Installing the extension in the remote host on WSL1 fails with EACCESS on renaming

[darkmattercoder]

I reinstalled the vscode server in my WSL1 environment. After the reinstallation, I re-installed all local extensions into the remote WSL environment as well. However, the cpptools and the cpp-extpack extensions are the two extensions which cannot be properly installed.

All other extensions I installed into WSL were successfully installed.

It does not matter whether I start the installation from the ui or via the CLI. It always gets an EACCESS Error on renaming the extension:

code --install-extension /c/Users/user/Downloads/cpptools-linux.vsix
Installing extensions...
EACCES: EACCES: permission denied, rename '/home/user/.vscode-server/extensions/.da3c4b76-1cfc-470f-8ea3-260c1f44f3af' -> '/home/user/.vscode-server/extensions/ms-vscode.cpptools-1.18.5'
    at V.C (/home/user/.vscode-server/bin/903b1e9d8990623e3d7da1df3d33db3e42d80eda/out/vs/server/node/server.main.js:169:77287)
    at async V.extractUserExtension (/home/user/.vscode-server/bin/903b1e9d8990623e3d7da1df3d33db3e42d80eda/out/vs/server/node/server.main.js:169:74800)
    at async ue.u (/home/user/.vscode-server/bin/903b1e9d8990623e3d7da1df3d33db3e42d80eda/out/vs/server/node/server.main.js:169:80893)
    at async ue.x (/home/user/.vscode-server/bin/903b1e9d8990623e3d7da1df3d33db3e42d80eda/out/vs/server/node/server.main.js:169:84276)
    at async ue.h (/home/user/.vscode-server/bin/903b1e9d8990623e3d7da1df3d33db3e42d80eda/out/vs/server/node/server.main.js:169:80426)
    at async ue.h (/home/user/.vscode-server/bin/903b1e9d8990623e3d7da1df3d33db3e42d80eda/out/vs/server/node/server.main.js:169:83306) {
  code: 'EACCES'
}
Failed Installing Extensions: file:///c/Users/BauerJ2/Downloads/cpptools-linux.vsix

I tried the rough approach to chmod -R 777 the ~/.vscode-server directory to ensure that it does not have to do anything with file permissions but to no avail. The error persists.

Vscode Version:

 code --version
1.86.2
903b1e9d8990623e3d7da1df3d33db3e42d80eda
x64

Windows:

[System.Environment]::OSVersion.Version

Major  Minor  Build  Revision
-----  -----  -----  --------
6      1      7601   65536

WSL1 Distro is debian bookworm.

I am aware of microsoft/WSL#1956

I cannot switch to WSL2 for several reasons.

All other extensions installed without issue.

Any ideas?

[Colengms]

Hi @darkmattercoder . It doesn't look like the C/C++ extension is successfully installed, so the issue would seem to be related to VS Code directly. I'd suggest opening an issue in the VS Code repo. Your issue would seem to be related to user permission issues during the extension installation process.