Fresh install on alpine returns 500

OS/Web Information

• Web Browser: firefox 89.0.1 (64-bit)
• Local OS: Alpine Linux v3.14
• Remote OS: Alpine Linux v3.14 (same as local)
• Remote Architecture: x64
• code-server --version: 3.11.0 4e8cd09ef0412dfc7b148b7639a692e20e4fd6dd

Steps to reproduce

1. Fresh install code-server the npm way:

apk add npm alpine-sdk bash libstdc++ libc6-compat
npm config set python python3
npm install -g --unsafe-perm code-server

1. Open localhost:8080 in a browser, on the same system
2. Provide the password automatically generated in ~/.config/code-server/config.yaml

Expected

The browser is able to connect to and display vscode.

Actual

The error 500 VS Code failed to load. exited unexpectedly with code 0 is displayed on screen.

Logs

# code-server --log trace
[2021-08-01T00:37:46.835Z] trace child:16034 got message {"message":{"type":"handshake","args":{"_":[],"bind-addr":"127.0.0.1:8080","auth":"password","password":"2f5b20cead0a8f27ac2b84ad","config":"/root/.config/code-server/config.yaml","log":"trace","user-data-dir":"/root/.local/share/code-server","extensions-dir":"/root/.local/share/code-server/extensions","verbose":true,"host":"127.0.0.1","port":8080,"proxy-domain":[],"usingEnvPassword":false,"usingEnvHashedPassword":false}}}
[2021-08-01T00:37:46.838Z] info  code-server 3.11.0 4e8cd09ef0412dfc7b148b7639a692e20e4fd6dd
[2021-08-01T00:37:46.838Z] info  Using user-data-dir ~/.local/share/code-server
[2021-08-01T00:37:46.839Z] trace Using extensions-dir ~/.local/share/code-server/extensions
[2021-08-01T00:37:46.852Z] info  Using config file ~/.config/code-server/config.yaml
[2021-08-01T00:37:46.852Z] info  HTTP server listening on http://127.0.0.1:8080
[2021-08-01T00:37:46.852Z] info    - Authentication is enabled
[2021-08-01T00:37:46.852Z] info      - Using password from ~/.config/code-server/config.yaml
[2021-08-01T00:37:46.852Z] info    - Not serving HTTPS 
[2021-08-01T00:37:50.666Z] trace heartbeat
[2021-08-01T00:37:50.685Z] debug forking vs code...
[2021-08-01T00:37:51.025Z] error VS Code exited unexpectedly with code 0
[2021-08-01T00:37:51.876Z] debug forking vs code...
[2021-08-01T00:37:52.216Z] error VS Code exited unexpectedly with code 0

Screenshot

Notes

I don’t know if this is related, but the only user on my system is root (~ is /root).

What’s weird is, if I install code-server in a custom docker image using exactly the above script, I can actually start the server and connect to it without any issue (I encountered some issues when trying to use the c++ extension in a docker container, so I wanted to try a bare metal install).

[fee1-dead]

Okay so I tried again and it all worked. The key for me was to do everything on the root user, have both npm config and yarn config set, and I also took a peek at the libc6-compat package from alpine, the package sets a few symlinks and I have also done that (we don’t have that package for void).

I can now run the server with my non-root user, the terminal also works. Thank you for the information!

[code-asher]

I tried on Alpine and it worked. I followed https://github.com/cdr/code-server/blob/main/docs/npm.md#alpine but I had to additionally install python3 and I used yarn to set the config option instead of npm.

docker run --rm -it -p 8080:8080 alpine sh
ldd --version # Confirm musl
apk add alpine-sdk bash libstdc++ libc6-compat yarn python3
yarn config set python python3
yarn global add code-server
code-server --host 0.0.0.0 --auth none

From there I went to localhost:8080 in my browser and made sure the terminal worked (which it did).