Troubleshooting Dev Container issues

I have the Empty Building Dev Container dialog with disabled buttons

Try to check Docker, and if it hangs, restart it.

For Windows 10, connection by SSH is very slow

Upgrade the OpenSSH version to 8.5 or later.

Git clone doesn't work, and the opened project on the Client is empty despite added keys

Try to check the following:

• Check if the OpenSSH Client is in your PATH in the System variables: C:\Windows\System32\OpenSSH\ and restart OS.

• Run commands for running SSH agent and add keys.

• Change the permissions for SSH keys to 600 (readable only by the owner; other users cannot read or write).

Potential UI freeze

The UI might freeze when the WSL VM is suspended while the ijent process is running on it. JetBrains Rider does not detect the terminated connection because the ijent process itself is not stopped—it simply stops responding to requests, causing all requests to hang.

The potential reasons for such behavior include the following:

• docker container pause (invoked manually or from Docker Desktop) suspends the container. If the Dev Container is currently open in the IDE, was opened in the past, or the user attempts to open it, all this can lead to the potential UI freeze.

• On Windows, the Docker desktop Pause and Resource Saver features can cause WSL suspensions due to an issue in Docker. This means that even the users who never open Docker projects in JetBrains Rider but work with WSL projects and use Docker at the same time may encounter the problem caused by Docker Desktop inference. We recommend always disabling the Resource Saver option in Docker Desktop on Windows, and avoid the use of the Pause option.