LS fails to start on opensuse: Couldn't find a valid ICU package installed on the system. Set the configuration flag System.Globalization.Invariant to true if you want to run with no globalization support.

[PowerSnail]

Environment data

• VS Code version: 1.28.2
• Extension version (available under the Extensions sidebar): 2018.9.1
• OS and version: OpenSUSE Tumbleweed
• Python version (& distribution if applicable, e.g. Anaconda): 3.7
• Type of virtual environment used (N/A | venv | virtualenv | conda | ...): None
• Relevant/affected Python packages and their versions: NA

Actual behavior

Language server failed to start

Expected behavior

Language server starts.

Steps to reproduce:

1. install python extension
2. open a python file
3. watch the language server fail

Logs

Output for Python in the Output panel (View→Output, change the drop-down the upper-right of the Output panel to Python)

Starting Microsoft Python language server.
FailFast:
Couldn't find a valid ICU package installed on the system. Set the configuration flag System.Globalization.Invariant to true if you want to run with no globalization support.

   at System.Environment.FailFast(System.String)
   at System.Globalization.GlobalizationMode.GetGlobalizationInvariantMode()
   at System.Globalization.GlobalizationMode..cctor()
   at System.Globalization.CultureData.CreateCultureWithInvariantData()
   at System.Globalization.CultureData.get_Invariant()
   at System.Globalization.CultureInfo..cctor()
   at System.StringComparer..cctor()
   at System.AppDomain.InitializeCompatibilityFlags()
   at System.AppDomain.Setup(System.Object)
[Error - 10:51:35 PM] Connection to server is erroring. Shutting down server.
[Error - 10:51:35 PM] Connection to server is erroring. Shutting down server.
[Error - 10:51:35 PM] Connection to server is erroring. Shutting down server.

[brettcannon]

If you're running on Tumbleweed then it's quite possible your copy of ICU is too new for .NET Core to use. You can switch back to Jedi with "python.jediEnabled": true to continue to get IntelliSense.