Starting Intellij through JetBrains Gateway never finishes

[anpieber]

Starting Intellij through JetBrains Gateway never finishes

[anpieber]

Yep - it's installed via toolbox

[pascalbreuninger]

Hi @anpieber, can you paste the debug logs please? (Settings > General > Debug Mode)

[anpieber]

Those are the last lines. It did not really change:

[09:09:25] debug Created logger
[09:09:26] debug Received ping from agent
[09:09:26] debug Start setting up container...
[09:09:26] debug Patch etc environment & profile...
[09:09:26] debug Run post create commands...
[09:09:27] debug Done setting up environment
[09:09:27] debug Setup Intellij...
[09:09:27] debug Goland already installed skip install
[09:09:28] debug Connection to SSH Server closed
[09:09:28] debug Done executing ssh server helper command
[09:09:28] debug Done setting up container
[09:09:29] debug Connection to SSH Server closed
[09:09:29] debug done inject
[09:09:29] debug done injecting
[09:09:29] debug Done InjectAgentAndExecute
[09:09:29] debug Done executing ssh server helper command
[09:09:29] debug Done creating devcontainer
[09:09:29] info Run 'ssh jpatest.devpod' to ssh into the devcontainer
[09:09:29] debug No dotfiles repo specified, skipping
[09:09:29] info Starting Intellij through JetBrains Gateway...
[09:09:29] debug done exec

[pascalbreuninger]

Stupid question but just to be sure: You do have JetBrains Gateway on your local machine, right?

[pascalbreuninger]

Are you able to run the same workspace with the docker provider?

[anpieber]

I dont have docker installed on my local machine, but I can try if you think it will change anything

[pascalbreuninger]

I'm trying to figure out whether the problem is in DevPod, the SSH provider or your machine. The more variables we can eliminate the better

[anpieber]

OK, it must be something connected to the Gateway. Running it in Docker locally I get the same behavior.

[09:21:00] debug Created logger
[09:21:00] debug Received ping from agent
[09:21:00] debug Start setting up container...
[09:21:00] debug Patch etc environment & profile...
[09:21:00] debug Run post create commands...
[09:21:00] debug Done setting up environment
[09:21:00] debug Setup Intellij...
[09:21:01] debug Goland already installed skip install
[09:21:01] debug Connection to SSH Server closed
[09:21:01] debug Done executing ssh server helper command
[09:21:01] debug Done setting up container
[09:21:01] debug Connection to SSH Server closed
[09:21:01] debug Done executing ssh server helper command
[09:21:01] debug Done creating devcontainer
[09:21:01] info Run 'ssh jpatest-docker.devpod' to ssh into the devcontainer
[09:21:01] debug No dotfiles repo specified, skipping
[09:21:01] info Starting Intellij through JetBrains Gateway...

BUT, I can put gateway.cmd in shell and it opens the gateway. So it is there and installed.

[pascalbreuninger]

Mh thanks for trying it with docker @anpieber. Maybe this is a custom protocol issue?
We open the gateway app via the jetbrains-gateway://connect handler. On Linux you'd test this xdg-open jetbrains-gateway://connect, on macos open jetbrains-gateway://connect, not sure how to do this from cmd.exe (the internet says it's fine to omit the (xdg-)open command on windows but hey, who knows).
If a gateway modal opens after this, then it's probably something with your IDE, if not we'd have to take a closer look

[anpieber]

Would it be possible to print the full connect link into the debug log? That would help me a lot to tinker with the parameters, trying to get it to work and in the worst case contacting the JetBrains support.

[89luca89]

@anpieber

Something like this:

jetbrains-gateway://connect#idePath=%2Fhome%2Fvscode%2F.cache%2FJetBrains%2FRemoteDev%2Fdist%2Fintellij&projectPath=%2Fworkspaces%2Ftest123&host=test123.devpod&port=22&user=vscode&type=ssh&deploy=false

Obviously adjust the path and host/port according to your setup 👍

[anpieber]

OK - after building the correct URL and executing it, I saw that nothing happened. After completely uninstalling and reinstalling gateway and toolbox, it started working! Still, for the future - it would help a lot with debugging if the full jetbrains-gateway path would be printed in the debug log. Thank you very much for your support!

[89luca89]

Glad to have helped!