Please Specify a file or folder

[im-coder-lg]

OS/Web Information

• Web Browser: Vivaldi 4.2
• Local OS: Windows 7
• Remote OS: Ubuntu 20.04
• Remote Architecture: AMD?
• code-server --version: 3.12.0

Steps to Reproduce

1. Get 3.12.0
2. Run
3. See error

Expected

Expected code-server to start

Actual

I see this error(mentioned on Slack too):
Please specify a file or folder.

Logs

• Need to do this(see below)
  Error log:

gitpod /workspace/coder-lg-blog-codedoc $ code-server --log debug
[2021-09-22T04:28:21.583Z] error Please specify at least one file or folder

Running on Gitpod via the cURL link on my blog repo(needed a base for it, got a base or it)

Installation log:

gitpod /workspace/coder-lg-blog-codedoc $ curl -fsSL https://code-server.dev/install.sh | bash
Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS
Installing v3.12.0 of the amd64 deb package from GitHub.

+ Reusing ~/.cache/code-server/code-server_3.12.0_amd64.deb
+ sudo dpkg -i ~/.cache/code-server/code-server_3.12.0_amd64.deb
(Reading database ... 65739 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../code-server_3.12.0_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking code-server (3.12.0) over (3.12.0) ...
Setting up code-server (3.12.0) ...

deb package has been installed.

To have systemd start code-server now and restart on boot:
  sudo systemctl enable --now code-server@$USER
Or, if you don't want/need a background service you can run:
  code-server

Using the cURL link.

Extra info:
The entire console log:

gitpod /workspace/coder-lg-blog-codedoc $ curl -fsSL https://code-server.dev/install.sh | bash
Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS
Installing v3.12.0 of the amd64 deb package from GitHub.

+ mkdir -p ~/.cache/code-server
+ curl -#fL -o ~/.cache/code-server/code-server_3.12.0_amd64.deb.incomplete -C - https://github.com/cdr/code-server/releases/download/v3.12.0/code-server_3.12.0_amd64.deb
######################################################################## 100.0%
+ mv ~/.cache/code-server/code-server_3.12.0_amd64.deb.incomplete ~/.cache/code-server/code-server_3.12.0_amd64.deb
+ sudo dpkg -i ~/.cache/code-server/code-server_3.12.0_amd64.deb
Selecting previously unselected package code-server.
(Reading database ... 56822 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../code-server_3.12.0_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking code-server (3.12.0) ...
Setting up code-server (3.12.0) ...

deb package has been installed.

To have systemd start code-server now and restart on boot:
  sudo systemctl enable --now code-server@$USER
Or, if you don't want/need a background service you can run:
  code-server
gitpod /workspace/coder-lg-blog-codedoc $ code-server
[2021-09-22T04:26:21.335Z] info  Wrote default config file to ~/.config/code-server/config.yaml
[2021-09-22T04:26:21.345Z] error Please specify at least one file or folder
gitpod /workspace/coder-lg-blog-codedoc $ cat ~/.config/code-server/config.yaml
bind-addr: 127.0.0.1:8080
auth: password
password: cb9bb7d9b0d41b78a9e0936a
cert: false
gitpod /workspace/coder-lg-blog-codedoc $ code-server --log
[2021-09-22T04:28:07.428Z] error --log requires a value
gitpod /workspace/coder-lg-blog-codedoc $ code-server --log verbose
[2021-09-22T04:28:14.379Z] error --log valid values: [trace, debug, info, warn, error]
gitpod /workspace/coder-lg-blog-codedoc $ code-server --log debug
[2021-09-22T04:28:21.583Z] error Please specify at least one file or folder
gitpod /workspace/coder-lg-blog-codedoc $ curl -fsSL https://code-server.dev/install.sh | bash
Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS
Installing v3.12.0 of the amd64 deb package from GitHub.

