Ballerina VSCode plugin not working on Linux but on Windows when using SSH

Question

I have a weird problem with the Ballerina VSCode plugin:

It doesn't work on my laptop running Manjaro and Ballerina 2201.8.0, it always shows the error bal command _stderr: /bin/sh: line1: bal: command not found. However, in zsh (no matter if using Gnome Terminal or the integrated VSCode terminal, the bal command works perfectly fine.

What's even weirder is that the Ballerina plugin works perfectly fine when I SSH into my laptop using VSCode on Windows 10.

The ballerina installation directory is /home/matthes/.ballerina-swan-lake.

$ bal home   
/home/matthes/.ballerina-swan-lake/distributions/ballerina-2201.8.0
$ which bal
/home/matthes/.ballerina-swan-lake/bin/bal
$ echo $BALLERINA_HOME
/home/matthes/.ballerina-swan-lake/distributions/ballerina-2201.8.0

I installed it via zip as described here

I tried setting the Ballerina Home settings in VSCode to each of the three paths above but that didn't help either.

Thanks for any help!

Answer 1

It appears that the Ballerina VS Code plugin is having trouble finding the Ballerina home directory path. You can try following these steps,

1. Ensure that the Ballerina Home directory path is set correctly in your user settings of the Ballerina VS Code plugin. The path should be as follows,

   Home: /home/matthes/.ballerina-swan-lake/distributions/ballerina-2201.8.0

2. Check whether you've enabled Plugin-dev-mode in the user settings