PlatformIO Installer is running indefinitevly after install of a new OS partition

Hello,

I was forced to install a new OS (Linux Mint v22.1) over my previous version (LM v21.3).
My HOME directory (with all my pio projects) is located on a different partition and was preserved during the new install of the ROOT partition.
After the install and restart of VSCode I’m receiving a message window saying

This is now running for about 30 minutes w/o any progress.
What can I do to resolve the problem?
Any help is much appreciated.
TIA

Does anyone has any suggestion to my problem?

If you haven’t made any custom modifications to your ~/.platformio folder (and know if you need to have any special / older versions of platforms), I’d suggest the easiest way is to rm -rf ~/.platformio and cleanly reinstall the core.

This behaviour is often when Python is not found. Probably the reinstall installed a newer version which has a different path. Before deleting the whole folder you can try to delete the pyenv folder in folder .platformio/packages