On a freash neovim installation kickstart throws a "name too long" error

[Still-Here-0]

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Describe the bug

I don't really know what this error is. I am new to neovim, I trying to make this work for the last 2 days... but it simply don't. After installing kickstart I am prompted to install some plugins (lazy UI does not show up):

These plugins will be installed:

guess-ident.nvim from https://github.com/NMAC427/guess-ident.nvim

Processed? [Y]es, (N)o, (A)lways:

I press "A", them I get this error:

Error in /home/user/.config/nvim-kickstart/init.lua:
E5113: Lua chunk: /home/user/.config/nvim-kickstart/init.lua:397: Vim:E5113: Lua chunk: vim/loader.lua:0: ENAMETOOLON
G: name too long: /home/user/.cache/nvim-kickstart/luac/%2fhome%2fuser%2f.local%2fshare%2fnvim-kickstart%2fsite%2fpa
ck%2fcore%2fopt%2ftokyonight.nvim%2flua%2ftokyonight%2fgroups%2fmini_trailspace.luac
stack traceback:
        [C]: in function 'assert'
        vim/loader.lua: in function ''
        vim/loader.lua: in function 'loadfile'
        ...te/pack/core/opt/tokyonight.nvim/lua/tokyonight/util.lua:22: in function 'get_group'
        .../core/opt/tokyonight.nvim/lua/tokyonight/groups/init.lua:88: in function 'get'
        .../core/opt/tokyonight.nvim/lua/tokyonight/groups/init.lua:155: in function 'setup'
        ...e/pack/core/opt/tokyonight.nvim/lua/tokyonight/theme.lua:8: in function 'load'
        ...ack/core/opt/tokyonight.nvim/colors/tokyonight-night.lua:1: in main chunk
        [C]: in function 'colorscheme'
        /home/user/.config/nvim-kickstart/init.lua:397: in main chunk
stack traceback:
        [C]: in function 'colorscheme'
        /home/user/.config/nvim-kickstart/init.lua:397: in main chunk

To Reproduce

1. Download ghostty:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mkasberg/ghostty-ubuntu
sudo apt update
sudo apt install ghostty

2. Download neovim

cargo install bob-nvim
bob install stable
bob use stable
bob list

3. Download some tools

sudo apt install ripgrep
sudo apt install fd-find
sudo apt install fzf
go install github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit@latest
sudo npm install -g @mermaid-js/mermaid-cli

4. Clone my repo (I just made a fork from kickstart main branch)

git clone https://github.com/Still-Here-0/my-nvim.git ~/.config/nvim-kickstart

5. Set alias on .bashrc

alias kvim='NVIM_APPNAME="nvim-kickstart" nvim'

NOTE: I do have lazyvim on my machine but it is in another folder called "nvim-lazy" with the alias set to lzvim. And yes it works with not problem.

If I comment line 93 ("vim.loader.enable()") from init.lua I no longer get this error. However I do not know if I shoud do this.

Desktop

• OS: Linux Mint 22.3
• Terminal: Ghostty (latest, v1.3.1)

Neovim Version

nvim --version
NVIM v0.12.2
Build type: Release
LuaJIT 2.1.1774638290
Run "nvim -V1 -v" for more info

[nathanzeng]

I unfortunately cannot diagnose your specific error, but I can say that removing the line vim.loader.enable() is absolutely OK. The purpose of that line is to slightly speed up your startup time. Removing it will not break your config.

Did you already try a clean install?

rm -rf ~/.local/share/nvim-kickstart/
rm -rf ~/.local/state/nvim-kickstart/
rm -rf ~/.cache/nvim-kickstart/

[TomJGooding]

Removing that line is probably your best solution - just to add that I found this upstream issue which looks relevant:

• vim.loader luac cache file names gets too long on ecryptfs neovim/neovim#29372