Julia Language Server failed to precompile

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Hello,

I’ve tried to install Julia 1.9.3 on my Mac OS Mojave 10.14.6 (previously using Julia 1.8.5 that perfectly worked).
I use VScode as editor, but now with Julia 1.9.3, VScode Julia language server fails precompiling and crash with error messages like :

The Language Server failed to precompile.
Please make sure you have permissions to write to the LS depot path at
/Users/baisset/Library/Application Support/Code/User/globalStorage/julialang.language-julia/lsdepot/v1

┌ Error: Some Julia code in the VS Code extension crashed
└ @ Main ~/.vscode/extensions/julialang.language-julia-1.50.1/scripts/error_handler.jl:15
ERROR: Failed to precompile LanguageServer [2b0e0bc5-e4fd-59b4-8912-456d1b03d8d7] to “/Users/baisset/Library/Application Support/Code/User/globalStorage/julialang.language-julia/lsdepot/v1/compiled/v1.9/LanguageServer/jl_yvyGKP”.

Does anyone have an idea of how to solve the problem, as I have to use Julia 1.9 in order to run codes that require last version of Makie (which requires Julia 1.9) ?

Thank you,
Marie

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This problems looks similar to what is described here.
It seems that there is a conflict between Julia v1.9 and VScode language server on older macs. I would not know a solution though…

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Yes you’re right the problem looks similar to that one but no solutions have been found for it…
I tried to uninstall VSCode (in a very clean way, deleting “Code” and “~/.vscode” hidden folders in my computer) and install it again but the problem persists.
It is strange because I now have installed the latest version of VSCode (1.81.1) with the latest version of Julia (1.9.3), so I do not understand why it is not working only because my Mac is old (2019 ! Obsolescence is a fast process…)

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Sorry to hear you that it still doesn’t work. You could try reaching the language server developers via github.

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You are right. I’m gonna do that, thanks.

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In my case the problem disappeared after an OS update, see there - maybe this could also help you?