[Dev Containers] try a example button at left dev container pannel open the example in local instead of remote when in remote window

[NewUserHa]

• VSCode Version: 1.95.3
• Local OS Version: win10 1803
• Remote OS Version: debian 12.8
• Remote Extension/Connection Type: Dev Containers
• Logs:

[4113 ms] Dev Containers 0.394.0 over Remote - SSH 0.115.1 in VS Code 1.95.3 (f1a4fb101478ce6ec82fe9627c43efbf9e98c813).
[4112 ms] Start: Resolving Remote
[4121 ms] Start: Loading environment from ExecServer
[4309 ms] Host OS: linux 6.1.0-28-cloud-amd64
[4310 ms] Host CWD: undefined
[4310 ms] Start: Run: /bin/sh 
[4683 ms] Start: Run in host: echo ~
[4869 ms] /root
[4869 ms] 
[4870 ms] Start: Run in host: id -un
[5057 ms] root
[5058 ms] 
[5058 ms] Start: Run in host:  (command -v getent >/dev/null 2>&1 && getent passwd 'root' || grep -E '^root|^[^:]*:[^:]*:root:' /etc/passwd || true)
[5246 ms] userEnvProbe: loginInteractiveShell (default)
[5246 ms] userEnvProbe: not found in cache
[5247 ms] userEnvProbe shell: /usr/bin/fish
[5681 ms] userEnvProbe PATHs:
Probe:     '/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin'
Container: None
[6057 ms] Start: Run: wsl -l -v
[6109 ms] Could not connect to WSL.
[6109 ms] Exectuable 'wsl' not found on PATH 'c:\windows;c:\windows\system32;c:\windows\system32\wbem;c:\windows\system32\windowspowershell\v1.0\;c:\windows\system32\openssh\; ~~~'.
[6499 ms] Start: Check Docker is running
[6500 ms] Start: Run: docker version
[6897 ms] Client: Docker Engine - Community
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[6935 ms] Start: Run: docker volume ls -q
[10365 ms] Start: Run: docker build -f /tmp/vsch-root/bootstrap-image/0.394.0/bootstrap.Dockerfile -t vsc-volume-bootstrap /tmp/vsch-root/bootstrap-image/0.394.0
#0 building with "default" instance using docker driver

#1 [internal] load build definition from bootstrap.Dockerfile
#1 transferring dockerfile: 1.02kB done
#1 DONE 0.0s

#2 [internal] load metadata for mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/base:0-alpine-3.20
#2 DONE 0.1s

#3 [internal] load .dockerignore
#3 transferring context: 2B done
#3 DONE 0.0s

#4 [1/8] FROM mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/base:0-alpine-3.20@sha256:5212d8ed44c89bfadad14a03104ef75b09c5de8642a58721c271f2e9155f5023
#4 DONE 0.0s

#5 [internal] load build context
#5 transferring context: 214.63kB done
#5 DONE 0.0s

#6 [3/8] RUN cat /tmp/host-ca-certificates.crt >> /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
#6 CACHED

#7 [4/8] RUN csplit -f /usr/local/share/ca-certificates/host-ca-certificate- -b '%02d.pem' -z -s /tmp/host-ca-certificates.crt '/-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----/' '{*}'
#7 CACHED

#8 [2/8] COPY host-ca-certificates.crt /tmp/host-ca-certificates.crt
#8 CACHED

#9 [5/8] RUN echo "@old https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.15/main" >> /etc/apk/repositories
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#10 [7/8] RUN npm config set cafile /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt && cd && npm i node-pty || echo "Continuing without node-pty."
#10 CACHED

#11 [6/8] RUN apk add --no-cache        git-lfs         nodejs  python3       npm     make    g++     docker-cli      docker-cli-buildx    docker-cli-compose       openssh-client-default@old      ;
#11 CACHED

#12 [8/8] COPY .vscode-remote-containers /root/.vscode-remote-containers
#12 CACHED

#13 exporting to image
#13 exporting layers done
#13 writing image sha256:42e9e7e90cab2554d8737f3dbfa79dfa78e9ca41dd9773ef3730d7015f5974aa done
#13 naming to docker.io/library/vsc-volume-bootstrap done
#13 DONE 0.0s
[11092 ms] Cloning Github repository: Microsoft/vscode-remote-try-python into /workspaces/vscode-remote-try-python

