Processing of luarocks fails when cwd is rocks or plugin directory

[salkin-mada]

I just stumbled upon this:
cd ~/.local/share/nvim/rocks/share/lua/5.1/rocks
and then running neovim throws:

Error detected while processing /Users/salkin/.local/share/nvim/rocks/lib/luarocks/rocks-5.1/rocks-git.nvim/1.5.0-1/plugin/rocks-git.lua:                                  
E5113: Error while calling lua chunk: ./fzy.lua:21: loop or previous error loading module 'fzy'                                                                            
stack traceback:                                                                                                                                                           
        [C]: in function 'require'                                                                                                                                         
        ./fzy.lua:21: in main chunk                                                                                                                                        
        [C]: in function 'require'                                                                                                                                         
        ...lkin/.local/share/nvim/rocks/share/lua/5.1/rocks/fzy.lua:21: in main chunk                                                                                      
        [C]: in function 'require'                                                                                                                                         
        ....local/share/nvim/rocks/share/lua/5.1/rocks/commands.lua:53: in main chunk                                                                                      
        [C]: in function 'require'                                                                                                                                         
        ....local/share/nvim/rocks/share/lua/5.1/rocks/api/init.lua:27: in main chunk                                                                                      
        [C]: in function 'require'                                                                                                                                         
        ...ks/rocks-5.1/rocks-git.nvim/1.5.0-1/plugin/rocks-git.lua:4: in main chunk                                                                                       
Error detected while processing /Users/salkin/.local/share/nvim/rocks/lib/luarocks/rocks-5.1/rocks-treesitter.nvim/scm-1/plugin/rocks-treesitter.lua:                      
E5113: Error while calling lua chunk: ...are/nvim/rocks/share/lua/5.1/rocks_treesitter/config.lua:14: loop or previous error loading module 'rocks.api'                    
stack traceback:                                                                                                                                                           
        [C]: in function 'require'                                                                                                                                         
        ...are/nvim/rocks/share/lua/5.1/rocks_treesitter/config.lua:14: in main chunk                                                                                      
        [C]: in function 'require'                                                                                                                                         
        .../rocks-treesitter.nvim/scm-1/plugin/rocks-treesitter.lua:5: in main chunk                                                                                       
Error detected while processing /Users/salkin/.local/share/nvim/rocks/lib/luarocks/rocks-5.1/rocks.nvim/2.26.0-1/plugin/rocks.lua:                                         
E5113: Error while calling lua chunk: .../luarocks/rocks-5.1/rocks.nvim/2.26.0-1/plugin/rocks.lua:33: loop or previous error loading module 'rocks.commands'               
stack traceback:                                                                                                                                                           
        [C]: in function 'require'                                                                                                                                         
        .../luarocks/rocks-5.1/rocks.nvim/2.26.0-1/plugin/rocks.lua:33: in main chunk

Then doing a cd .. to get out of the rocks folder into ~/.local/share/nvim/rocks/share/lua/5.1
Run neovim from that cwd -> it is fine. All good. I can even navigate with netrw/fzf to the rocks folder and open/edit files. All good.

So rocks.nvim fails if cwd is the rocks path it self?

NVIM v0.10.0-dev-3045+gefaf37a2b
Build type: RelWithDebInfo
LuaJIT 2.1.1713484068
Run "nvim -V1 -v" for more info

[mrcjkb]

🤔 I suppose it could be a bug in the luarocks loader?
Does it happen if you set enable_luarocks_loader = false in your vim.g.rocks_nvim config?

[salkin-mada]

Can you reproduce?

I added:

-- Lua Rocks --
local rocks_config = {
    rocks_path = vim.env.HOME .. "/.local/share/nvim/rocks",
    luarocks_binary = vim.env.HOME .. "/.local/share/nvim/rocks/bin/luarocks",
	enable_luarocks_loader = false
}

vim.g.rocks_nvim = rocks_config

and did the same cd and nvim as mentioned before. Same error

[salkin-mada]

A bug in rocks-git maybe?

[mrcjkb]

Can you reproduce?

No, because I have rocks.nvim installed with nix.
@vhyrro are you able to reproduce this?

