Connection to the terminal's pty host process is unresponsive

Question

After installing VSCode, I started receiving this certain notification saying

The connection to the terminal's pty host process is unresponsive, the terminals may stop working.

The notification won't disappear until I click the restart button. But despite clicking this, no changes occurs and the notification pops up again after few seconds.

This problem caused my terminal to stop working and running node applications impossible.

Answer 1

This is how I solved the issue:

• Press Ctrl + Shift + P (or Cmd + Shift + P on macOS) to open the command palette.
• Type "Reload Window" and select the "Developer: Reload Window" option. This will reload the Visual Studio Code window.
• Once the window is reloaded, open a new terminal by clicking on the plus icon in the terminal panel or using the shortcut Ctrl + ` (backtick).

After this, my terminal started working normally.