GitHub Copilot v1.189.0 + WSL Autocomplete Broken

[lancewilhelm]

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It appears that the autocomplete feature for the Copilot extension for VSCode in v1.189.0 is broken when using WSL. The icon in the footer status bar disappears, and autocomplete no longer functions. However, other queries and chats work as expected. This appears not to be an issue when working on projects located on the native Windows system. Rolling back to v.1.188.0 fixed the issue.

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[vrfox]

Just was searching for this issue and found this... following this thread

[agbrettpittman]

bumping this. I Upgraded earlier and have had this exact same issue. Also worth noting View > Output > Copilot does not output anything useful

[lancewilhelm]

Agree. Didn't see anything there either.

[scottarver]

I found this in the extension host (remote) output

2024-05-10 13:56:42.998 [error] Activating extension GitHub.copilot failed due to an error:
2024-05-10 13:56:42.998 [error] TypeError: Invalid version. Must be a string. Got type "undefined".

[JamyDev]

Full stack trace:

2024-05-10 20:42:42.156 [error] TypeError: Invalid version. Must be a string. Got type "undefined".
    at new SemVer (/home/user/.vscode-server/extensions/github.copilot-1.189.0/node_modules/semver/classes/semver.js:19:13)
    at compare (/home/user/.vscode-server/extensions/github.copilot-1.189.0/node_modules/semver/functions/compare.js:3:3)
    at lt (/home/user/.vscode-server/extensions/github.copilot-1.189.0/node_modules/semver/functions/lt.js:2:29)
    at Function.create (/home/user/.vscode-server/extensions/github.copilot-1.189.0/extension/src/electronFetcher.ts:15:13)
    at createExtensionContext (/home/user/.vscode-server/extensions/github.copilot-1.189.0/extension/src/extension.ts:222:38)
    at activate (/home/user/.vscode-server/extensions/github.copilot-1.189.0/extension/src/extension.ts:98:23)
    at Function.kb (/home/user/.vscode-server/cli/servers/Stable-dc96b837cf6bb4af9cd736aa3af08cf8279f7685/server/out/vs/workbench/api/node/extensionHostProcess.js:161:13465)
    at Function.jb (/home/user/.vscode-server/cli/servers/Stable-dc96b837cf6bb4af9cd736aa3af08cf8279f7685/server/out/vs/workbench/api/node/extensionHostProcess.js:161:13175)
    at /home/user/.vscode-server/cli/servers/Stable-dc96b837cf6bb4af9cd736aa3af08cf8279f7685/server/out/vs/workbench/api/node/extensionHostProcess.js:161:11197
    at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)
    at h.n (/home/user/.vscode-server/cli/servers/Stable-dc96b837cf6bb4af9cd736aa3af08cf8279f7685/server/out/vs/workbench/api/node/extensionHostProcess.js:145:6281)
    at h.m (/home/user/.vscode-server/cli/servers/Stable-dc96b837cf6bb4af9cd736aa3af08cf8279f7685/server/out/vs/workbench/api/node/extensionHostProcess.js:145:6244)
    at h.l (/home/user/.vscode-server/cli/servers/Stable-dc96b837cf6bb4af9cd736aa3af08cf8279f7685/server/out/vs/workbench/api/node/extensionHostProcess.js:145:5701)

[simingy]

bump - rolling back in WSL to 1.188 works.

[lancewilhelm]

Looks like a fix is out with v1.190.0

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/123301#discussioncomment-9389800