[boydkelly]

I also was just migrating my config files (from lazy) and had a lot of issues with this the last few days. My setup files are in the plugin directory. I finally figured out that if that is my cwd then I get the above errors for a good portion (but not all) of my setup files. I haven`t investigated that further as my workaround was just to back out of the plugin before editing any files there. Not sure what other info I might be able to provide.... (I am super happy with nvim-rocks!!!) Thanks!!

sample errors if cwd is nvim-rocks/plugin(otherwise no errors):

Error detected while processing /var/home/bkelly/.config/nvim-rocks/plugin/conform.lua:
E5113: Error while calling lua chunk: ./conform.lua:43: loop or previous error loading module 'conform'
stack traceback:
        [C]: in function 'require'
        ./conform.lua:43: in main chunk
        [C]: in function 'require'
        /var/home/bkelly/.config/nvim-rocks/plugin/conform.lua:43: in main chunk
Error detected while processing /var/home/bkelly/.config/nvim-rocks/plugin/dressing.lua:
E5113: Error while calling lua chunk: ./dressing.lua:36: loop or previous error loading module 'dressing'
stack traceback:
        [C]: in function 'require'
        ./dressing.lua:36: in main chunk
        [C]: in function 'require'
        /var/home/bkelly/.config/nvim-rocks/plugin/dressing.lua:36: in main chunk
Error detected while processing /var/home/bkelly/.config/nvim-rocks/plugin/fidget.lua:
E5113: Error while calling lua chunk: ./fidget.lua:1: loop or previous error loading module 'fidget'
stack traceback:
        [C]: in function 'require'
        ./fidget.lua:1: in main chunk
        [C]: in function 'require'
        /var/home/bkelly/.config/nvim-rocks/plugin/fidget.lua:1: in main chunk
Error detected while processing /var/home/bkelly/.config/nvim-rocks/plugin/fzf-lua.lua:
E5113: Error while calling lua chunk: ./fzf-lua.lua:1: loop or previous error loading module 'fzf-lua'
stack traceback:
        [C]: in function 'require'
        ./fzf-lua.lua:1: in main chunk
        [C]: in function 'require'
        /var/home/bkelly/.config/nvim-rocks/plugin/fzf-lua.lua:1: in main chunk

[mrcjkb]

@boydkelly thanks for the input and nice words.
I just set up a minimal plain (non-nix) rocks.nvim installation (with NVIM_APPNAME set to rocksvim, no plugins installed),
and tried the following:

cd ~/.config/rocksvim
mkdir plugin
cd plugin
nvim dressing.lua

and did not encounter any errors.
Do you have a link to your rocks.toml so that I can try and bisect it?

[salkin-mada]

@boydkelly what system are you on?
I am having trouble reproducing this on Arch in any of the mentioned paths, but on the macOS ~/.local/share/nvim/rocks/share/lua/5.1/rocks is fail.
Also I cant reproduce the error in my plugins folder on any of the systems -> ~/.config/nvim/lua/plugins/

[mrcjkb]

@boydkelly what system are you on? I am having trouble reproducing this on Arch in any of the mentioned paths, but on the macOS ~/.local/share/nvim/rocks/share/lua/5.1/rocks is fail. Also I cant reproduce the error in my plugins folder on any of the systems -> ~/.config/nvim/lua/plugins/

Ooh, could it be a path with spaces in it or something? 🤔

[boydkelly]

@mrcjkb So strange! I am in a Fedora 40 container. I did have luarocks installed in the container and removed that but still the same issue. Here is the complete repo. (Its working mostly, although a work in progress moving from lazy)
https://gitlab.com/boydkelly/nvim-rocks.git

I am also using NVIM_APPNAME=nvim-rocks, and was wondering if that somehow might be a problem? I will try to move it all to ./config/nvim and see if that makes any difference. For now I just have to not edit any of the files in plugin.

My config does seem to be mostly working otherwise. Couple of issues that I will report later if I don't solve.

Just an fyi, I don't have to edit a file in plugin. If plugin is my cwd, then just running nvim-rocks will output an ton of those errors, but if i start nvim-rocks anywhere else it works fine.

[mrcjkb]

Thanks. I'll see if I can reproduce it with your config later 👀

[kflak]

Running into a similar issue here on my Arch Linux install after the last Rocks update. I can edit files just fine from anywhere but my plugin config folder, which in my case is ~/.config/nvim/lua/rocks-plugs

Errors:

Error detected while processing /home/kf/.local/share/nvim/rocks/lib/luarocks/rocks-5.1/luasnip/2.3.0-1/plugin/luasnip.lua:
E5113: Error while calling lua chunk: ....local/share/nvim/rocks/share/lua/5.1/luasnip/config.lua:100: attempt to index a boolean value
stack traceback:
        ....local/share/nvim/rocks/share/lua/5.1/luasnip/config.lua:100: in function '_setup'
        ...ib/luarocks/rocks-5.1/luasnip/2.3.0-1/plugin/luasnip.lua:79: in main chunk

