VSCode complains that resolving my environment takes too long

Question

When I launch VSCode from the dock, it always complains that

Resolving your shell environment is taking very long. Please
review your shell configuration.

and then a bit later

Unable to resolve your shell environment in a reasonable time.
Please review your shell configuration.

According to this page, Resolving Shell Environment is Slow, the first message is displayed if .bashrc takes more than three seconds and the second is displayed if it takes longer than ten seconds.

I opened a terminal in VSCode and sourced my .bashrc file

dpatterson@dpconsulting$ time source ~/.bashrc
real    0m1.448s
user    0m0.524s
sys     0m0.671s

dpatterson@dpconsulting$ 

As you can see, it takes less than 1.5 seconds.

Environment:

• MacOS Mojave 10.14.6
• VSCode 1.53.0

Hopefully someone knows what is causing this.
Barring that, maybe someone can point me to the code that actually generates these errors.

TIA

Answer 1

encountered the same situation and find the issue: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/113869#issuecomment-780072904

I extract nvm load code to the condition function ref in the issue, solved this problem:

function load-nvm {
  export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.nvm"
  [ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh"  # This loads nvm
  [ -s "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion"  # This loads nvm bash_completion
  [[ -s `brew --prefix`/etc/autojump.sh ]] && . `brew --prefix`/etc/autojump.sh
}

# nvm
if [[ "x${TERM_PROGRAM}" = "xvscode" ]]; then 
  echo 'in vscode, nvm not work; use `load-nvm`';
else 
  load-nvm
fi

Answer 2

Open VS Code from a terminal:

code .