VS.NET 2017 hangs on startup with AnkhSVN 2.9.58 installed

[pjaffe]

My VS.NET Professional 2017 v15.5.6 instance started ending up in one of 2 states as of last week:

1. Visual Studio 2017 splash screen visible, with between 40-60MB of memory allocated to the devenv.exe and a basically idle CPU, and it never progresses past that point.
2. The Visual Studio 2017 IDE windows open, but with minimal content in them, and I never get control over it. About 100MB of RAM basically idle CPU.

I wonder if this is related to #6 , but I don't see a crash.

Booting via devenv.exe /safeMode brings up VS.NET fine. The only way I have been able to launch VS.NET normally is by uninstalling the AnkhSVN extension from within safe mode. I've gone through this cycle twice: uninstalling AnkhSVN to have VS.NET launch successfully, reinstalling AnkhSVN and ending up with the same problems, and then uninstalling AnkhSVN again to have VS.NET launch successfully.

I noticed AnkhSVN 2.9.58 was released on 5/19/21 and was showing as installed in my VS.NET instance via auto update. And this was right around the time this problem started occurring.

Of course, there could be some other interaction going on with my system, but I'm curious if anyone else has hit this. Also, if someone can tell me what log files and/or other diagnostic info would be helpful, I'm more than happy to supply it!

For now, I'm just falling back on entirely relying on TortoiseSVN outside the IDE.

[rhuijben]

Thanks for reporting this issue. I'm currently not able to reproduce this issue, but would welcome anybody who has more info to add information here.

[Wolfgang-F-dev]

I have exactly the same issue, but for me only scenario 1 described by pjaffe occurs. I don't know exactly when it started either, since AnkhSVN is updated automatically. Visual Studio 2017 v15.2.
Are there any logfiles or diagnostic information that I can activate and provide?