Vscode-cmake-tools: Hangs with 'CMake Tools initializing...: Creating backend' if opt-in ignored

[DavidA2014]

• Operating System: Centos 7.6
• CMake Version: 3.13.1
• VSCode Version: 1.35.1
• CMake Tools Extension Version: 1.1.3
• Compiler/Toolchain: RH Devtoolset 7

This occured when running a remote SSH session on Centos 7.6 from Windows 10.

After opening a folder, CMake Tools hung with:

CMake Tools initializing...: Creating backend

The log contained:

'Asking user for permission to user Rollbar...'

This was for a new CMake Tools install. I realised that I hadn't opted in for sharing debug info for CMake Tools. The pop-up asking for that had disappeared and CMake tools was hanging.

It was hard to identify what was the problem. I think this needs to be made more user friendly.

[exbutterfly]

Hi,
I faced to the same issue when using remote-ssh extension from Windows 10 to Ubuntu 18.04.
As a workaround, i put "cmake.rollbar-optin3": false in settings.json config file.
It worked for me.
Hope someone thinks is useful.

Regards,

Operating System: Ubuntu 18.04
CMake Version: 3.10.2
VSCode Version: 1.36.0
CMake Tools Extension Version: 1.1.3

[felipegutierrez]

hi, where can I find the settings.json file for Visual Studio Code on Ubuntu?

[bobbrow]

If you run the "Preferences: Open Workspace Settings" command, you can edit the settings. You can also get there by pressing CTL+,

[bobbrow]

This should be fixed in newer versions of CMake Tools. We don't use the rollbar module anymore.