Conda stopped working with the debug feature in visual studio code for no apparent reason

Question

To note:

• Pressing F5 (start debugging) correctly activates the conda environment
• The environment of the IDE is indeed the desired conda environment. Python 3.9.7 ('conda environment name': conda)
• The conda environment works if done through the terminal instead of the F5 debugging feature

After the environment is activated and I press F5 nothing happens and nothing is logged to the visual studio code logs. It does not work with any conda environment I have including 'base'.

This is the only thing that happens when I press F5:

Starts debugging, as expected.

One / two seconds later:

If I change the code interpreter to just Python 3.9.7 the code does in fact run. And again, if I run the conda enviroment THROUGH the terminal instead of F5 (and giving up on debugging, which I need) the conda enviroment also works.

To reiterate, no debug logs in Visual Studio Code, including files.

Any idea on how to tackle this? Been stuck for a while.

Machine is an ubuntu 20.04