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Integrated terminal fails to launch: execvp(3) failed.: Permission denied

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When I try to open a new integrated terminal (bash) the terminal process fails to launch with error:

execvp(3) failed.: Permission denied

VS Code version: Code - Insiders 1.57.0-insider (4f3d865a6b46a4ead49cf83fe1c30d95d0a34220, 2021-05-31T05:13:16.692Z) OS version: Linux x64 4.15.0-143-generic

System Info

Item	Value
CPUs	Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2620 0 @ 2.00GHz (24 x 1249)
GPU Status	2d_canvas: enabled gpu_compositing: enabled multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on oop_rasterization: disabled_off opengl: enabled_on rasterization: disabled_software skia_renderer: enabled_on video_decode: disabled_software vulkan: disabled_off webgl: enabled webgl2: enabled
Load (avg)	1, 1, 1
Memory (System)	31.34GB (5.32GB free)
Process Argv	–disable-extensions --crash-reporter-id a8517064-3fb8-42aa-bb9b-19f723e00b1c
Screen Reader	no
VM	0%
DESKTOP_SESSION	unity
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP	Unity
XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP	unity
XDG_SESSION_TYPE	x11

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Created 2 years ago
Reactions:4
Comments:24 (8 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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Tyriarcommented, Jun 29, 2021

This comment is revealing:

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/126017#issuecomment-861379341

FWIW - adding the following setting fixed things for me:
    "terminal.integrated.profiles.linux": {
        "bash": {
            "path": "/bin/bash"
        },

    },
Which by default just points to bash - without a path.

Happens on macOS and Linux, assigning to June if we have time to investigate.

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hustzydcommented, Oct 8, 2021

This comment is revealing: #126017 (comment) FWIW - adding the following setting fixed things for me:
    "terminal.integrated.profiles.linux": {
        "bash": {
            "path": "/bin/bash"
        },

    },
This helped me resolve the issue with the following variation
"terminal.integrated.profiles.osx": {
        "zsh": {
            "path": "/bin/zsh"
        },
    },

works for me