I recently updated my Windows-System to Win11 25H2 Bild 26200. From this on I cannot attach to any process via debugpy any more. I have my launch.json as this:
{
"version": "0.2.0",
"configurations": [
{
"name": "Python Debugger: Attach using Process Id",
"type": "debugpy",
"request": "attach",
"processId": "${command:pickProcess}",
"justMyCode": false
}
]
}When starting debugging for that configuration, nothing happens, despite the debugging-toolbar changing and hanging indefinitly:
However no log is written to the console. Usually I get the process-picker and once I chose one process to attach to I get this in my debug-console:
Attaching to PID: 5096 (elapsed: 1.00s).
Attaching to PID: 5096 (elapsed: 2.00s).
Attaching to PID: 5096 (elapsed: 3.00s).
Attaching to PID: 5096 (elapsed: 4.00s).
Attaching to PID: 5096 (elapsed: 5.00s).
After the update the process-picker no longer is displayed. Using hard-coded PID in my launch.json (like 5096 in the example above) works, however.
I checked exthost.log and found this, though:
2026-09-30 10:36:07.925 [error] Error: spawn wmic ENOENT
at ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:287:19)
at onErrorNT (node:internal/child_process:525:16)
at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:90:21)
Seems like WMIC is causing the issue, which isn't available any more.
I am using VS Code 1.139.1, Win11 25H2 26200
I recently updated my Windows-System to Win11 25H2 Bild 26200. From this on I cannot attach to any process via debugpy any more. I have my launch.json as this:
{ "version": "0.2.0", "configurations": [ { "name": "Python Debugger: Attach using Process Id", "type": "debugpy", "request": "attach", "processId": "${command:pickProcess}", "justMyCode": false } ] }When starting debugging for that configuration, nothing happens, despite the debugging-toolbar changing and hanging indefinitly:
However no log is written to the console. Usually I get the process-picker and once I chose one process to attach to I get this in my debug-console:
After the update the process-picker no longer is displayed. Using hard-coded PID in my launch.json (like 5096 in the example above) works, however.
I checked exthost.log and found this, though:
Seems like WMIC is causing the issue, which isn't available any more.
I am using VS Code 1.139.1, Win11 25H2 26200