Vscode: [Snap] Opening external links does not work, results in high cpu utilization

Created on 12 Oct 2019 · 5Comments · Source: microsoft/vscode

Trying to open external links does not launch the web browser, instead it seems that an infinite number of kde-open5 instances are being spawned and killed which results in very high CPU utilization.

This issue affects versions 1.39.1 and 1.40 Insiders installed from snap store. The .tar.gz version works fine.

OS Info:

Kernel: 5.3.5-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.16.5 Distro: Manjaro Linux

Affected Code versions:

$snap list
Name           Version   Rev   Tracking  Publisher   Notes
code           88f15d17  17    stable    vscode✓     classic
code-insiders  72bc289d  273   stable    vscode✓     classic
core           16-2.42   7917  stable    canonical✓  core


Version: 1.40.0-insider
Commit: 72bc289d32ec4f867e73b7f1f2a22f7d614ae2bb
Date: 2019-10-11T05:31:05.355Z
Electron: 6.0.12
Chrome: 76.0.3809.146
Node.js: 12.4.0
V8: 7.6.303.31-electron.0
OS: Linux x64 5.3.5-1-MANJARO snap

Version: 1.39.1
Commit: 88f15d17dca836346e787762685a40bb5cce75a8
Date: 2019-10-10T23:30:33.955Z
Electron: 4.2.10
Chrome: 69.0.3497.128
Node.js: 10.11.0
V8: 6.9.427.31-electron.0
OS: Linux x64 5.3.5-1-MANJARO snap

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muhammetsait

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I don't use VS Code, but for me Slack acts the same. Created bug report here.

alok1111 on 15 Oct 2019

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Might be related to Manjaro...

I'm using the snap package on Ubuntu and this just works.

Can you check what process is causing the high CPU?

joaomoreno on 14 Oct 2019

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Yeah could be related to the distro or Desktop Environment... it seems that after clicking a link (multiple times) several instances of kde-open5 processes are running and the cpu is utilized to 100%.

Trying to kill those doesn't work; most of them can be killed but then there are a few that keep "changing" their ID, which I believe means they are dying and new ones are re-spawned indefinitely. I have to restart the machine to get of them all.

I am not sure how can I collect more info to track what's going on exactly.. if there's anything I can do I'd be happy to help.

muhammetsait on 14 Oct 2019

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Do other snap packages open URLs without issues?

joaomoreno on 15 Oct 2019

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I don't use VS Code, but for me Slack acts the same. Created bug report here.

alok1111 on 15 Oct 2019

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Oh I didn't test that ! I didn't have any other snaps :confused: Anyway, turns out that other packages also had the same problem.

After some digging I managed to solve it: I needed to install xdg-desktop-portal and xdg-desktop-portal-kde packages. Now it works fine.

muhammetsait on 15 Oct 2019