Module 'vim.uri' not found error at neovim 0.5 startup

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Hi everyone,

I’ve been trying to prepare my config for neovim 0.5 and all the good things that come with it but I find myself stuck.

Some plugins generate the following error at startup and don’t load:

E5108: Error executing lua vim.lua:291: module 'vim.uri' not found:

It points to this line in vim.lua:

elseif require('vim.uri')[key] ~= nil then
  -- Expose all `vim.uri` functions on the `vim` module.
  t[key] = require('vim.uri')[key]
  return t[key]

I don’t read Lua super well but it seems that if it can’t find anything named vim.uri then it should just move on?

This happens with vim-airline and nvim-lspconfig.

For example, with the following init.lua:

local cmd = vim.cmd

cmd "call plug#begin('~/.vim/plugged')"
cmd "Plug 'neovim/nvim-lspconfig'"
cmd "call plug#end()"

after running :PlugInstall I get

Error detected while processing /Users/<my-user-name>/.vim/plugged/nvim-lspconfig/plugin/lspconfig.vim:                                                                                                                                                              
line   11:
E5108: Error executing lua vim.lua:291: module 'vim.uri' not found:
        no field package.preload['vim.uri']
        no file './vim/uri.lua'
        [...]

The only other place I’ve seen the problem mentioned is here but the resolution was “Nvm. I ended up building and installing the current HEAD from source.”. This doesn’t help me because I did built neovim from source (specifically from 095f5da79cb8f108b67824039952c6b225cb3dac).

That comment also mentioned that their install was probably wrong, which is likely my case as well.

Starting neovim with -u NONE and running :lua require('vim.uri') predictably triggers

E5108: Error executing lua [string ":lua"]:1: module 'vim.uri' not found:
        no field package.preload['vim.uri']
        no file './vim/uri.lua'
        [...]

Am I somehow missing a file?

I appreciate any help/pointers :slight_smile:

2

How did you install neovim from source? Did you run make clean && make distclean && make && sudo make install?

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Ah, good point. I had not. I was just running make and had never run make clean or make distclean. Given that I’d previously built a nightly from 6 months ago, I can see how that was a problem.

However, I just ran make clean && make distclean && make and am looking at neovim/build/bin/nvim. It has the same errors I described in the first post.

I’ve been trying to avoid running make install and basically just created an alias so that vi is neovim/build/bin/nvim, so I can come back to 0.4 easily if I need to. Maybe that’s creating problems. I’m going to try installing it using a different CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX as described here instead.

4

Ha.

I ran make install and now it works.
It seems that just running make and using neovim/build/bin/nvim was not a good idea.

Thanks a lot for your quick response @mjlbach !

5

You were most likely missing 0.5 runtime. You could have aliased like

alias vi="VIMRUNTIME={path to source}/runtime {path to source}/build/bin/nvim"
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I’m running into the same issue. After updating a nightly version with brew.
Somehow the $VIMRUNTIME is still linked to the old HEAD version.

vim is aliased to neovim (> alias vim = nvim)

NVIM v0.5.0-dev+f2df01900
Build type: Release
LuaJIT 2.1.0-beta3
Compilation: /usr/bin/clang -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=1 -DNDEBUG -Wall -Wextra
 -pedantic -Wno-unused-parameter -Wstrict-prototypes -std=gnu99 -Wshadow -Wconversion -W
missing-prototypes -Wimplicit-fallthrough -Wvla -fstack-protector-strong -fno-common -fd
iagnostics-color=auto -DINCLUDE_GENERATED_DECLARATIONS -D_GNU_SOURCE -DNVIM_MSGPACK_HAS_
FLOAT32 -DNVIM_UNIBI_HAS_VAR_FROM -DMIN_LOG_LEVEL=3 -I/tmp/neovim-20210402-78352-1xo1b0n
/build/config -I/tmp/neovim-20210402-78352-1xo1b0n/src -I/usr/local/include -I/tmp/neovi
m-20210402-78352-1xo1b0n/deps-build/include -I/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/M
acOSX11.1.sdk/usr/include -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/tmp/neovim-20210402-78352-
1xo1b0n/build/src/nvim/auto -I/tmp/neovim-20210402-78352-1xo1b0n/build/include
Compiled by MateoPanadero@Mathijs.multi.box

Features: +acl +iconv +tui
See ":help feature-compile"

   system vimrc file: "$VIM/sysinit.vim"
  fall-back for $VIM: "/usr/local/Cellar/neovim/HEAD-f2df019/share/nvim"

:checkhealth
E5009: Invalid $VIMRUNTIME: /usr/local/Cellar/neovim/HEAD-5d5e018/share/nvim/runtime