[11093 ms] Start: Run: docker run -d --mount type=volume,src=vscode-remote-try-python-57162747f0204512b2a2119607d864e61e3cfb714da0e7ce0cf5751654850e99,dst=/workspaces -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock vsc-volume-bootstrap sleep infinity
[11735 ms] Start: Run in container: /bin/sh
[12109 ms] Start: Launching Dev Containers helper.
[12152 ms] ssh-agent: SSH_AUTH_SOCK not set on remote host.
[12152 ms] ssh-agent: SSH_AUTH_SOCK not set on local host.
[12154 ms] X11 forwarding: DISPLAY not set on remote host.
[12155 ms] X11 forwarding: DISPLAY not set on local host.
[12156 ms] Start: Run in container: gpgconf --list-dirs
[12350 ms] sysconfdir:/etc/gnupg
bindir:/usr/bin
libexecdir:/usr/libexec
libdir:/usr/lib/gnupg
datadir:/usr/share/gnupg
localedir:/usr/share/locale
socketdir:/root/.gnupg
dirmngr-socket:/root/.gnupg/S.dirmngr
keyboxd-socket:/root/.gnupg/S.keyboxd
agent-ssh-socket:/root/.gnupg/S.gpg-agent.ssh
agent-extra-socket:/root/.gnupg/S.gpg-agent.extra
agent-browser-socket:/root/.gnupg/S.gpg-agent.browser
agent-socket:/root/.gnupg/S.gpg-agent
homedir:/root/.gnupg
[12351 ms] 
[12352 ms] Start: Run in container: ls '/root/.gnupg/private-keys-v1.d' 2>/dev/null
[12543 ms] 
[12544 ms] 
[12544 ms] Exit code 2
[12545 ms] Start: Run in container: grep -e '^s*use-keyboxds*$' '/root/.gnupg/common.conf' 2>/dev/null
[12733 ms] 
[12734 ms] 
[12734 ms] Exit code 2
[12736 ms] Start: Run: gpgconf --list-dirs
[13109 ms] CodeError(ProcessSpawnFailed(Os { code: 2, kind: NotFound, message: "No such file or directory" }))
[13109 ms] gpg-agent: No agent-extra-socket found on remote host.
[13109 ms] Start: Run: gpgconf --list-dirs
[13162 ms] sysconfdir:C%3a\ProgramData\GNU\etc\gnupg
bindir:c%3a\program files (x86)\gnupg\bin
libexecdir:c%3a\program files (x86)\gnupg\bin
libdir:c%3a\program files (x86)\gnupg\lib\gnupg
datadir:c%3a\program files (x86)\gnupg\share\gnupg
localedir:c%3a\program files (x86)\gnupg\share\locale
socketdir:C%3a\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\gnupg
dirmngr-socket:C%3a\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\gnupg\S.dirmngr
agent-ssh-socket:C%3a\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\gnupg\S.gpg-agent.ssh
agent-extra-socket:C%3a\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\gnupg\S.gpg-agent.extra
agent-browser-socket:C%3a\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\gnupg\S.gpg-agent.browser
agent-socket:C%3a\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\gnupg\S.gpg-agent
homedir:C%3a\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\gnupg
[13162 ms] 
[13163 ms] Start: Run in container: test -f '/root/.gnupg/pubring.kbx'
[13350 ms] 
[13350 ms] 
[13351 ms] Exit code 1
[13351 ms] Start: Run in container: test -f '/root/.gnupg/pubring.gpg'
[13539 ms] 
[13540 ms] 
[13540 ms] Exit code 1
[13541 ms] Start: Run in container: test -f '/root/.gnupg/trustdb.gpg'
[13728 ms] 
[13728 ms] 
[13728 ms] Exit code 1
[13729 ms] Start: Run in container: mkdir -p -m 700 '/root/.gnupg'
[13730 ms] gpg-agent: Socket in container (/root/.gnupg/S.gpg-agent) forwarded to local host (C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\gnupg\S.gpg-agent.extra).
[13917 ms] 
[13917 ms] 
[13917 ms] Start: Run in container: (command -v 'docker' || command -v 'oras' || command -v 'skopeo') >/dev/null 2>&1
[14104 ms] 
[14104 ms] 
[14104 ms] Start: Run in container: # Test for /root/.gnupg/pubring.kbx and gpg
[14105 ms] Start: Run in container: /bin/sh
[14293 ms] 
[14293 ms] 
[14294 ms] Start: Run in container: # Copy C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\gnupg\pubring.kbx to /root/.gnupg/pubring.kbx
[14477 ms] Start: Run in container: echo ~
[14664 ms] /root
[14664 ms] 
[14665 ms] Start: Run in container: cat <<'EOF-/tmp/vscode-remote-containers-af86f090-29d4-43a5-8905-8dbdf8318438.js' >/tmp/vscode-remote-containers-af86f090-29d4-43a5-8905-8dbdf8318438.js
[14714 ms] 
[14715 ms] 
[14716 ms] Start: Run in container: # Test for /root/.gnupg/trustdb.gpg and gpg
[14853 ms] 
[14854 ms] 
[14905 ms] 
[14905 ms] 
[14906 ms] Start: Run in container: # Copy C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\gnupg\trustdb.gpg to /root/.gnupg/trustdb.gpg
[15277 ms] 
[15277 ms] 
[15278 ms] Start: Run: gpg-connect-agent updatestartuptty /bye
[15877 ms] Start: Run in container: cat <<'EOF-/tmp/vscode-remote-containers-server-af86f090-29d4-43a5-8905-8dbdf8318438.js' >/tmp/vscode-remote-containers-server-af86f090-29d4-43a5-8905-8dbdf8318438.js_1736461096128
[16070 ms] 
[16070 ms] 
[16447 ms] Start: Run in container: # Test for /root/.gitconfig and git
[16634 ms] 
[16634 ms] 
[16634 ms] Start: Run in container: # Copy C:\Users\user\.gitconfig to /root/.gitconfig
[17007 ms] 
[17008 ms] 
[17197 ms] Start: Run in container: # Cleaning up git config
[17389 ms] 
[17389 ms] 
[17390 ms] Start: Run: git config --global --get gpg.ssh.allowedSignersFile
[17391 ms] Start: Run in container: command -v git >/dev/null 2>&1 && git config --global --replace-all credential.helper '!f() { node /tmp/vscode-remote-containers-af86f090-29d4-43a5-8905-8dbdf8318438.js git-credential-helper $*; }; f' || true
[17580 ms] 
[17581 ms] 
[17770 ms] Start: Run in container: # Test for /root/.ssh/known_hosts and ssh
[17959 ms] 
[17959 ms] 
[17959 ms] Start: Run in container: # Copy C:\Users\user\.ssh\known_hosts to /root/.ssh/known_hosts
[18333 ms] 
[18334 ms] 
[19109 ms] Start: Run in container: git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-remote-try-python .
Cloning into '.'...
fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-remote-try-python/': Failed to connect to 127.0.0.1 port 8000 after 0 ms: Could not connect to server
[19568 ms] Start: Run: docker rm -f 236da2c45a5ba493bf15aec08bcb3a97f45fd831335d3d194af843097945aecc
[19981 ms] Container server terminated (code: 137, signal: null).
[19981 ms] Container server terminated. Reconnecting in 5 seconds...
[24982 ms] Start: Container: Reconnecting Dev Container server
[24982 ms] Start: Run in container: /bin/sh
[25366 ms] Container server: Error response from daemon: No such container: 236da2c45a5ba493bf15aec08bcb3a97f45fd831335d3d194af843097945aecc
[25368 ms] Container server terminated (code: 1, signal: null).
[25368 ms] Container server terminated early. Not reconnecting.
[25368 ms] Reconnecting Dev Container server failed: Container server terminated (code: 1, signal: null).

