How do i resolve "Failed to parse remote port from server"

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Sean Zamora picture Sean Zamora · May 4, 2019 · Viewed 7.9k times · Source

I'm setting up a new remote host and every time i initiate it i get the following error output: Any feedback or direction on how to resolve this issue?

Pseudo-terminal will not be allocated because stdin is not a terminal.

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mesg: ttyname failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device

bash: cannot set terminal process group (3202): Inappropriate ioctl for device bash: no job control in this shell

mesg: ttyname failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device

Installing... Downloading with wget

WARNING: tar exited with non-0 exit code

Found running server...

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cat: /root/.vscode-remote/.473af338e1bd9ad4d9853933da1cd9d5d9e07dc9.log: No such file or directory

Server did not start successfully. Full server log: cat: /root/.vscode-remote/.X.log51ec4692- 4da4-4ec0-b613-5a3563034cf1==== : No such file or directory

"install" terminal command done Received install output: : No such file or directory Failed to parse remote port from server output: : No such file or directory

Answer

Sean Zamora picture Sean Zamora · May 5, 2019

Fixed the issue. It appears I had 2 other server agents running incorrectly. I killed both server agents using kill (PID) and removed ".vscode_remote" directory from user home directory. Then i reinitialized remote-ssh from vscode. Successfully connected!

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