Hanging on "Roots scanned" in Neovim but not vscode

[jrmoulton]

rust-analyzer ad6810e 2022-06-08 dev

rustc 1.63.0-nightly (b2eed72a6 2022-05-22)

I'm running rust analyzer inside of neovim and I am getting an issue similar to #8161 where rust analyzer is hanging on "Roots Scanned". This happens inside of neovim but it doesn't happen when I open the project inside of VSCode.

This also doesn't happen inside of most of my rust projects. It's happening using the esp-idf-template for an embedded project.
I've gone through the troubleshooting guide but I haven't found any more useful information. Any other tips on how else can I debug what is going on here?

[andoriyu]

Happens on a very small project as well. (well, tokio + axum, but basic otherwise) Are you on M1 mac by any chance? I had no issues on linux with this before.

[jrmoulton]

@andoriyu I am on an M1 mac

[andoriyu]

@andoriyu I am on an M1 mac

If you open RA process in activity monitor you will see which files it's scanning. It's not stuck, it's just very slow.

I had to change RA config to explicitly exclude certain directories for it to stop doing that by adding dirs to rust-analyzer.files.excludeDirs.

Folder in my case was .direnv and was scanning entire nixpkgs repository.

[jrmoulton]

Ahhh yeah that is whats happening. Ok I should be able to figure it out then. Thanks!

[yanshay]

I face the same issues with Neovim and esp-idf projects. Roots scanned never ends. I couldn't figure out how to solve this.
Any solutions?

[SethFalco]

I had to change RA config to explicitly exclude certain directories for it to stop doing that by adding dirs to rust-analyzer.files.excludeDirs.

I had a similar issue while trying to set up development for GNOME Fractal in Visual Studio Code.

Configuring rust-analyzer.files.excludeDirs was the solution for me, which I wrote the following config:

{
  "files.watcherExclude": {
    "**/_build": true,
    "**/.classpath": true,
    "**/.dart_tool": true,
    "**/.factorypath": true,
    "**/.flatpak-builder": true,
    "**/.git/objects/**": true,
    "**/.git/subtree-cache/**": true,
    "**/.idea": true,
    "**/.project": true,
    "**/.scannerwork": true,
    "**/.settings": true,
    "**/.venv": true,
    "**/node_modules": true
  },
  "rust-analyzer.files.excludeDirs": [
    "_build",
    ".dart_tool",
    ".flatpak-builder",
    ".git",
    ".gitlab",
    ".gitlab-ci",
    ".gradle",
    ".idea",
    ".next",
    ".project",
    ".scannerwork",
    ".settings",
    ".venv",
    "archetype-resources",
    "bin",
    "hooks",
    "node_modules",
    "po",
    "screenshots",
    "target"
  ]
}

[GuillaumeLagrange]

Sorry to bother people on this old issue.

How would one identify files that are not excluded but should on linux (i.e the activity monitor from macOS is not available) ?

On a large repo, I am currently experiencing a ~3 seconds freeze in nvim but not in vscode
The only feedback I get is the number/progress of the scans (in my case 1k6+) from enabling debug logging in nvim.

EDIT: I just updated rust-analyzer and it now displays the directory being scanned, and I see nothing unexpected, it's just the repo being huge.

I think it's more a neovim issue than a rust analyzer issue.