diff --git a/editors/code/src/main.ts b/editors/code/src/main.ts
index 4f46345d6b..8a7c817276 100644
--- a/editors/code/src/main.ts
+++ b/editors/code/src/main.ts
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ export async function activate(context: vscode.ExtensionContext) {
     vscode.workspace.onDidChangeConfiguration(() => ensureProperExtensionVersion(config).catch(log.error));
 
     // Don't await the user response here, otherwise we will block the lsp server bootstrap
-    void ensureProperExtensionVersion(config);
+    void ensureProperExtensionVersion(config).catch(log.error);
 
     const serverPath = await ensureServerBinary(config);