Troubleshooting#
Server log#
clojure-lsp logs most of what is doing to a file which location could be found:
- on
:log-path
if specified in your clojure-lsp config, for example:{:log-path "/tmp/clojure-lsp.out"}
- Auto generated every server start on
/tmp/clojure-lsp.<TIMESTAMP>.out
or/var/folders/...
for MacOS.
Emacs users
You can open server logs in a buffer withM-x
lsp-clojure-server-log
.
Client<->Server log#
All LSP clients should provide a way to get the jsonrpc logs between client and server, this helps debug the requests and responses content and time.
Check below how to get the logs for most used clients:
An alternative is to pass --trace-level verbose
to clojure-lsp during process start and clojure-lsp will log the communication to the server-log.
Server is not initializing#
Make sure you have the most recent version of clojure-lsp
Check if the executable is working running it from the command line, it should start up and start reading from stdin.
Type Content-Length: 51\n\n{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"foo","id":1,"params":{}}
. After a few moments you should get something like:
$ ./clojure-lsp
Content-Length: 51
{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"foo","id":1,"params":{}}
Content-Length: 101
{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"error":{"code":-32601,"message":"Method not found","data":{"method":"foo"}}}
If that is ok, clojure-lsp logs to /tmp/clojure-lsp.*.out
, so watch that file and start your editor.
LSP Clients also generally have a way to trace server interactions. Turn that on and attach both server and client logs to an issue if it's not obvious what's going on.
Vim users
For example, if you are using neovim with CoC, first ensure thattrace.server
is set to verbose
in your coc-settings.json
file,
e.g.,
"languageserver": {
"clojure-lsp": {
"command": "clojure-lsp",
"filetypes": ["clojure"],
"disableDiagnostics": false,
"rootPatterns": ["deps.edn", "project.clj"],
"additionalSchemes": ["jar", "zipfile"],
"trace.server": "verbose",
"initializationOptions": {
"project-specs": [{
"project-path": "deps.edn",
"classpath-cmd": ["clj", "-Spath"]
}],
"use-metadata-for-privacy?": true,
}
}
}
Then, once vim has loaded (and clojure-lsp has initialised), you can
issue this command:
:CocCommand workspace.showOutput
This will show the JSON request/response bodies that go between vim
and clojure-lsp. Please capture that information if you need help in
tracking down the problem you are experiencing (either by reporting
github issues, or talking with someone in Slack/Discord or
whatever...)
Some features are not working#
clojure-lsp uses clj-kondo to analyze the classpath during server initialize for most features work, so make sure you don't see any "Error while looking up classpath..." on clojure-lsp log file.
Please note that clojure-lsp
comes bundled with clj-kondo
, so you do not have to install it separately.
For more information, check the Classpath scan settings section.
Classpath scan error#
By default clojure-lsp knows how to scan most common clojure projects using the following rules:
- If the project root has a
project.clj
file, it'll runlein classpath
to get the classpath. - If the project root has a
deps.edn
file, it'll runclojure -Spath
to get the classpath. - If the project root has a
build.boot
file, it'll runboot show --fake-classpath
to get the classpath. - If the project root has a
shadow-cljs.edn
file, it'll runnpx shadow-cljs classpath
to get the classpath.
If your project doesn't follow the above rules or you need a custom command to get the classpath you need to configure the project-specs
clojure-lsp setting, for more details check the settings section.
Folders not being analyzed/linted#
By default clojure-lsp get source-paths from classpath, for more details check settings section.
-
If the definition lives under a different source dir, you can define
source-aliases
orsource-paths
setting as mentioned on settings section. -
It is also important to get your
project-root
correct in your client otherwise the source paths will not be found, check the project-root via your LSP client. -
If you are using
deps
and using a:local/root
dependency to reference another project, i.e.,
{:deps {foo.bar/baz {:local/root "/path/to/foo/project/containing/a/deps.edn"}}}
- and you are finding that
gotoDefinition
isn't working when attempting to jump to the namespace in the referenced project, then it could be that your~/.config/clojure-lsp/config.edn
(or legacy~/.lsp/config.edn
) has a source paths entry, i.e.,:source-paths ["src" "test"]
. This will prevent the lookup from working, as it restricts clojure-lsp to only scan those folders in the current project for sources, and not the other project referenced via the:local/root
deps entry. It can be fixed by removing the:source-paths
from the config (as clojure-lsp has good defaults anyway). If you do require more specific source paths, then those can be added at the project level.
Wrong diagnostics/lint#
- clojure-lsp use clj-kondo to lint and cache in a
.clj-kondo/.cache
dir, try to remove that folder if you think it's not linting correctly - clojure-lsp persist the external jars analysis in a
.lsp/.cache/
folder, if you have issues with some specific feature, try to remove that dir and restart the server. - If you have issues with macros, double check your clj-kondo config.
Missing Add require...
on code actions when using CoC and (neo)vim#
If you find, when executing the command
(coc-codeaction-line)
(or (coc-codeaction-selected)
or
(coc-codeaction-cursor)
), that you aren't getting back
all of the code actions you might expect, please ensure that you have,
in your coc-settings.json
the line disableDiagnostics
set to
false
or better yet, don't have the line there at all :-)
MacOS#
In some version of MacOS, Apple restrict the binary to run, to fix that run: xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /path/to/clojure-lsp