PowerShell Extension Terminal does not return commands back to display

[baywack]

Prerequisites

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Summary

Unable to determine the root cause. However it happens numerous times daily. PowerShell terminal will not return value back to display. Restarting VSCode fixes the issue until the issue appears again.

When the issue happens here is what is noted (any command in terminal does this).

Example
C:\users...\scripts> $PSVersionTable
returns nothing back to display

Example
C:\users...\scripts> $PSVersionTable | write-host
System.Collections.Hashtable
Write-host returns data back to terminal display - in this example "System.Collections.Hashtable"

PowerShell Version

Only way I was able to run this command was using out-gridview

PSVersion - 5.1.19041.1682
PSEdition - Desktop
PSCompatibleVersions - {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0...}
BuildVersion - 10.0.19041.1682
CLRVersion - 4.0.30319.42000
WSManStackVersion - 3.0
PSRemotingProtocolVersion - 2.3
SerializationVersion - 1.1.0.1

Visual Studio Code Version

1.71.2
74b1f979648cc44d385a2286793c226e611f59e7
x64

Extension Version

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Steps to Reproduce

Unable to determine the root cause. However it happens numerous times daily. PowerShell terminal will not return value back to display. Restarting VSCode fixes the issue until the issue appears again.

Visuals

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[andyleejordan]

@SeeminglyScience this looks like #3991

[andyleejordan]

@baywack can you use PowerShell 7? If this is the same as the issue I just linked, it's only affecting PowerShell 5.1.

[baywack]

@andschwa I can confirm PSVersion 7.2.6 doesn't seem to have the same issue so far today. I can confirm that running as admin or regular user - same results as #3991. Assuming it's the same bug looking through the notes.

[andyleejordan]

Thanks for the confirmation @baywack, I'm going to mark this as a duplicate. Appreciate it!

[ghost]

This issue has been marked as duplicate and has not had any activity in a day. It has been closed for housekeeping purposes.