Cannot delete plugin: cache_loader error

[itaranto]

Hey everyone,

I just realized I cannot delete any plugin without having this error on startup:

Error detected while processing /home/ignacio/.config/nvim/init.lua:
Failed to load `plugins.formatter`

...local/share/nvim/lazy/lazy.nvim/lua/lazy/core/plugin.lua:410: module 'plugins.formatter' not found:
^Ino field package.preload['plugins.formatter']
cache_loader: module plugins.formatter not found
cache_loader_lib: module plugins.formatter not found
^Ino file './plugins/formatter.lua'
^Ino file '/usr/share/luajit-2.1/plugins/formatter.lua'
^Ino file '/usr/local/share/lua/5.1/plugins/formatter.lua'
^Ino file '/usr/local/share/lua/5.1/plugins/formatter/init.lua'
^Ino file '/usr/share/lua/5.1/plugins/formatter.lua'
^Ino file '/usr/share/lua/5.1/plugins/formatter/init.lua'
^Ino file './plugins/formatter.so'
^Ino file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/plugins/formatter.so'
^Ino file '/usr/lib/lua/5.1/plugins/formatter.so'
^Ino file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/loadall.so'
^Ino file './plugins.so'
^Ino file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/plugins.so'
^Ino file '/usr/lib/lua/5.1/plugins.so'
^Ino file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/loadall.so'

# stacktrace:
  - ~/.config/nvim/init.lua:18

This is my Neovim's config directory structure:

.
├── after
│   ├── ftplugin
│   └── queries
│       └── python
└── lua
    ├── core
    ├── neovide
    └── plugins

All I did was: git rm lua/plugins/formatter.lua.

I tried deleting ~/.cache/nvim/ without success.

Clearly lazy.nvim is caching this information somewhere in persistent storage (i.e. files), otherwise the issue wouldn't persist between runs.

I'm basically clueless with this, any hint?

[folke]

lazy is not caching plugin modules. What's at ~/.config/nvim/init.lua:18?

[dpetka2001]

Just rm lua/plugins/formatter.lua. git rm doesn't remove the file from the filesystem. I cloned your repo and no errors show up. I am even able to delete plugins without any errors. You must have some kind of error locally in your configuration.

[itaranto]

I'm pretty sure git rm removes the file from the filesystem (the file is still on Git's database of course):

Anyway, for the sake of completion, rm triggers the issue as well.

[itaranto]

It's weird because I'm seeing this issue both in my work laptop and my personal desktop (both running Arch Linux).

[itaranto]

Oh, I'm such a f*ing idiot, you guys are probably gonna kill me 😄

I totally forgot that I recently switched to managing my dotfiles via a symlink manager 🤦‍♂️

While ~/.dotfiles/config/nvim/lua/plugins/formatter.lua got deleted, the symlink ~/.config/nvim/lua/plugins/formatter.lua was still there.

[itaranto]

I'm sorry for wasting your time.