tsserver crashes after a few minutes

I’ve been trying to make this plugin work for my team. I hear great things about it. Unfortunately the TS node process keeps crashing after a few minutes, and I could use some assistance to debug it.

When I first start up sublime, ps aux | grep node shows the process is started: /usr/local/bin/node /Users/aj/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Packages/TypeScript/tsserver/tsserver.js

If I make syntax errors or try to rename things, it mostly seems to work. ps aux | grep node shows the process is still running.

After a few minutes though, it stops working. ps aux | grep node no longer shows the process running, so it seems that the TS server has died.

Looking at the sublime console, ctrl-backtick, I see the following stacktrace. There’s no other error output:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/aj/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Packages/TypeScript/typescript/listeners/idle.py", line 22, in _check_timeout_count
    self.handler()
  File "/Users/aj/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Packages/TypeScript/typescript/listeners/idle.py", line 79, in on_selection_idle
    self.request_document_highlights(view, info)
  File "/Users/aj/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Packages/TypeScript/typescript/listeners/idle.py", line 187, in request_document_highlights
    cli.service.async_document_highlights(view.file_name(), location, self.highlight_occurrences)
  File "/Users/aj/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Packages/TypeScript/typescript/libs/service_proxy.py", line 259, in async_document_highlights
    self.__comm.sendCmdAsync(json_str, on_completed, req_dict["seq"])
  File "/Users/aj/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Packages/TypeScript/typescript/libs/node_client.py", line 111, in sendCmdAsync
    if self.postCmd(cmd):
  File "/Users/aj/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Packages/TypeScript/typescript/libs/node_client.py", line 142, in postCmd
    self.server_proc.stdin.write(cmd.encode())
BrokenPipeError: [Errno 32] Broken pipe

This also seems to confirm that the process has died, but there’s no mention of why.

Is there anything I can do to debug this? I haven’t been able to find the stdout/stderr logs for the ts server to see if there is anything relevant there.

I’m not sure if it’s relevant, but https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript-Sublime-Plugin/blob/2da61f59d231b5442e1a7136aedcb9705ad099e2/typescript/libs/node_client.py#L267 is not redirecting stderr, which might explain the lack of error output in the console?

Thanks for reading & any assistance.

[cindyliu-yb]

have the same issue here!

[zhengbli]

Sorry for the delay. You can set an environmental variable TSS_LOG to a string value that looks like: "{ level: 'verbose'}" then launch sublime from the same terminal. After the editing session you will find a “.logxxx” file under Sublime Text 3\Packages\TypeScript\tsserver folder. Try to repro the issue and paste the log file here, it would help a lot.

BTW I just drafted another release with TS 2.0 with many other fixes, which are likely solve your issue. Please try the new version after package control updates it and let us know. Thank you!