LSP does not work with LSP installed inside Distrobox

[ydalton]

Summary

Hi, and thank you for this wonderful editor! ✨

I found a problem with getting LSP to work. I don't get any LSP functionality, even though hx --health reports a working LSP config. For context, I install my LSPs in a distrobox container instead of my host, then export the binaries in my ~/.local/bin directory:

pino@overbook-air:/tmp/cargotest/src$ hx --health rust
Configured language servers:
  ✓ rust-analyzer: /home/pino/.local/bin/rust-analyzer
Configured debug adapter: lldb-vscode
Binary for debug adapter: /home/pino/.local/bin/lldb-vscode
Highlight queries: ✓
Textobject queries: ✓
Indent queries: ✓

This appears to be a bug because Emacs didn't have any problems with this arrangement, and I haven't tried LSP in Neovim at all so I don't if that works. Also, installing Helix in the distrobox and running it there does get LSP working, but I don't think it's an ideal solution. For the time being that is what I will do.

Running hx --health rust from the distrobox:

pino@my-distrobox:~$ hx --health rust
Configured language servers:
  ✓ rust-analyzer: /usr/bin/rust-analyzer
Configured debug adapter: lldb-vscode
Binary for debug adapter: /usr/bin/lldb-vscode
Highlight queries: ✓
Textobject queries: ✓
Indent queries: ✓

Reproduction Steps

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Helix log

No response

Platform

Linux

Terminal Emulator

kgx (GNOME Console)

Installation Method

dnf

Helix Version

helix 23.10 (f6021dd)

[pascalkuthe]

Have you tried running rust-analyzer --help directly to figure out if it's possible to invoke this binary out side of distrobox?

Also please provide a log file and use the latest release when reporting a bug

[ydalton]

rust-analyzer does indeed work...

pino@overbook-air:~$ rust-analyzer --help
rust-analyzer
  LSP server for the Rust programming language.

  Subcommands and their flags do not provide any stability guarantees and may be removed or
  changed without notice. Top-level flags that are not marked as [Unstable] provide
  backwards-compatibility and may be relied on.
...

Re logfile, sorry I did not provide it before. I will attach it here. A cursory glance at it shows that at least clangd (another LSP I tested) is being initialized, but nothing comes of it.
helix.log

[ydalton]

Okay, I tried configuring LSP with Neovim, and it has the same issue, so it's not specific to Helix. So I'll close the discussion.