Code-server: 404 when code-server is downloading a newer release

[keiththomps]

When prompted to install a new version through the UI I'm receiving a 404 error downloading the newest release. It appears to be caused by the versions 3.30 and later being tagged with a v3.3.0 but the associated release file name doesn't include the v.

Here's the URL being used to download the newest release vs the newest release's actual URL:

Attempted (404 error): https://github.com/cdr/code-server/releases/download/v3.4.0/code-server-v3.4.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
Actual: https://github.com/cdr/code-server/releases/download/v3.4.0/code-server-3.4.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz

This could be "fixed" in the code here, but it might just be a consistency issue that can be addressed moving forward by adjusting the tag names and files to match.

• Web Browser: Chrome
• Local OS: macOS 10.15.4
• Remote OS: CentOS 7.8.2003
• Remote Architecture: x86_64
• code-server --version: 3.2.0

[hasip-timurtas]

The same for me

[liaocyintl]

The same for me +1

[nhooyr]

Should just work now!

[nhooyr]

Published https://github.com/cdr/code-server/releases/tag/3.4.0

Sorry about this!

[KolyaKorruptis]

I think this is a misunderstanding. The URL requested by code-server has a "v" before the version number, inside the file name. And that's what we need to update. A filename with "v3..4.0" in it.
Removing the "v" from the tag won't help unfortunately.

When this is fixed, these URLs should work:
https://github.com/cdr/code-server/releases/download/v3.4.0/code-server-v3.4.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
https://github.com/cdr/code-server/releases/download/v3.4.0/code-server-v3.4.0-linux-arm64.tar.gz

[nhooyr]

It has a v because it’s filling the latest release tag into the template. With the v removed it should just work.

[nhooyr]

Argh this is going to break the install script though. 🤦🏻‍♂️

[nhooyr]

Fixing.

[KolyaKorruptis]

In any case, it didn't find an arm64 release.

[nhooyr]

Should be fixed as part of the install script fixes.

[nhooyr]

i.e literally just fixed a few seconds ago

[KolyaKorruptis]

It's still failing here.
Requested URL: https://github.com/cdr/code-server/releases/download/3.4.0/code-server-3.4.0-linux-arm64.tar.gz
Actual URL: https://github.com/cdr/code-server/releases/download/3.4.0/code-server-3.4.0-linux-arm64.tar

So close!

[nhooyr]

****

macOS ungzipped it automatically. 🤦

[KolyaKorruptis]

Hehe. Thank you for your patience.

[nhooyr]

@KolyaKorruptis No thank you!

Please give it a shot now!

[KolyaKorruptis]

I'm on it. It prompted for the update, I accepted and waited a while, then got a message "Failed to fetch". Same on the second try.

Then VSCode said it lost the connection. When I closed it and tried to run it again, it wouldn't start anymore. /bin/code-server: 25: exec: /usr/lib/code-server/../lib/node: not found

Maybe it's my weird setup. I'm on Ubuntu which runs inside Termux Proot on a Smartphone.
At the end of the screenshot you can see the files in the code-server dir.

[KolyaKorruptis]

It seems to have gotten the download anyway. But the installation went sideways somehow.

[KolyaKorruptis]

I installed 3.4.0 manually and got the same error.
Then I manually installed 3.3.1 and got the same error.
Then I reverted to 3.2.0 which worked. I guess this is one of the breaking changes in v3.3.0 that I'm running into.

[nhooyr]

Ahh I see. The problem is you're symlinking to the symlink.
If you change your symlink in /bin/code-server to point to /usr/lib/code-server/bin/code-server it'll work.

[nhooyr]

I'll be sure to fix recursive symlinks in the entry script in the next release.

[KolyaKorruptis]

I updated again from 3.2.0 and everything just worked flawlessly, presumably due to your fix for recursive symlinking. Thank you!

[nhooyr]

Glad its working for you!

Oddly enough though I haven't merged my change in and replaced the releases so I'm not sure why it started working for you.

[KolyaKorruptis]

Not sure then. I just replaced the symlink, as you suggested, but only after a successful update.

[nhooyr]

New release is out!

[HuJK]

It told me Do not use, scroll down to v3.4.1, what happen If I use it? Because I use a script to auto update code-server

curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/cdr/code-server/releases/latest \
| grep "browser_download_url.*linux-x86_64.tar.gz" \
| cut -d : -f 2,3 \
| tr -d \" \
| wget -i - -O code-server.tar.gz

and it seems work fine. Just curious will it cause any problem that idk if I use 3.4.1 instead of v3.4.1?

[nhooyr]

@HuJK Only the tags with v prefixed will be kept in future versions. There isn't anything that'll go wrong now but please don't rely on them to avoid breakage.