Being spammed with errors when opening a file as sudo

[farzadmf]

Describe the bug
I'm on Archlinux and opening sudo nvim /etc/pacman.conf (which is owned by root), and ultest is spamming me with errors. For every motion that I do, I'm getting an error:

Error detected while processing function ultest#handler#get_nearest_test[1]..<SNR>503_Call[3].._ultest_get_nearest_test[1]..remote#define#request:
line    2:
Error invoking '/home/farzad/.vim/plugged/vim-ultest/rplugin/python3/ultest:function:_ultest_get_nearest_test' on channel 10 (python3-rplugin-host):^@no request handler registered for "/home/farzad/.vim/plugged/vim-ultest/rplugin/python3/ultest:function:_ultest_get_nearest_test"

I didn't create a log, but let me know if that would help and I can try to create one.

To Reproduce
Open a file with sudo and see the errors

Expected behavior
Errors should be handled gracefully and not interfere with file navigation

[rcarriga]

You might need to tell me more info about your setup, how is your config being loaded when you're using sudo? Normally you have to supply -E to sudo to use your own config, which works perfectly fine for me (on Arch as well). Could you also paste the output of stat /tmp/vim-ultest.log?

[farzadmf]

I'm also using sudo -E, but unfortunately, it seems to be not 100% reproducible 🙁

I'll try to see if I can find the steps to reproduce, but don't you think it's better to handle the errors more gracefully so that, in case they happen, they don't interfere with usage like this?

(or maybe I'm stupid and that's what is already happening, and this is coming from something else)

[rcarriga]

Sure, I've added a catch for all errors, please try with the latest commit

[frbaroni]

Part of the spam was two subsequent endtry in handler.vim:

diff --git a/autoload/ultest/handler.vim b/autoload/ultest/handler.vim
index 2885f68..8bdefb5 100644
--- a/autoload/ultest/handler.vim
+++ b/autoload/ultest/handler.vim
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ function! s:Call(func, args) abort
         let s:update_warn_sent += 1
       endif
     endtry
-    endtry
   else

Still not working, and I'm not involving sudo/su

Error: vim-ultest encountered an unknown error on startup, check v:exception                             
no notification handler registered for "/home/usr/dotfiles/vim/plugged/vim-ultest/rplugin/python3/ul
test:function:_ultest_update_positions"                                                                  
Press ENTER or type command to continue      

[seblj]

I have the same issue. An example of when the problem happens is if I open a buffer inside the /usr/local/share/nvim/runtime/syntax folder

[rcarriga]

Yep totally fat fingered that one 😅 Please try the latest commit

[seblj]

It fixes the worst part, but it's still echoing a message Error: vim-ultest remote function not detected, try running :UpdateRemotePlugins on install/update. I have tried using UpdateRemotePlugins several times, but it doesn't stop echoing the message

[rcarriga]

@farzadmf I managed to reproduce and find the issue. The problem was a file permissions error with the default log file when switching between root and your user.

@seblj That seems to be a different issue because it's triggering the old catch, can you check with the latest commit and if it's not fixed open a separate issue with more details?

[seblj]

I thought it fixed that issue at first since I got a new message saying: Error: vim-ultest encountered an unknown error on startup, check v:exception. But I tried to run :UpdateRemotePlugins again, but it now prints the same message as before. I can open a separate issue on this

[farzadmf]

Thank you @rcarriga for the super fast updates

I updated the plugins, and I'll be testing, I hope I don't get the error 🤞 , but if I do, I'll update you for sure

[farzadmf]

Hey @rcarriga

Now I'm facing the same issue as @frbaroni mentioned: I've installed the vim-dirdiff plugin, and I'm opening two directories using nvim +"DirDiff <...dir1...> <...dir2...>", and I see the following error right off the bat:

no notification handler registered for "/home/farzad/.vim/plugged/vimultest/rplugin/python3/ultest:function:_ultest_update_positions"

Didn't include the logs because I thought the error itself might include a clue to a missing except somewhere, but let me know if you need more information and I'll try to gather more info