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Ubuntu – Failed to connect to the remote extension host server (Error: Missing proxy instance MainThreadDebugService)

Hey stackoverflow community i have an issue with vscode connecting to wsl2 with the following error [picture bellow] message i already searched for hours and couldnt find a solution.
reinstalled both with a clean updated version without any success

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Edit 1:Tried to unmount and remount folders also tried opening with high privilege’s from cmd ‘wsl code .’ moreover i completely deleted wsl and vscode with all the extensions but still am getting the same error, i was able to reproduce more readable error, when opening a project it prompts with

unable to resolve resource vscode-re…://%ubuntu-22.04/file_path

Edit 2: opening WSL, ‘New WSL window using distro’ works fine but i cant open any directory, without it producing the error in Edit 1

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  1. 0

    I am the same.
    I also reinstalled VSCode and Docker, but nothing changed.

    In the "Remote – Containers" tutorial, I was able to connect without any problems.
    It doesn’t work with my code.

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  2. 0

    I got the same issue. I use Windows and I open the folder in vscode in this way:

    shift+right-click the folder -> open linux shell -> type in "code ."

    when vscode opens, the error does not exist.

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  3. 0

    I got the same.

    If your project is on another drive mount it and
    run vscode as administrator.

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  4. 0

    For me this was due to the secondary sidebar being visible.

    After disabling it via View -> Appearance -> Secondary Side Bar, WSL2 starts up fine again.

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  5. 0

    I had this issue and needed to run..

    $ code
Updating VS Code Server to version  97dec172d3256f8ca4bfb2143f3f76b503ca0534
Removing previous installation...
Installing VS Code Server for x64 (97dec172d3256f8ca4bfb2143f3f76b503ca0534)
Downloading: 100%
Unpacking: 100%
Unpacked 2389 files and folders to /home/dmitri/.vscode-server/bin/97dec172d3256f8ca4bfb2143f3f76b503ca0534.

    in WSL2 to update the WSL2 server. Then uninstalling and reinstalling the WSL extension from VSCode did the trick.

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