Copilot stopped working

mzimmers

Hi all -

I just noticed that Copilot isn't doing anything for me anymore. It was working as of a couple days ago. I signed out and back in, and restarted Creator. Even updated to Creator 15.0.0. I'm getting none of the editor help I used to get. Anyone else seeing anything like this?

mz

cristian-adam

Since node.js is used by Qt Creator, have a look at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29283040/how-to-add-custom-certificate-authority-ca-to-nodejs

SGaist

Hi,

Just in case, did you try to start creator from the command line with all logs activated to see if there's any message related ?

mzimmers

hi @SGaist I just now tried that - no messages at all. In Creator's "General Messages" section, however, I did get this:

LanguageClient Copilot: Error: [ghostText] Error on ghost text request: FetchError: self-signed certificate in certificate chain

Some searching revealed that the culprit might be my company's IT department.

There's a posted solution involving the use of win-ca, but I don't know how to invoke the 2nd step:

1. Just say npm install --save win-ca
2. Then call require('win-ca').

SGaist

This seems to apply to VS Code.
I don't know wether it would be the same stuff in the case of Qt Creator.

cristian-adam

copilot works here with Qt Creator 15 on macOS.

SGaist

@cristian-adam do you also have a firewall as @mzimmers has ?

mzimmers

Evidently my IT department is somewhat aware of this issue, though they don't know how to fix it for Creator (I'm the only one here who uses it). Here are their suggestions for Android Studio:

Android Studio 
Open Android Studio and navigate to Preferences > Tools > Server Certificates. 
Click the + button to add a new certificate. 
Select and import the rootcaCert.cer file. 
Restart Android Studio for the changes to take effect.

Any ideas on how this might translate to Creator?

cristian-adam

Since node.js is used by Qt Creator, have a look at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29283040/how-to-add-custom-certificate-authority-ca-to-nodejs

mzimmers

@cristian-adam that link looks very promising. It looks like there are a few variations on the proposed solution -- any idea which one I should use?

I'm running on Windows 11.

EDIT:

Problem solved.

set NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS=C:\ProgramData\Netskope\stagent\data\rootcaCert.cer

Or perform the equivalent from the Windows app to set environment variables.

The standard installation of Netskope only seems to include files in .pem.enc format, so my IT guy had to give me the .cer file. But...it works!

Thanks to all who looked.