PlatformIO Scripts not starting

PlatformIO IDE
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Hello,
I have a really strange behavior in PlatformIO (ESP devs). It is really great and I used it already for a long time without any issues. But from one day to another the scripts (build, upload etc.) are no more opening a new terminal and therefore do not start. This happens in all my arduino/esp projects!
I deinstalled the extension already and deleted the \user.platformio folder and reinstalled it again.
I also checked with the previous 2.x version and I also did not change any settings.
If I open PlatformIO Core CLI and start a script manually by typing everthing works.
Dev Console does not show anything.
Does anybody have an idea what is going wrong?
Thanks in advance!
Roger

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Do you use the latest VSCode and PlatformIO IDE for VSCode versions?

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Yes! As mentioned above I even de- and re-installed the AddOn and I also checked an older AddOn version.

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Wanted to chime in that this happened to me today as well - I used PIO last a few weeks ago to compile Marlin for my printer, and it worked fine then…now, same behavior: clicking any action under “Project Tasks” doesn’t open a new terminal or output anything I can see. Also uninstalled and reinstalled the extension.

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What is your VSCode and PlatfomIO IDE extension versions?

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VSCode:

Version: 1.76.1
Commit: 5e805b79fcb6ba4c2d23712967df89a089da575b
Date: 2023-03-08T16:32:09.831Z
Electron: 19.1.11
Chromium: 102.0.5005.196
Node.js: 16.14.2
V8: 10.2.154.26-electron.0
OS: Darwin x64 22.3.0
Sandboxed: Yes

PIO Extension: 3.0.0

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Since yesterday the issue vanished.
There was an PIO update to 3.1.0

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upgraded to 3.1.0 but still clicking any of the tasks in any environment appears to do nothing, no new window, no activity.

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Could you try to download this AVR project example? Does it work for you?

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Downloaded and opened the resulting folder in VSCode. All the tasks and environments showed up but none of the actions appeared to do anything.

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Please uninstall/disable ALL VSCode’s extensions and keep only 2: C/C++ by Microsoft + PlatformIO. Restart VSCode.

Does it work now?

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It does work now. I’ll go about turning extensions back on and see at what point it stops working (if at all).

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I took the opportunity to clean out a bunch of extensions I wasn’t using, and the various actions still seem to work. I’ll check on my other system and see if everything transferred over (I have settings and plugins synced).

Edit: it did, everything is working on the other build system as well.