I have similar problem as mentioned here. But in my situation, it pup out gzip and tar error after wget download complete response.

The weird thing is that I find out my target ssh server downloaded a empty (size = 0 byte) vscode-remote-lock.[#commit] file. In my opinion, maybe the error of gzip/tar is caused by the empty vscode-remote-lock.[#commit].

These issues cannot be solved by different versions of VS Code and Remote-SSH Extension.

I had try to download and unzip the vscdoe-server-linux-x64.tar.gz in my target ssh server .vscode-server/ folder by myself. ( Reference here ) Everything goes well and Remote-SSH extension on work successfully.

How can I find out the root cause and solve it ?

• VS Code version: 1.42.1
• VS CodeRemote-SSH Extension version: 0.49.0
• Local host OS version: Win 7

• Remote SSH server OS version: Ubuntu 18.04.01 image on RHEL 7.5

  My target ssh server is a Kubernetes Pod equipped with openssh-server, wget, gzip, tar package on RHEL 7.5.

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