Debugger hangs on break points in PowerShell code

[weinand]

From @wmc777 on February 14, 2017 18:40

• VSCode Version: Code 1.9.1 (f9d0c687ff2ea7aabd85fb9a43129117c0ecf519, 2017-02-09T00:26:45.394Z)
• OS Version: Windows_NT ia32 6.1.7601
• Extensions:

Extension	Author	Version
azuretoolsforvscode	bradygaster	1.2.1
PowerShell	ms-vscode	0.9.0
azurerm-vscode-tools	msazurermtools	0.3.4

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Steps to Reproduce:

1. Set a break point

2. Press F10 to step the break point

3. The debugger hangs and Code must be restarted

4. Set a break point on a different line than the one that caused the debugger to hang.

5. Press F10 to step the break point

6. The debugger hangs and Code must be restarted

The same PowerShell code runs fine if there is not break points set.

Copied from original issue: microsoft/vscode#20608

[rkeithhill]

@wmc777 Do you have any watch expressions defined in the Debug view? If so, that is a known issue that is being worked on for the next release.

[wmc777]

No, I did not have watch expressions defined just had a couple of break points set. I did not have this issue with version 1.8.1.

[daviwil]

@wmc777 can you capture verbose logs while debugging and send them to us?

https://github.com/PowerShell/vscode-powershell#2-capture-verbose-logs-and-send-them-to-us

[wmc777]

I captured the logs and will send it to you via email. Here is an example of the hang.

[wmc777]

@daviwil I sent the the captured logs to you in an email. Did you have a chance to review them?

[daviwil]

Looking at the GIF, there's a watch expression defined there so this could be the same issue. I'll investigate briefly before we ship 0.10.0.

[yobyot]

Debugger still hangs in 1.10.2 for me with no watch expressions explicitly set. 95% of my ps1s use either the AWSPowerShell cmdlets (Windows) or AWSPowerShell.NetCore cmdlets (macOS). I wonder if these are part of the issue.

It's a shame vscode can't debug PowerShell worth a spit.

[daviwil]

@yobyot Please send logs so I can look into your issue:

https://github.com/PowerShell/vscode-powershell#2-capture-verbose-logs-and-send-them-to-us

[yobyot]

Hi, David.

Log files attached. Thanks for taking a look.

vscode-log.zip