After last update, stuck at "Waiting for extension host"

I’m having exactly the same issue. Perhaps related, Cursor also crashed and corrupted my state.vscdb file today in conjunction with this error, which I posted about at:

Cursor hang on reload - corrupted state.vscdb

Version: 2.6.21
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: fea2f546c979a0a4ad1deab23552a43568807590
Date: 2026-03-21T22:09:10.098Z
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Default
Electron: 39.8.1
Chromium: 142.0.7444.265
Node.js: 22.22.1
V8: 14.2.231.22-electron.0
OS: Linux x64 6.8.0-106-generic