Installing golang.org/x/tools/gopls FAILED

[stereoit]

What version of Go, VS Code & VS Code Go extension are you using?

• Run go version to get version of Go

  • go version go1.13.6 linux/amd64

• Run code -v or code-insiders -v to get version of VS Code or VS Code Insiders

  • 1.43.0
    78a4c91400152c0f27ba4d363eb56d2835f9903a
    x64

• Check your installed extensions to get the version of the VS Code Go extension

  • 0.13.1

• Run go env GOOS GOARCH to get the operating system and processor architecture details

  • linux
    amd64

Share the Go related settings you have added/edited

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"go.useLanguageServer": true,
    
    "go.vetFlags": [
        "-composites=false"
    ],

Describe the bug

After opening VS Code I get message to update tools, clicking update I get failure in the Output tab.
A clear and concise description of what you expected to happen.

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

go.toolsGopath setting is not set. Using GOPATH /home/rsmol/go
Installing 1 tool at /home/rsmol/go/bin in module mode.
  gopls

Installing golang.org/x/tools/gopls FAILED

1 tools failed to install.

gopls:
Error: Command failed: /usr/lib/golang/bin/go get -v golang.org/x/tools/gopls
get "golang.org/x/tools": found meta tag get.metaImport{Prefix:"golang.org/x/tools", VCS:"git", RepoRoot:"https://go.googlesource.com/tools"} at //golang.org/x/tools?go-get=1
get "golang.org/x/tools/gopls": found meta tag get.metaImport{Prefix:"golang.org/x/tools", VCS:"git", RepoRoot:"https://go.googlesource.com/tools"} at //golang.org/x/tools/gopls?go-get=1
get "golang.org/x/tools/gopls": verifying non-authoritative meta tag
go: finding golang.org/x/tools latest
go: downloading golang.org/x/tools v0.0.0-20200318054722-11a475a590ac
go: extracting golang.org/x/tools v0.0.0-20200318054722-11a475a590ac
go get: golang.org/x/tools/[email protected] requires
	golang.org/x/[email protected]: invalid version: unknown revision 6862ededa516
get "golang.org/x/tools": found meta tag get.metaImport{Prefix:"golang.org/x/tools", VCS:"git", RepoRoot:"https://go.googlesource.com/tools"} at //golang.org/x/tools?go-get=1
get "golang.org/x/tools/gopls": found meta tag get.metaImport{Prefix:"golang.org/x/tools", VCS:"git", RepoRoot:"https://go.googlesource.com/tools"} at //golang.org/x/tools/gopls?go-get=1
get "golang.org/x/tools/gopls": verifying non-authoritative meta tag
go: finding golang.org/x/tools latest
go: downloading golang.org/x/tools v0.0.0-20200318054722-11a475a590ac
go: extracting golang.org/x/tools v0.0.0-20200318054722-11a475a590ac
go get: golang.org/x/tools/[email protected] requires
	golang.org/x/[email protected]: invalid version: unknown revision 6862ededa516

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[hyangah]

It looks like the go command was trying to download dependencies using git instead of using GOPROXY proxies and hit a git bug. Can you try the workaround mentioned in golang/go#37140 (comment) ?

[stamblerre]

Going to close this issue since there hasn't been much activity here. @stereoit: please reopen if you're still having this issue.