Integrated Terminal not loading

[willielee]

• VSCode Version: Code 1.17.2 (b813d12, 2017-10-16T13:59:46.104Z)
• OS Version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.14393
• Extensions: none

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Steps to Reproduce:

1. Ctrl + ` (to start Integrated Terminal)

When starting Integrated Terminal, prompt never appears.

Errors in Developer Tools Console:

[Violation] Added non-passive event listener to a scroll-blocking 'wheel' event. Consider marking
event handler as 'passive' to make the page more responsive.
C:\Program Files\Microsoft VS Code\resources\app\node_modules\xterm\lib\Terminal.js:1379 [Violation] Added non-passive event listener to a scroll-blocking 'touchstart' event. Consider marking event handler as 'passive' to make the page more responsive.
C:\Program Files\Microsoft VS Code\resources\app\node_modules\xterm\lib\Terminal.js:1379 [Violation] Added non-passive event listener to a scroll-blocking 'touchmove' event. Consider marking event handler as 'passive' to make the page more responsive.
scorer.ts:133 [Violation] Added non-passive event listener to a scroll-blocking 'touchstart' event. Consider marking event handler as 'passive' to make the page more responsive.
scorer.ts:133 [Violation] Added non-passive event listener to a scroll-blocking 'touchmove' event. Consider marking event handler as 'passive' to make the page more responsive.
scorer.ts:133 [Violation] Added non-passive event listener to a scroll-blocking 'touchstart' event. Consider marking event handler as 'passive' to make the page more responsive.
scorer.ts:133 [Violation] Added non-passive event listener to a scroll-blocking 'touchmove' event. Consider marking event handler as 'passive' to make the page more responsive.
scorer.ts:133 [Violation] Added non-passive event listener to a scroll-blocking 'touchstart' event. Consider marking event handler as 'passive' to make the page more responsive.
scorer.ts:133 [Violation] Added non-passive event listener to a scroll-blocking 'touchmove' event. Consider marking event handler as 'passive' to make the page more responsive.
scorer.ts:133 [Violation] Added non-passive event listener to a scroll-blocking 'touchstart' event. Consider marking event handler as 'passive' to make the page more responsive.
scorer.ts:133 [Violation] Added non-passive event listener to a scroll-blocking 'touchmove' event. Consider marking event handler as 'passive' to make the page more responsive.

Attempts at correcting issue:

1. Reinstalled VS Code (most recent and Insiders)
   • including deleting $HOME\AppData\Roaming\Code
2. Resizing pane/window (this is not a duplicate of terminal not painting until resize #34554)

[Tyriar]

@willielee what's your shell set as in your settings? This happens when a sysnative path is used on a 64-bit machine instead of a system32 path.

[teom10]

I have the same issue :(

[willielee]

@Tyriar

Settings:

"terminal.integrated.shell.windows": "C:\\WINDOWS\\System32\\WindowsPowerShell\\v1.0\\powershell.exe",

Also tried:

1. Copied and pasted that into Run and Powershell opens.
2. Edited User Settings to use bash (Git Bash), same result, terminal does not load.
3. Also able to run Git Bash.

[Tyriar]

I've seen a few reports of these and they seem to all be on Windows. From my knowledge there are a few ways that you can get into this status:

• You're using an invalid path as your shell, a common example of this is using sysnative over system32 when on 64-bit Windows and the 64-bit VS Code client
• The shell crashes immediately (related to the first point)

[jky7]

I'm experiencing the same issue, I get this message as well when it tries to open the terminal

"The terminal process terminated with exit code: 3221225794"

this happens regardless of what terminal I use, tried powershell, cmd, ubuntu

[pexxi]

Similar issue in Mac too.
Terminal stays blank, but can be restored by switching to a different tab and then back to terminal tab.
This seems to happen especially after Mac is waking up from sleep.

[Tyriar]

@pexxi I think that's a different problem, caused by Chromium losing/corrupting the texture after sleeping (it can also happen in the minimap).

[Tyriar]

Duplicate #43169 (comment)