golangci-lint shows "killed" immediately

[tzookb]

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Description of the problem

when I try to run any command for "golangci-lint"
like:

golangci-lint
golangci-lint run .
golangci-lint version
etc...

it shows:

[1]    18319 killed     golangci-lint --version

Version of golangci-lint

$ golangci-lint --version
1.61.0

I cant dump the full content, I just know its the version.

Configuration

# paste configuration file or CLI flags here

Go environment

$ go version && go env

go version go1.21.0 darwin/arm64
GO111MODULE='on'
GOARCH='arm64'
GOBIN='/xxxxxxx/build-support/go/bin'
GOCACHE='/Users/tzookb/Library/Caches/go-build'
GOENV='/Users/tzookb/Library/Application Support/go/env'
GOEXE=''
GOEXPERIMENT=''
GOFLAGS='-modcacherw'
GOHOSTARCH='arm64'
GOHOSTOS='darwin'
GOINSECURE=''
GOMODCACHE='/xxxxxxx/build-support/go/pkg/mod'
GONOPROXY=''
GONOSUMDB='*'
GOOS='darwin'
GOPATH='/xxxxxxx/build-support/go'
GOPRIVATE=''
GOPROXY='https://xxxxxxxx@artifacts.zzzzzz.net/repository/go'
GOROOT='/xxxxxxx/build-support/go/sdk'
GOSUMDB='off'
GOTMPDIR=''
GOTOOLCHAIN='auto'
GOTOOLDIR='/xxxxxxx/build-support/go/sdk/pkg/tool/darwin_arm64'
GOVCS=''
GOVERSION='go1.21.0'
GCCGO='gccgo'
AR='ar'
CC='clang'
CXX='clang++'
CGO_ENABLED='1'
GOMOD='/dev/null'
GOWORK=''
CGO_CFLAGS='-O2 -g'
CGO_CPPFLAGS=''
CGO_CXXFLAGS='-O2 -g'
CGO_FFLAGS='-O2 -g'
CGO_LDFLAGS='-O2 -g'
PKG_CONFIG='pkg-config'
GOGCCFLAGS='-fPIC -arch arm64 -pthread -fno-caret-diagnostics -Qunused-arguments -fmessage-length=0 -ffile-prefix-map=/var/folders/4c/xxxxxx/T/go-build2617350968=/tmp/go-build -gno-record-gcc-switches -fno-common'

Verbose output of running

$ golangci-lint cache clean
$ golangci-lint run -v

[1]    29434 killed     golangci-lint cache clean

A minimal reproducible example or link to a public repository

/not even checking the code

Validation

• Yes, I've included all information above (version, config, etc.).

Supporter

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[tzookb]

I did try to run the code directly and it gave me a response.
So I built it directly from code with:

GOOS=darwin GOARCH=arm64 go build cmd/golangci-lint/main.go

but then running the executable gave the same "killed" error again

[ldez]

Hello,

The process can be killed for different reasons:

• problem with GOOS/ARCH: if the binary is compiled for a specific GOOS/ARCH and used on another tuple.
• problem with the Go version used to build golangci-lint.
• problem with memory consumption (in 99% of the case it's related to a problem with the Go version)

But in your case, you must use at least go1.22 to compile golangci-lint.

There is no need for explicit GOOS/ARCH unless you are compiling for another system than yours.

Also, I recommend using our binaries instead of compiling (go install/go run/go build are compilations and not downloads).

https://golangci-lint.run/welcome/install/#binaries

[tzookb]

ended up using this to solve the issue:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51833310/what-is-killed9-and-how-to-fix-in-macos-terminal

codesign --sign - --force --preserve-metadata=entitlements,requirements,flags,runtime /path-to/golangci-lint

[jmoody]

This is also happening to me. It started two weeks ago. It hasn't happened yet for any of my colleagues.

macOS 14.7
Xcode 16.0

The process is killed because of an invalid code signature.

This is the only go binary where I've observed this problem.

go install github.com/golangci/golangci-lint/cmd/golangci-lint@latest

/Users/moody/go/1.22.5/bin/golangci-lint --version
zsh: killed     /Users/moody/go/1.22.5/bin/golangci-lint --version

codesign -vvvv /Users/moody/go/1.22.5/bin/golangci-lint
/Users/moody/go/1.22.5/bin/golangci-lint: invalid signature (code or signature have been modified)
In architecture: arm64

sample crash report

Like the original poster, resigning worked for me.

codesign --force --deep --sign - _tools/bin/golangci-lin

[ldez]

Based on issues on Go: https://github.com/golang/go/issues?q=is%3Aissue+%22Code+Signature+Invalid%22+is%3Aclosed

The problem seems to be related to tooling inside MacOS.