the LSP server could not download from GitHub

[Reverier-Xu]

Version: 0e3585b

When open a file, it will produce logs:

/usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/lsp/rpc.lua:800: Spawning language server with cmd: `{ ".local/share/nvim/lazy/copilot.lua/copilot/linux-x64/copilot-language-server-1.292.0", "--stdio" }` failed. The language server is either not installed, missing from PATH, or not executable.

2025-03-27 09:54:01.602 [40] [ERROR]: LSP client failed to start (no client ID returned)
[loops]
...

I found the .local/share/nvim/lazy/copilot.lua/copilot/linux-x64/copilot-language-server-1.292.0.zip is just a txt file with one line:

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seems a download error?

[AntoineGS]

Yes the curl command to download the zip file seems to fail for some reason.
I just pushed an attempt at resolving the issue, but I am really not sure if it will work so let me know if it does or not.

[Reverier-Xu]

0da7ebc fails with the same reason, still not working

[Reverier-Xu]

the original curl command seems ok

[AntoineGS]

Very odd, until we figure it out you can just extract the zip file in that same folder and the plugin will pick it up.

[NicolasGB]

Hey, I thought i was having the same issue since i also had the notification saying:
[ERROR]: LSP client failed to start (no client ID returned)

But in the flood of notifications i found this one:

Stating that it could not create the linux-x64 folder. I simply did an mkdir in ~/.local/share/nvim/copilot.lua/copilot/linux-x64

Restarted neovim and everything went well this time:

So maybe the issue is more related to directory creation?

[Reverier-Xu]

@NicolasGB maybe another bug? I have this directory though.

[rawsp33d]

I had this problem and manually creating the linux-x64 directory worked for me too.

[AntoineGS]

I have an idea to resolve the directory issue, but the one reported in this Issue initially is not the same from what I can see.

[Julian]

In my case the directory existed and the .zip file existed but nothing unzipped it, even if I removed it and tried having copilot.lua (presumably?) download it again.

This essentially hung my nvim as above -- but what fixed it here was basically just doing this myself for now, so unzip copilot-language-server-darwin-arm64-1.292.0.zip followed by mv copilot-language-server copilot-language-server-1.292.0 which seems to be the executable name expected.

[TIAcode]

In my case the directory existed and the .zip file existed but nothing unzipped it, even if I removed it and tried having copilot.lua (presumably?) download it again.

This essentially hung my nvim as above -- but what fixed it here was basically just doing this myself for now, so unzip copilot-language-server-darwin-arm64-1.292.0.zip followed by mv copilot-language-server copilot-language-server-1.292.0 which seems to be the executable name expected.

This worked for me as well. Downloaded the zip from https://github.com/github/copilot-language-server-release/releases/download/1.292.0/copilot-language-server-linux-x64-1.292.0.zip

[AntoineGS]

For anyone having an issue with the file manipulation, could you pull the new version (just added a log), add this to your configuration:

    require("copilot").setup {
      ...
      logger = {
        file_log_level = vim.log.levels.TRACE,
      },
      ...

Then replicate the issue and post the copilot_lua.log file generated?
On linux it should be in ~/.local/state/nvim/copilot-lua.log

[saljic-heijmans]

Issue also occurs on LazyVim on windows, downloading the exe renaming it and placing it in the directory fixes the issue, but that's a workaround

[AntoineGS]

Do you have logs? :)
They are in ~\AppaData\Local\ on Windows

[saljic-heijmans]

When i fresh install it i get this using lazyvim package manager

'...nvim-data/lazy/lazy.nvim/lua/lazy/manage/task/plugin.lua:26: Vim:2025-03-27 16:52:59.664 [1] [ERROR]: error starting LSP client: ...les/Neovim/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/lsp/_transport.lua:68: Spawning language server with cmd: { "C:/Users/seal1/AppData/Local/nvim-data/lazy/copilot.lua/copilot/win32-x64/copilot-language-server-1.292.0.exe", "--stdio" } failed. The language server is either not installed, missing from PATH, or not executable.'

i can not find any file named copilot-lua.log in my appdata unfortunately

[AntoineGS]

Did you add the configuration described here?:
#408 (comment)