VSCode Jupyter Notebook - Python 3.13 + Apache Spark kernel freezes randomly with blue progress bar stuck #17141
Description
When running Apache Spark on Python 3.13 inside VSCode Jupyter Notebook, a continuous blue progress bar appears at the top of VSCode. The notebook cells randomly stop executing even though the kernel is still shown as “running”. Restarting the kernel temporarily fixes the issue, but after some time it happens again.
After restarting VSCode, I can no longer open my .ipynb notebook file it stays stuck on the loading screen and never opens. This happens right after the previous freeze and blue progress bar issue.