Background task from Git panel and Debugging panel blocked in loading position

[fsimonAramis]

Type: Bug

After launching the debugger or modifying the code, the source control and the Run and Debug sections switch to a loading version (with the clock icon), and it becomes impossible to restart the debugger or have extensions like Copilot working. You have to restart VSCode for it to work again.

VS Code version: Code 1.95.3 (f1a4fb1, 2024-11-13T14:50:04.152Z)
OS version: Linux x64 6.8.0-49-generic
Modes:

System Info

Item	Value
CPUs	12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-1245U (12 x 517)
GPU Status	2d_canvas: enabled canvas_oop_rasterization: enabled_on 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_graphite: disabled_off video_decode: enabled video_encode: disabled_software vulkan: disabled_off webgl: enabled webgl2: enabled webgpu: disabled_off webnn: disabled_off
Load (avg)	1, 1, 1
Memory (System)	15.31GB (7.12GB free)
Process Argv	--crash-reporter-id cb1f3462-285f-414a-a93c-bd613c214383
Screen Reader	no
VM	0%
DESKTOP_SESSION	ubuntu
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP	Unity
XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP	ubuntu
XDG_SESSION_TYPE	wayland

Extensions (6)

Extension	Author (truncated)	Version
copilot	Git	1.246.0
copilot-chat	Git	0.22.4
shell-debugger	mni	0.0.2
debugpy	ms-	2024.14.0
python	ms-	2024.22.0
vscode-pylance	ms-	2024.12.1

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[vs-code-engineering]

Thanks for creating this issue! It looks like you may be using an old version of VS Code, the latest stable release is 1.96.0. Please try upgrading to the latest version and checking whether this issue remains.

Happy Coding!

[fsimonAramis]

Before I use the new version but I also have the problem, I try to rollback to identify if the problem is coming from the upgrade version but not, problem is still here.

[cubesnyc]

Also started seeing this problem yesterday.

[roblourens]

So you do see it in 1.96? What language are you debugging?

Can you share a screenshot? Not totally clear what you see..

[fsimonAramis]

 I'm working on my vscode project with or without the debugger turned on. After several code modifications, the source control becomes pending, and then it is impossible to restart the debugger, to have copilot inline or in chat, and the source control never recovers as it should without restarting VSCode completely. Sometimes source control and debugger are in pending status, it depends. But each time I need to reboot VSCode. I tried to uninstall / reinstall VSCode, remove cache from VsCode, but the problem persists. 

[roblourens]

Can you try disabling extensions (eg F1 > "Reload With Extensions Disabled") and see if it still happens?

It sounds lik this happens even when just editing files, not using the debugger, right?

I'm guessing that some extension has the extension host process stuck. Do you see a process stuck with high CPU when this happens? You can check Help > Open Process Explorer to see