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Extension failing to activate - Signal Null

Seb HApr 11 2025

Hello,

I'm currently failing to get the SQL Developer Extension for VSCode to activate. At the bottom the message “Activating Oracle SQL Developer Extension for VSCode…” remains indefinitely.

In the logs I see the following:

[4/11/2025, 7:35:50 PM] [DBToolsServerApp] [DEBUG] startServer: DBToolsServerApp

[4/11/2025, 7:35:50 PM] [DBToolsServerApp(22004)] [DEBUG] spawning

[4/11/2025, 7:35:50 PM] [dbtools-client ] [INFO ] Server startup completed

[4/11/2025, 7:35:51 PM] [DBToolsServerApp(22004)] [INFO ] Process terminated with exit code 0 due to receipt of signal null

A cmd.exe is launched and remains open that shows the below:

I've reviewed the other community posts and threads around seeing this issue but I can't seem to find a solution. I'm assuming it is a policy blocking some element, but reviewing our Defender timeline logs for the machine does not show any blocking occurring from that perspective.

On a previous thread I saw an ask for the DBTools info from the full trace log, so have provided that below.

Any help would be appreciated,

Regards

Seb

This post has been answered by Seb H on Apr 15 2025
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