[ianburrowes]

Also stumbled onto this issue with v0.11.10, on Win11 / WSL2 after wondering why my Ansible syntax highlighting had suddenly stopped working. Downgrading to the previous v0.10.0 got it working again.