Amazon Q Causes Visual Studio Code to Crash When Joining Microsoft Live Share on macOS

[scanianick]

Problem

When joining a Microsoft Live Share session, Visual Studio Code crashes if Amazon Q is enabled. The current workaround is to disable Amazon Q.

I have confirmed this issue with a colleague running the same versions of VS Code, Live Share, and Amazon Q, but it works fine for another colleague using macOS Darwin arm64 24.1.0 with identical software versions. Based on my experience, this issue has persisted across multiple macOS and Amazon Q versions.

Steps to reproduce the issue

Expected behavior

System details (run AWS: About and/or Amazon Q: About)

OS: Darwin arm64 24.2.0
Visual Studio Code extension host: 1.96.4
AWS Toolkit: 3.44.0
node: 20.18.1
electron: 32.2.6

OS: Darwin arm64 24.2.0
Visual Studio Code extension host: 1.96.4
Amazon Q: 1.45.0
node: 20.18.1
electron: 32.2.6

Microsoft Live Share version (ms-vsliveshare.vsliveshare):
1.0.5948

[jpinkney-aws]

Hi, are there any VSCode relevant logs that you can share with us to help diagnose the issue? Is the problem that the extension host is crashing? Or Live Share won't work at all?

[scanianick]

So basically, it works for a short time but usually crashes within a minute, displaying this popup.

Since the window crash it is hard to get the logs within Visual Studio Code for Amazon Q extension. But I check the main log.

tail -f main.log
2025-02-03 15:34:01.132 [info] Extension host with pid 53690 exited with code: 0, signal: unknown.
2025-02-03 15:35:39.164 [info] Extension host with pid 38709 exited with code: 0, signal: unknown.
2025-02-03 15:36:31.873 [error] CodeWindow: renderer process gone (reason: crashed, code: 5)
2025-02-03 15:36:32.159 [info] Extension host with pid 57434 exited with code: 0, signal: unknown.
2025-02-03 15:36:47.576 [info] Extension host with pid 38710 exited with code: 0, signal: unknown.
2025-02-03 15:37:18.125 [info] Extension host with pid 59612 exited with code: 0, signal: unknown.
2025-02-03 15:37:27.111 [info] Extension host with pid 61796 exited with code: 0, signal: unknown.
2025-02-03 15:37:34.992 [info] Extension host with pid 62035 exited with code: 0, signal: unknown.
2025-02-03 15:38:08.846 [error] CodeWindow: renderer process gone (reason: crashed, code: 5)
2025-02-03 15:38:09.135 [info] Extension host with pid 62226 exited with code: 0, signal: unknown.

[scanianick]

Let me know if you have any other relevant log to look for.

[justinmk3]

As a workaround, try disabling Q workspace indexing. Setting id: amazonQ.workspaceIndex. Restart vscode after changing the setting.