context loading failed: no go files to analyze

[rmilejcz]

I have regularly run golangci-lint run from the root of my directory without issue for the last several weeks. Today, after successfully running golangci-lint run, I fixed all the reported issues and then ran the command in the same terminal but I got the output:

ERRO Running error: context loading failed: no go files to analyze

even though nothing seems to have changed. The project structure is basically 60 or so folders, each having a main.go, a main_test.go and two auto generated files which are ignored by golangci-lint. If I specify a package it lints without issue e.g.:

golangci-lint run ActivityLog

runs the linter on that package without any error.

Version of golangci-lint

$ golangci-lint --version
golangci-lint has version 1.21.0 built from 645e794 on 2019-10-15T18:15:04Z

Config file

$ cat .golangci.yml
run:
  concurrency: 4
  deadline: 2m
  issues-exit-code: 1
  tests: true

output:
  format: colored-line-number
  print-issued-lines: true
  print-linter-name: true

linter-settings:
  errcheck:
    check-type-assertions: true
    check-blank: true

  govet:
    check-shadowing: true
    settings:
      printf:
        funcs:
          - (github.com/golangci/golangci-lint/pkg/logutils.Log).Infof
          - (github.com/golangci/golangci-lint/pkg/logutils.Log).Warnf
          - (github.com/golangci/golangci-lint/pkg/logutils.Log).Errorf
          - (github.com/golangci/golangci-lint/pkg/logutils.Log).Fatalf
  golint:
    min-confidence: 0.8

  gofmt:
    simplify: true

  goimports:
    local-prefixes: kalos-core

  gocyclo:
    min-complexity: 20

  maligned:
    suggest-new: true

  goconst:
    min-len: 3
    min-occurrences: 3

  misspell:
    locale: US
    ignore-words:
      - supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

  lll:
    line-length: 120
    tab-width: 2

  unused:
    check-exported: false

  unparam:
    check-exported: false

  prealloc:
    simple: true
    range-loops: true
    for-loops: false

  gocritic:
    enabled-checks:
      - appendAssign
      - argOrder
      - assignOp
      - badCond
      - boolExprSimplify
      - builtinShadow
      - captLocal
      - caseOrder
      - commendOutCode
      - commentFormatting
      - commentedOutImport
      - defaultCaseOrder
      - deprecatedComment
      - docStub
      - dupArg
      - dupBranchBody
      - dupCase
      - dupSubExpr
      - elseif
      - emptyFallthrough
      - emptyStringTest
      - equalFold
      - exitAfterDefer
      - flagDeref
      - flagName
      - hexLiteral
      - hugeParam
      - ifElseChain
      - importShadow
      - indexAlloc
      - initClause
      - methodExprCall
      - nestingReduce
      - nilValReturn
      - octalLiteral
      - offBy1
      - paramTypeCombine
      - ptrToRefParam
      - rangeExprCopy
      - rangeValCopy
      - regexpMust
      - singleCaseSwitch
      - sloppyLen
      - sloppyReassign
      - stringXbytes
      - switchTrue
      - typeAssertChain
      - typeSwitchVar
      - typeUnparen
      - underef
      - unlabelStmt
      - unlambda
      - unnecessaryBlock
      - unslice
      - valSwap
      - weakCond
      - wrapperFunc
      - yodaStyleExpr

    disabled-checks:
      - codegenComment
      - unnamedResult

linters:
  enable:
    - bodyclose
    - megacheck
    - govet
    - errcheck
    - staticcheck
    - unused
    - gosimple
    - structcheck
    - varcheck
    - ineffassign
    - deadcode
    - typecheck
    - gosec
    - interfacer
    - unconvert
    - goconst
    - gocyclo
    - goimports
    - maligned
    - misspell
    - unparam
    - scopelint
    - gocritic
    - gochecknoinits
  disable:
    - dupl
    - lll
    - stylecheck

