[question] vim and language server inside a container

[miquecg]

Hi,

This is a question rather than an issue. I'm using a container as development environment with vim and elixir-ls inside. No init system, just /usr/bin/zsh -l as entrypoint. ALE is the LSP client but linting doesn't occur. However on the host (Debian), same setup works and I can check with ALEInfo that server has been properly initialized:

(executable check - success) /home/devel/elixir-ls/rel/language_server.sh
(started) ['zsh', '-c', '/home/devel/elixir-ls/rel/language_server.sh']

Probably this means the language server is not able to spawn its own instances when there is no init process. Is this correct?

[axelson]

I am not sure what would happen in that case, are you getting specific error messages?

[miquecg]

No errors whatsoever to my knowledge, just the absence of the (started) ... line when running inside the container.

[miquecg]

Oh, I've just remembered something. I checked executing the very same command (zsh -c ...) from container shell and server started fine. So the problem cannot be the lack of an init process.

Since this is just a question I will close the issue and open a new one with the exact problem when I test it again.

[sanjibukai]

Hello,
I had also an issue with this version when working with containers.
And in my case I wasn't using the bash shell within the container while it's somehow a dependency for the launching script.
And since you mentioned zsh, your problem might be related.
Take a look here.

[axelson]

@miquecg specifically it appears that if you do not have bash installed on the container then ElixirLS will fail to start. Another workaround is removing asdf from the the container.

[axelson]

@miquecg Are you able to test #190 to see if if works for your setup? That would be very helpful if so!

[miquecg]

@axelson It works fine on my Debian box, running vim on a Zsh shell and using asdf to manage Erlang/Elixir installations. Bash is also installed on the system.

I don't have yet a fully configured image for development so I mostly give up on using containers by now.

[axelson]

Thanks for trying out the change!