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Ubuntu – VSCodium Fails to Detect Virtual Environment Interpreter

I activated the virtual environment of my project via the terminal and then opened the project path in VSCodium. However, VSCodium fails to find the interpreter of the virtual environment when I try to choose a kernel. It looks like the directory in the output is somehow wrong.

Error output:

    [warning] Failed to check if /home/user/code_projects/gps_data_2107/venv is an executable [Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, lstat '/home/ben/code_projects/gps_data_2107/venv'] {
      errno: -2,
      code: 'ENOENT',
      syscall: 'lstat',
      path: '/home/user/code_projects/gps_data_2107/venv'
    }

    [warning] Identifier for virt-virtualenv failed to identify /home/ben/code_projects/gps_data_2107/venv [Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, scandir '/home/user/code_projects/gps_data_2107'] {
      errno: -2,
      code: 'ENOENT',
      syscall: 'scandir',
      path: '/home/user/code_projects/gps_data_2107'
    }

Additional Information:

  • VSCodium Version: 1.91.1 (release: 24193)
  • Python Version: 3.12.3
  • Operating System: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

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  1. Activate the virtual environment via the terminal: source /home/user/code_projects/gps_data_2107/venv/bin/activate
  2. Open the project path in VSCodium: cd /home/user/code_projects/gps_data_2107 vscodium .
  3. Try to select the interpreter for the virtual environment.
bn@ros2:~$ cd Code/gps_data_2207/
bn@ros2:~/Code/gps_data_2207$ source venv/bin/activate
(venv) bn@ros2:~/Code/gps_data_2207$ which python
(venv) bn@ros2:~/Code/gps_data_2207$ which python3
/usr/bin/python3

Expected Behavior: VSCodium should correctly detect and use the interpreter from the activated virtual environment.

Actual Behavior: VSCodium fails to detect the virtual environment interpreter and outputs the error messages as shown above.

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  1. Chosen as BEST ANSWER
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    I think I might have solved it. The name of the original project folder (which contains the environment folder) was changed. When I renamed it back to the original name, I got the following terminal output:

    bn@ros2:~$ cd Code/gps_data/
bn@ros2:~/Code/gps_data$ source venv/bin/activate
(venv) bn@ros2:~/Code/gps_data$ which python3
/home/user/Code/gps_data/venv/bin/python3

  2. 0

    try to execute which python once you activate the venv and vscodium, if it’s not detecting the correct one, then you need to activate the venv after the vscodium

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