Go environment

$ go version && go env
go version go1.13.1 darwin/amd64
GO111MODULE="on"
GOARCH="amd64"
GOBIN="/Users/robertmilejczak/Documents/Projects/bin"
GOCACHE="/Users/robertmilejczak/Library/Caches/go-build"
GOENV="/Users/robertmilejczak/Library/Application Support/go/env"
GOEXE=""
GOFLAGS=""
GOHOSTARCH="amd64"
GOHOSTOS="darwin"
GONOPROXY=""
GONOSUMDB=""
GOOS="darwin"
GOPATH="/Users/robertmilejczak/Documents/Projects"
GOPRIVATE=""
GOPROXY="https://proxy.golang.org,direct"
GOROOT="/usr/local/Cellar/go/1.13.1/libexec"
GOSUMDB="sum.golang.org"
GOTMPDIR=""
GOTOOLDIR="/usr/local/Cellar/go/1.13.1/libexec/pkg/tool/darwin_amd64"
GCCGO="gccgo"
AR="ar"
CC="clang"
CXX="clang++"
CGO_ENABLED="1"
GOMOD="/Users/robertmilejczak/Documents/Projects/src/github.com/rmilejcz/kalos-core/go.mod"
CGO_CFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_CPPFLAGS=""
CGO_CXXFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_FFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_LDFLAGS="-g -O2"
PKG_CONFIG="pkg-config"
GOGCCFLAGS="-fPIC -m64 -pthread -fno-caret-diagnostics -Qunused-arguments -fmessage-length=0 -fdebug-prefix-map=/var/folders/kv/npdslxvd0ml09ntv_0rsmqcr0000gn/T/go-build078154239=/tmp/go-build -gno-record-gcc-switches -fno-common"

Verbose output of running

$ golangci-lint run -v
INFO [config_reader] Config search paths: [./ /Users/robertmilejczak/Documents/Projects/src/github.com/rmilejcz/kalos-core/server /Users/robertmilejczak/Documents/Projects/src/github.com/rmilejcz/kalos-core /Users/robertmilejczak/Documents/Projects/src/github.com/rmilejcz /Users/robertmilejczak/Documents/Projects/src/github.com /Users/robertmilejczak/Documents/Projects/src /Users/robertmilejczak/Documents/Projects /Users/robertmilejczak/Documents /Users/robertmilejczak /Users /] 
INFO [config_reader] Used config file ../.golangci.yml 
INFO [lintersdb] Active 23 linters: [bodyclose deadcode errcheck gochecknoinits goconst gocritic gocyclo goimports gosec gosimple govet ineffassign interfacer maligned misspell scopelint staticcheck structcheck typecheck unconvert unparam unused varcheck] 
INFO [loader] Go packages loading at mode 575 (types_sizes|deps|imports|name|compiled_files|exports_file|files) took 1.436796726s 
ERRO Running error: context loading failed: no go files to analyze 
INFO Memory: 16 samples, avg is 68.9MB, max is 68.9MB 
INFO Execution took 1.451511334s

[rmilejcz]

Disregard, for those getting a similar error message make sure you can build your project. I was able to figure out the issue by running

go test -v ./...

If possible, the error message context loading failed: no go files to analyze should be improved, especially when specifying verbose ouput.

[jirfag]

thank you, I think we need to fix error message

[alejandro-delgado-garcia]

Hi, I'm having the same issue even in latest version 1.21.0, any ideas what could be the issue? Thanks.

[rmilejcz]

The only advice I could give is to make sure your code is error free, run go build or go test to make sure that everything works as expected

[dackroyd]

This is tripping up our code formatting, as we've moved that to GolangCI Lint (running gofmt and goimports) rather than running those tools using locally installed versions. This is to ensure that a consistent toolset is used across all developers machines.

Goimports would normally clean up any import paths that don't exist (e.g. from code that has been removed), however when running in GolangCI Lint, this gives the no go files to analyze error instead

[alejandro-delgado-garcia]

We had to downgrade to 1.17 to make it to work and about goimports we had to disable it and use it standalone without golangci lint. Maybe we are doing something wrong but at least we found a way. I think the linter doesn't play nice with a multi go modules repository in our case, as we are using a mono repository with multiple go modules in it one per each service

[fdcds]

This issue has several duplicates: #855, #865, #870, #916.