# Broken terminal/language server

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/broken-terminal-language-server/76169>\
**Category:** Tooling\
**Tags:** vscode, potential-bug\
**Created:** [February 10, 2022, 2:52pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/broken-terminal-language-server/76169 "2022-02-10T14:52:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![runical](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/runical/32/32751_2.png) [@runical](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/runical)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2022, 2:52pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/broken-terminal-language-server/76169/1 "2022-02-10T14:52:38Z")

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Good day all,

Today I was greeted with a crashing VScode language server for Julia on my Windows PC, resulting in no code highlighting/help and not being able to run code in the VScode REPL. I can tell you, this is rather annoying to code with.

I get the following error:

> ERROR: LoadError: syntax: invalid character “” near column 1  
> Stacktrace:  
> [1] top-level scope  
> @ c:\Users\user.vscode\extensions\julialang.language-julia-1.5.11\scripts\terminalserver\terminalserver.jl:1  
> in expression starting at c:\Users\user.vscode\extensions\julialang.language-julia-1.5.11\scripts\terminalserver\terminalserver.jl:1

It seems VScode and the Julia extension had an update yesterday, which resulted in this mess. Does anyone know if this is a bug in the VScode extension or if this might have to do with my setup? Where should I start debugging this?

Thank you in advance.

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**Author:** ![pfitzseb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/pfitzseb/32/45566_2.png) [@pfitzseb](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/pfitzseb)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2022, 5:05pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/broken-terminal-language-server/76169/2 "2022-02-10T17:05:53Z")

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Seems likely that the extension got corrupted somehow (during download, installation, or even later). I’d recommend deleting and re-adding it.

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**Author:** ![runical](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/runical/32/32751_2.png) [@runical](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/runical)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2022, 9:00pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/broken-terminal-language-server/76169/3 "2022-02-10T21:00:03Z")

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And that seems to fix it. Thanks!