Portable gcc rp2040 does not compile in vscode, it claims it cannot find the portable

Can you please confirm the tick interrupt is working. If it isn’t then the system won’t see time change, so tasks that are blocked with a timeout will never unblock.

Check if time is advancing using xTaskGetTickCount()

for (;;) {
    printf("Tick: %lu\n", xTaskGetTickCount());
    vTaskDelay(pdMS_TO_TICKS(1000)); // Delay for 1 second
}