and

Vim:E5113: Error while calling lua chunk: ....local/share/nvim/rocks/share/lua/5.1/luasnip/config.lua:100: attempt to index a boolean value
stack traceback:                                                                                                                                  
^I....local/share/nvim/rocks/share/lua/5.1/luasnip/config.lua:100: in function '_setup'                                                           
^I...ib/luarocks/rocks-5.1/luasnip/2.3.0-1/plugin/luasnip.lua:79: in main chunk                                                                   
^I[C]: at 0x61d5a6b8f110                                                                                                                          
^I[C]: in function 'pcall'                                                                                                                        
^I.../.local/share/nvim/rocks/share/lua/5.1/rocks/runtime.lua:35: in function 'packadd'                                                           
^I.../.local/share/nvim/rocks/share/lua/5.1/rocks/runtime.lua:61: in function 'source_start_plugins'                                              
^I.../luarocks/rocks-5.1/rocks.nvim/2.27.1-1/plugin/rocks.lua:59: in main chunk 

My dotfiles are here, hopefully they can help you replicate.

[mrcjkb]

@boydkelly I just installed all of your plugins with NVIM_APPNAME = nvim-rocks.

• I got a stack overflow error when starting (no matter what the cwd). This was caused by hotpot.nvim, so I removed it.
  If you are facing the same error, you could probably work around it by setting vim.g.rocks_nvim.enable_luarocks_loader to false. This is either a bug in the hotpot.nvim loader or in the luarocks loader.
• I was not able to reproduce the behaviour 😞

@kflak the symptom seems related, but the error message looks different. It seems to be something thrown by luasnip. What makes it even stranger is that there's nothing but a parenthesis at the specified location (config.lua, line 100) at the v2.3.0 tag.
There's a call to require("luasnip") at line 99. Maybe there's something funky going on with the luarocks loader and that is returning a boolean instead of a module?
But others have not been able to work around the issue by setting the enable_luarocks_loader config to false.

[mrcjkb]

@kflak I just tried with you config too, and couldn't reproduce it either.
Maybe somehow your installations (rocks or plugins) got corrupted? You could try cleaning and reinstalling rocks.nvim and/or the affected plugins.

[kflak]

@kflak I just tried with you config too, and couldn't reproduce it either. Maybe somehow your installations (rocks or plugins) got corrupted? You could try cleaning and reinstalling rocks.nvim and/or the affected plugins.

OK, I've managed to narrow it down to luasnip. The error doesn't happen when I install it with rocks-git, so there's something smelly with the rocks package, I suppose...

[mrcjkb]

@kflak I just tried with you config too, and couldn't reproduce it either. Maybe somehow your installations (rocks or plugins) got corrupted? You could try cleaning and reinstalling rocks.nvim and/or the affected plugins.

OK, I've managed to narrow it down to luasnip. The error doesn't happen when I install it with rocks-git, so there's something smelly with the rocks package, I suppose...

Maybe the bug was fixed but not released yet?

[kflak]

@kflak I just tried with you config too, and couldn't reproduce it either. Maybe somehow your installations (rocks or plugins) got corrupted? You could try cleaning and reinstalling rocks.nvim and/or the affected plugins.

OK, I've managed to narrow it down to luasnip. The error doesn't happen when I install it with rocks-git, so there's something smelly with the rocks package, I suppose...

Maybe the bug was fixed but not released yet?

Kind of doubt it, there hasn't been a commit there since 14 April, and I didn't have this problem before now...

[mrcjkb]

Kind of doubt it, there hasn't been a commit there since 14 April, and I didn't have this problem before now...

I'm seeing commits on April 16, 21 and 30.

[boydkelly]

Just an update here. I made a basic install with only:

[rocks]

# List of Neovim plugins to install alongside their versions.
# If the plugin name contains a dot then you must add quotes to the key name!
[plugins]
"rocks.nvim" = "2.29.0"
"rocks-git.nvim" = "1.5.1"
"rocks-treesitter.nvim" = "scm"
tree-sitter-vimdoc = "scm"
tree-sitter-lua = "scm"
"oil.nvim" = "2.9.0"

https://gitlab.com/boydkelly/nvim-nb.git

I still get the following error starting neovim if my cwd is plugin:

Error detected while processing /var/home/bkelly/.config/nvim-nb/plugin/oil.lua:
E5113: Error while calling lua chunk: ./oil.lua:1: loop or previous error loading module 'oil'
stack traceback:
        [C]: in function 'require'
        ./oil.lua:1: in main chunk
        [C]: in function 'require'
        /var/home/bkelly/.config/nvim-nb/plugin/oil.lua:1: in main chunk

I get this same error in both an Arch and Fedora container, as well as on a Fedora workstation. Albeit both the Arch and Fedora containers are toolboxes and share the same bash profile etc. However I don't see anything in PATH or environment that could affect this. The Fedora container contains a bunch of development stuff, but the Arch install is only the base container image + neovim.