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Language server fails to start

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Type: Bug

After the most recent update to VS Code (1.72.2), the Terraform language server fails to load, with the following message in the log:

Launching language server: /home/vscode/.vscode-server/extensions/hashicorp.terraform-2.24.3-linux-x64/bin/terraform-ls 
Failure to start terraform-ls. Please check your configuration settings and reload this window
[Error - <date and time>] Connection to server got closed. Server will not be restarted.

The following error messages are displayed:

Extension version: 2.24.3 VS Code version: Code 1.72.2 (d045a5eda657f4d7b676dedbfa7aab8207f8a075, 2022-10-12T22:15:18.074Z) OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19044 Modes: Sandboxed: No Remote OS version: Linux x64 5.10.102.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2

System Info

Item	Value
CPUs	11th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-1165G7 @ 2.80GHz (8 x 1690)
GPU Status	2d_canvas: enabled canvas_oop_rasterization: disabled_off direct_rendering_display_compositor: disabled_off_ok gpu_compositing: enabled multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on opengl: enabled_on rasterization: enabled raw_draw: disabled_off_ok skia_renderer: enabled_on video_decode: enabled video_encode: enabled vulkan: disabled_off webgl: enabled webgl2: enabled webgpu: disabled_off
Load (avg)	undefined
Memory (System)	31.41GB (15.06GB free)
Process Argv	–folder-uri=vscode-remote://wsl+Ubuntu/home/steve/projects/olde/infrastructure-application --remote=wsl+Ubuntu --crash-reporter-id 5c8fb19a-236a-4ded-9222-4cfc61978f43
Screen Reader	no
VM	0%

Item	Value
Remote	Dev Container: Ubuntu
OS	Linux x64 5.10.102.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2
CPUs	11th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-1165G7 @ 2.80GHz (8 x 1689)
Memory (System)	15.63GB (13.97GB free)
VM	0%

Issue Analytics

State:
Created a year ago
Comments:10 (4 by maintainers)

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GizzmoAsuscommented, Oct 19, 2022

Hey, I’ve been having the same issue but was able to resolve it by adding serve to the language server args list in settings.json as follows:

    "terraform.languageServer": {
        "enabled": true,
        "args": [
            "serve",
        ]
    },

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