How to get logs for pyright-langserver crash?

[damca]

The pyright server connects for a few seconds, provides accurate intellisense and then dies. I would like to troubleshoot the crash, but don't know how to find the logs. My overall goal is to get a pyright server within a docker container to communicate with Neovim on the host.

Setup:

• Running docker exec -i conda /bin/bash --login -c 'pyright-langserver --stdio' from host starts a usual server. Note that if -it is passed then the Neovim side crashes with the error the input device is not a TTY (as found in ~/.local/state/nvim/lsp.log).
• I made an executable file with the above line called docker_conda_pyright. And start the language server with the following lua function:

start_docker_pyright = function()
  local client = vim.lsp.start_client {
    cmd = { [[docker_conda_pyright]] },
  }
  local bufnr = vim.api.nvim_get_current_buf()
  vim.lsp.buf_attach_client(bufnr, client)
end

When calling start_docker_pyright on a file, the language server seems to work for ~5 seconds and then crashes. Any thoughts on how to best proceed troubleshooting this?

[jlucier]

@damca did you even get this working? I've been trying off and on to accomplish the same thing to no avail. It's as if it processes the buffer and then "shuts down" the server.

[rchiodo]

If Pyright is crashing, you can run it from the command line usually to reproduce the crash. Then you'd be able to just debug the pyright code.

[jlucier]

I'm not seeing anything of interest coming through on stderr, which is really the only thing we've got access to since stdio is being used for LSP communication with neovim.

I'm not actually convinced it's crashing, it seems like maybe it's just exiting as soon as it finishing processing the buffer neovim is requesting that it process. Is it possible that pyright-langserver, when run this way, might act that way? Or must I be doing something wrong?

[rchiodo]

If you start Pyright as a language server (meaning the server bundle), it should stay running. The only thing that would close it would be a crash or sending a shutdown message.