VSCode integrated terminal failed to launch

Question

VSCode integrated terminal failed to launch and the error showed up:

The terminal process failed to launch: Path to shell executable "bash" is not a file of a symlink.

Tried to look for solution in official troubleshoot page but can't really figured the cause of the problem.

Starting an external terminal (gnome-terminal) using Ctrl Alt T is fine.

Also tried to re-install VSCode, removing cache etc. still the same issues. Happens to almost all my Ubuntu computer.

There is a similar fix in Windows https://stackoverflow.com/a/64020049/16346600 , but how to do it in Linux? More particularly I can't find this terminal.integrated.shell.linux .

OS: Ubuntu18.04 LTS

VSCode: Version 1.57.1

Answer 1

It seems like VSCode somehow cannot find the path to executable for default profile "bash".

I fix by providing the exact binary path to bash .

Inside settings.json :

"terminal.integrated.profiles.linux": {
  "bash": {
    "path": "/bin/bash"
  },
  ...
}