Steps to Reproduce:

1. connect to the remote host via remote-ssh
2. click the remote explore on the left pannel, switch to dev container, click try a example, then select any

the issue seems to just be that the dev-container incorrectly used the local env to git clone

old issue: #10352

[chrmarti]

The log looks like everything is done remotely. The following looks interesting:

[19109 ms] Start: Run in container: git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-remote-try-python .
Cloning into '.'...
fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-remote-try-python/': Failed to connect to 127.0.0.1 port 8000 after 0 ms: Could not connect to server

Why would it connect to 127.0.0.1:8000? Do you have a network proxy configured?

[NewUserHa]

the remote is a *nix server, [6109 ms] [13162 ms] [14294 ms] [17959 ms] are local envs,
the local&remote vscode themselvies don't have proxy configured, the 127.0.0.1:8000 is from .gitconfig locally

[chrmarti]

The log lines you refer to are from the Dev Containers extension using local configuration to set up the remote container.

Could you share your local .gitconfig?

[NewUserHa]

~/.gitconfig:
[http]
	proxy = socks5h://127.0.0.1:8000
[https]
	proxy = socks5h://127.0.0.1:8000
[filter "lfs"]
	clean = git-lfs clean -- %f
	smudge = git-lfs smudge -- %f
	process = git-lfs filter-process
	required = true

[NewUserHa]

the remote has nothing proxy configured

[chrmarti]

You could try with removing the proxy from the .gitconfig or disable copying it over in the user settings:

(You will need to rebuild the container to make these changes effective.)

[NewUserHa]

after checking, the ~/.gitconfig caused the issue

[NewUserHa]

also, then the issue occurred, the left-bottom corner also only showed "dev container ..." which seems like it is indicating running locally.

it should display "dev container ... @ remote" to keep the same as it successfully connected to the remote and is operating on the remote.

[chrmarti]

It should show an @ like:

[NewUserHa]

It should show an @ like:
Image

if it ran successfully, that is what it showed.
But if it failed like in this issue, it will just show "dev container ..." only.