Job is dead error comes up every launch

[Kyle-Thompson]

Every time I launch neovim I'm given the following error [ncm2_core@yarp] Job is dead. cmd=['python3', '-u', '/.../pythonx/yarp.py', '/tmp/nvimL5FRdr/0', 2, 'ncm2_core']. What can I do about this?

[Kyle-Thompson]

This was due to me not having installed neovim with pip. I had done so with pip3 explicitly but apparently installing with pip was needed. I'm an idiot.

[megalithic]

@Kyle-Thompson: odd, i have neovim installed via pip and pip3, and still getting this. Any details of exactly what you did?

[viniarck]

@megalithic try removing completely from your system with pip3 uninstall neovim and sudo pip3 uninstall neovim. Upgrade to the latest version, and install user only, pip3 install neovim --user, perform a :checkhealth after starting neovim.

[hiphamster]

I'm having a similar error. I have followed suggestion to completely uninstall and reinstall neovim, I'm on mac, tried using macports as well as pyenv / virtualenv, but the error persists.

[thefallenidealist]

I am having same error on FreeBSD. Uninstalling all pip2 neovim/pynvim modules and reinstalling all pip3 modules didn't help. But on my system, root's nvim works as expected. user:

## Python 2 provider (optional)
  - INFO: `g:python_host_prog` is not set.  Searching for python2 in the environment.
  - INFO: Executable: /usr/local/bin/python2
  - INFO: Python version: 2.7.15
  - INFO: pynvim version: 0.3.2
  - OK: Latest pynvim is installed.

## Python 3 provider (optional)
  - INFO: Using: g:python3_host_prog = "/usr/local/bin/python3"
  - INFO: Executable: /usr/local/bin/python3
  - INFO: Python version: 3.6.8
  - INFO: pynvim version: 0.3.2
  - OK: Latest pynvim is installed.

root:

## Python 2 provider (optional)
- WARNING: No Python executable found that can `import neovim`. Using the first available executable for diagnostics.
- ERROR: Python provider error:
  - ADVICE:
    - provider/pythonx: Could not load Python 2:
        /usr/local/bin/python2 does not have the "neovim" module. :help provider-python
        /usr/local/bin/python2.7 does not have the "neovim" module. :help provider-python
        python2.6 not found in search path or not executable.
        /usr/local/bin/python does not have the "neovim" module. :help provider-python
- INFO: Executable: Not found

## Python 3 provider (optional)
- INFO: Using: g:python3_host_prog = "/usr/local/bin/python3"
- INFO: Executable: /usr/local/bin/python3
- INFO: Python version: 3.6.8
- INFO: pynvim version: 0.3.1 (outdated; from ~/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/neovim)
- WARNING: Latest pynvim is NOT installed: 0.3.2

Both user and root are using the same config (ln -s /home/user/... /root/...) but python modules are in separate dirs (~/.local).

[arizonatribe]

Honestly why does it even matter to install through Pip vs through Homebrew? That smells like brittle code to me.

[roxma]

@thefallenidealist The job is dead message prints the full command startting the job. You could execute the job manually in another terminal and see how it goes.

[hiphamster]

It doesn't exactly. Most of the command doesn't fit (gets truncated), and I don't see it when i enable logging.

[roxma]

@hiphamster Unfortunately It's hard to debug in this case.

This is different issue than the one posted by Kyle-Thompson, you should open a new issue. And maybe a docker image for reproducing the issue, since there's no enough debugging information from your describtion.

[thefallenidealist]

@thefallenidealist The job is dead message prints the full command startting the job. You could execute the job manually in another terminal and see how it goes.

Tried that a few days ago and that worked. But not inside nvim. Anyway, rebooted machine and works as expected. Updated root's pynvim and plugins and it is still working. I'll try tomorrow on Win10 machine, I think there were also same error messages.

[BinJu]

I tried this with the nvim installed by brew on Mac OSX. The command I tried the so the debug log(I linked vim to nvim):

vim -V9myVim.log

I can see the exact error is the module neovim does not exist. I tried install the module manually, it got failed due to the ssl issue. As some one suggested I ran the command to reinstall python:

brew reinstall python

then

sudo pip3 install --upgrade neovim

after that reopen nvim, the error is gone. Hope this could help!

[casusbelli]

brew reinstall python

then

sudo pip3 install --upgrade neovim

after that reopen nvim, the error is gone. Hope this could help!

Seems the python re-install is the key here. I just ran the brew reinstall command and afterwards tried a:

brew upgrade nvim

the latter did not do any changes because nvim was up to date. But still the issue is gone for me now, the only perceivable change being the python reinstallation.

[HLevering]

I had the same issue and followed the suggestion of @roxma . Executing the command directly in terminal showed: ... ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'jedi' ... So I did a pip install jedi and it worked. Maybe this is helpful to others

[nbyouk]

After installing nvim via pip as per the comments above, I was still getting the error. I had to specify the path to my python installation in ~/.config/nvim/init.vim:

let g:python3_host_prog = '/path/to/bin/python3' let g:python_host_prog='/path/to/bin/python2'

This solved the issue, hope it helps.

[antmachine]

I had same issue. Checking which pythons were executable

which python2
=> /usr/local/bin/python2
which python3
=>  /usr/bin/python3

It looks like python3 was pointing to MacOS python. After running brew reinstall python I got the correct path and issue resolved.

which python3
=> /usr/local/bin/python3

[rfaridi]

In my arch linux system, all I had to do is install/update the python-neovim package. No "pip install" was required.

[dobrydev]

I tried this with the nvim installed by brew on Mac OSX. The command I tried the so the debug log(I linked vim to nvim):

vim -V9myVim.log

I can see the exact error is the module neovim does not exist. I tried install the module manually, it got failed due to the ssl issue. As some one suggested I ran the command to reinstall python:

brew reinstall python

then

sudo pip3 install --upgrade neovim

after that reopen nvim, the error is gone. Hope this could help!

Work for me. Thanks!!

[ademarj]

@Esternome tks

brew reinstall python && sudo pip3 install --upgrade neovim

It's was enough 👍

[c1au6i0]

In my case reinstalling python (in CentOs), pointing to the right python3, or upgrading neovim did not solve the problem. The pythonx folder contains only the yarp.py and no neovim.api. I installed neovim with miniconda.

[cassiotbatista]

In my arch linux system, all I had to do is install/update the python-neovim package. No "pip install" was required.

Same for me: sudo apt-get install python3-neovim did the job :)

[kswelder]

@megalithic try removing completely from your system with pip3 uninstall neovim and sudo pip3 uninstall neovim. Upgrade to the latest version, and install user only, pip3 install neovim --user, perform a :checkhealth after starting neovim.

thx, solve my problem in Windows. I tryng install ncm2 plugin I was not successful because this conflict, but I reinstalled neovim with pip solve my problem.