+ Reusing ~/.cache/code-server/code-server_3.12.0_amd64.deb
+ sudo dpkg -i ~/.cache/code-server/code-server_3.12.0_amd64.deb
(Reading database ... 65739 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../code-server_3.12.0_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking code-server (3.12.0) over (3.12.0) ...
Setting up code-server (3.12.0) ...

deb package has been installed.

To have systemd start code-server now and restart on boot:
  sudo systemctl enable --now code-server@$USER
Or, if you don't want/need a background service you can run:
  code-server
gitpod /workspace/coder-lg-blog-codedoc $ 

Sorry for that but I think it might help

Screenshot

• Need to do this too
  Fresh video recording:

2021-09-22.10-05-28.mp4

I am sorry if it seems a little bit snappy, OBS said that my encoding was overloaded while recording.

Notes

This issue can be reproduced in VS Code: idk

I use this on Gitpod since I use code-server rarely, if this is fixed, I can use code-server for my Pi.
Moreover, I don't wanna break my PC by installing code-server immediately and breaking it so I test it for bugs and then install it.

[im-coder-lg]

Slack link: https://coder-com.slack.com/archives/C01B9QE823V/p1631306441013600

[jsjoeio]

Thanks @im-coder-lg for reporting this! How do you run code-server? i.e. do you use any flags?

I've seen that error before but can't reproduce locally on macOS.

[im-coder-lg]

Well, I run it rarely, but since I now have an independent Linux machine, I want to run code-server on that. But, I wanted to test for bugs, So I popped up a Gitpod workspace running the latest Ubuntu LTS, and ran the cURL link on the Readme. But it didn't help since I ended up in that error.

[jsjoeio]

Ahh gotcha! Okay well, once we figure out how to reproduce this, we'll be able to help.

(excited you have an independent Linux machine though, that's awesome!)

[im-coder-lg]

Well, I'll be quick, I gotta doze off 💤, but I wasn't posting the logs and the screenshots on code-server since Gitpod didn't sanction me a container(happened on Saturday aka. your Friday) but I will try posting after I wake up.

[im-coder-lg]

Thanks @im-coder-lg for reporting this! How do you run code-server? i.e. do you use any flags?

I tried using the link tag but it showed the error. Classic code-server also does show errors.

I've seen that error before but can't reproduce locally on macOS.

Well, you don't need to reproduce on MacOS. You can use Gitpod itself, since they offer free containerized OSes, like Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. If you want, just find a repository as the base for Gitpod since it needs a Git repo. Then, copy the URL and add this:
https://gitpod.io/#/{your-url}(replace {your-url} with your URL.)

Are you running 3.12.0?

[im-coder-lg]

@jsjoeio error still persists, check the updated description of this issue.

[im-coder-lg]

As you can see in the recording here, you can see that I use Vivaldi. There are no issues with Gitpod, I am using the VNC edition of the gitpod/workspace-full Docker image(I configured it) and whenever I run code-server, I get the error. No use on the NPM version, there is an error that you also know. But I must try the Yarn installation

[im-coder-lg]

Update: No use of Yarn installation, it doesn't recognise code-server(bash doesn't)

[jsjoeio]

Are you running 3.12.0?

Yup! Just upgraded

There are no issues with Gitpod, I am using the VNC edition of the gitpod/workspace-full Docker image(I configured it) and whenever I run code-server, I get the error

The video was super helpful! So you're running code-server inside Gitpod? That's very interesting. I totally see the error and I'm not sure what it could be 🤔 cc @code-asher any ideas?

[code-asher]

Ah, this is probably because code-server detects it is running inside VS Code and instead of spawning normally it tries to open a file inside the running VS Code. As a result it asks for the file to open. It should be possible to bypass this behavior by explicitly telling code-server to bind to something with `--bind-address`.

[im-coder-lg]

I will try the --bind-address tag soon.

[im-coder-lg]

Oh yeah @code-asher this never happened before, code-server worked perfectly. I think this is due to something in 3.12.0

[im-coder-lg]

What I am trying to mean is that I have installed code-server on Gitpod a lot of times and I never saw this. But on 3.12.0, I noticed this error.