Extension Host keeps crashing

Issue Type: Bug

After the last update to 1.36.1 of vscode I started to have the Extension Host failing and crashing every while and then, that’s at least once every 2 hours. I’ve never had this behaviour before. The console has the following error with every crash:

Error Python Extension: 2019-07-14 07:06:06: Failed to parse interpreter information for 'C:\Users\USER\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\python.exe' with JSON Python was not found but can be installed from the Microsoft Store: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?linkID=2082640 [SyntaxError: Unexpected token P in JSON at position 0	at JSON.parse (<anonymous>)	at p.getInterpreterInformation (C:\Users\abdul\.vscode\extensions\ms-python.python-2019.6.24221\out\client\extension.js:75:287807)]
t.log @ workbench.main.js:sourcemap:240

Extension version: 2019.6.24221 VS Code version: Code 1.36.1 (2213894ea0415ee8c85c5eea0d0ff81ecc191529, 2019-07-08T22:59:35.033Z) OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.18936

System Info

Item	Value
CPUs	Intel® Core™ i7-6650U CPU @ 2.20GHz (4 x 2208)
GPU Status	2d_canvas: enabled flash_3d: enabled flash_stage3d: enabled flash_stage3d_baseline: enabled gpu_compositing: enabled multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on native_gpu_memory_buffers: disabled_software oop_rasterization: disabled_off protected_video_decode: unavailable_off rasterization: enabled skia_deferred_display_list: disabled_off skia_renderer: disabled_off surface_synchronization: enabled_on video_decode: enabled viz_display_compositor: disabled_off webgl: enabled webgl2: enabled
Load (avg)	undefined
Memory (System)	15.93GB (7.76GB free)
Process Argv	–file-uri file:///d%3A/devel/limp/limp.code-workspace
Screen Reader	no
VM	0%

[karrtikr]

Thanks for the info. Every person with ‘Extension Host keeps crashing’ sort-of issue can have extension crashing for different reasons. So closing this, feel free to report with a new issue if you face it the next time.

[mahmoudajawad]

So, I dumped this issue for a while when I started to see decreased number of crashes occurring until it’s almost gone. Not entirely sure, but I’ve spent the last week way more relaxed with almost no crashes of this kind.

I don’t know what to attribute this for, but I had much of plugins enabled and almost disabled all of them, which bring me to think this could be an issue related to overuse of the extensions with vscode. However, I’ve never at any given time stopped Python extension, so it’s safe to assume it has nothing to do with it.

I’m keeping this opened as I see another person reporting the same issue, however if required it can be closed.