Common Error Cases
Some errors that happen in Visual Studio Code can be worked around or resolved by you. This topic describes several of the most common error conditions, and what you can do to resolve them.
If these steps don't help you, you probably hit a bug. You can check our reported issues list to see if others have had the same issue.
20002
Error: Cannot find '/usr/bin/gnome-terminal' for launching your Node.js program
On Linux the VS Code Node.js debugger requires the gnome-terminal for launching the Node.js program. If gnome-terminal is not installed, the VS Code debugger cannot launch your program for debugging.
There are two options for solving this problem:
- Install the gnome-terminal by running the command
sudo apt-get install gnome-terminal
(or the equivalent of your Linux distribution) - Manually launch your program in debug mode by passing a
--inspect
or--inspect-brk
option to Node.js and then attach the VS Code debugger to port 9229 on 'localhost'.
20003
Error: Attribute 'program' is not absolute; consider adding '${workspaceRoot}/' as a prefix to make it absolute.
Before VS Code release 0.10.11, it was possible to use relative paths in launch configurations. VS Code would silently convert them to absolute paths.
There were two problems with this:
- VS Code would only fix paths for some well-known attributes like
program
,cwd
, oroutFiles
. Relative paths passed as an argument or set as an environment variable would not be fixed and this behavior was not transparent. - VS Code would only fix paths in the
launch.json
configuration file. It would not touch paths intasks.json
and this inconsistency was difficult to understand.
Starting with release 0.10.11, VS Code no longer modifies launch configuration paths. If you are using relative paths in your launch configurations, you'll need to fix them by prefixing the relative path with ${workspaceRoot}/
.