Error when building a machine snapshot

Bug Reports
1

When trying to create a snapshot for the background agent I got the following error:

SCR-20250513-otar
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[Status] Creating default environment… (Request ID: ■■■-■■■-■■■)
[Warning] Failed to create default environment: [invalid_argument] Error
[Retry] Retrying in 2 seconds (Attempt 2/3)…
[Status] Creating default environment… (Attempt 2/3) (Request ID: ■■■-■■■-■■■)
[Warning] Failed to create default environment: [invalid_argument] Error
[Retry] Retrying in 2 seconds (Attempt 3/3)…
[Status] Creating default environment… (Attempt 3/3) (Request ID: ■■■-■■■-■■■)
[Error] Failed to create default environment after 3 attempts: [invalid_argument] Error

Environoments

Version: 0.50.202505122344-nightly
VSCode Version: 1.96.2
Commit: b169c040a65ed007edfb431f6f7007fd0cd7b879
Date: 2025-05-13T00:00:32.143Z (14 hrs ago)
Electron: 34.3.4
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.18.3
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 24.5.0

Version: 0.50.3
VSCode Version: 1.96.2
Commit: 7ae22cf8cd5af9e08b62585dd03d10f5f610acf0
Date: 2025-05-13T02:21:11.278Z (12 hrs ago)
Electron: 34.3.4
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.18.3
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 24.5.0

1 Like
2

Same, but unauthenticated error

[Warning] Failed to create default environment: [unauthenticated] Error

3

same

4

I have the same issue? What can be done to fix it?

5

same error here

Version: 0.50.7
VSCode Version: 1.96.2
Commit: 02270c8441bdc4b2fdbc30e6f470a589ec78d600
Date: 2025-05-24T18:19:58.349Z
Electron: 34.3.4
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.18.3
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 24.4.0

6

Disabling privacy mode worked for me.

7

Incredible that multiple users, including me, are having this issue and posting here and there is no answer about it for 20 days.