Shell execution timed out?

[Randark-JMT]

I'm encountering a problem where the terminal consistently shows a delayed environment activation when using venv.

In the VS Code output window, under the Python Environment tab, I see the following information:

2026-01-09 09:32:00.754 [error] Shell execution timed out: & D:\_Code\test\env-3_14\Scripts\Activate.ps1
2026-01-09 09:32:00.754 [info] Terminal is activated: d:\_Code\test\env-3_14\Scripts\python.exe

However, the script itself is actually fine.

PS D:\_Code\test> Measure-Command { & D: D:\_Code\test\env-3_14\Scripts\Activate.ps1 }   

Days              : 0
Hours             : 0
Minutes           : 0
Seconds           : 0
Milliseconds      : 5
Ticks             : 50536
TotalDays         : 5.84907407407407E-08
TotalHours        : 1.40377777777778E-06
TotalMinutes      : 8.42266666666667E-05
TotalSeconds      : 0.0050536
TotalMilliseconds : 5.0536

[Randark-JMT]

The good news is that after using this setting

"python-envs.terminal.autoActivationType": "shellStartup"

the delayed activation issue was resolved. However, I'm still curious why command mode encountered a timeout problem.

[eleanorjboyd]

@anthonykim1