Can't run linter goanalysis_metalinter: failed prerequisites

[nono]

Sometimes, when running golangci-lint on https://github.com/cozy/cozy-stack, I have a warning about failed_prerequisites:

WARN [runner] Can't run linter goanalysis_metalinter: fact_purity: failed prerequisites: [email protected]/cozy/cozy-stack/model/instance/lifecycle [github.com/cozy/cozy-stack/model/app.test]

• Yes, I'm using a binary release within 2 latest major releases. Only such installations are supported.
• Yes, I've searched similar issues on GitHub and didn't find any.
• Yes, I've included all information below (version, config, etc).

Please include the following information:

Version of golangci-lint

$ golangci-lint --version
golangci-lint has version 1.21.0 built from 645e794 on 2019-10-15T18:16:56Z

Config file

$ cat .golangci.yml
cat: .golangci.yml: No such file or directory

Go environment

$ go version && go env
go version go1.13.1 linux/amd64
GO111MODULE=""
GOARCH="amd64"
GOBIN=""
GOCACHE="/home/nono/.cache/go-build"
GOENV="/home/nono/.config/go/env"
GOEXE=""
GOFLAGS=""
GOHOSTARCH="amd64"
GOHOSTOS="linux"
GONOPROXY=""
GONOSUMDB=""
GOOS="linux"
GOPATH="/home/nono/go"
GOPRIVATE=""
GOPROXY="https://proxy.golang.org,direct"
GOROOT="/nix/store/2kzdq7gyxz9jqfqcrp97z2y03vbw4glc-go-1.13.1/share/go"
GOSUMDB="sum.golang.org"
GOTMPDIR=""
GOTOOLDIR="/nix/store/2kzdq7gyxz9jqfqcrp97z2y03vbw4glc-go-1.13.1/share/go/pkg/tool/linux_amd64"
GCCGO="gccgo"
AR="ar"
CC="/nix/store/7hzmz83nv8khpwsk858yaac7y3idh0a7-gcc-wrapper-8.3.0/bin/cc"
CXX="g++"
CGO_ENABLED="1"
GOMOD="/home/nono/cc/stack/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 -fmessage-length=0 -fdebug-prefix-map=/tmp/go-build302705204=/tmp/go-build -gno-record-gcc-switches"

Verbose output of running

$ golangci-lint run -v
INFO [config_reader] Config search paths: [./ /home/nono/cc/stack /home/nono/cc /home/nono /home /] 
INFO [lintersdb] Active 10 linters: [deadcode errcheck gosimple govet ineffassign staticcheck structcheck typecheck unused varcheck] 
INFO [loader] Go packages loading at mode 575 (exports_file|types_sizes|compiled_files|deps|files|imports|name) took 2.691690133s 
INFO [runner/filename_unadjuster] Pre-built 0 adjustments in 70.353413ms 
INFO [runner/unused/goanalysis] analyzers took 5.857582585s with top 10 stages: buildssa: 4.867487779s, U1000: 990.094806ms 
INFO [runner/goanalysis_metalinter/goanalysis] analyzers took 9.763996494s with top 10 stages: buildssa: 4.693446351s, ineffassign: 503.987592ms, vrp: 405.948511ms, inspect: 367.360506ms, varcheck: 167.809469ms, SA4018: 166.777714ms, isgenerated: 163.478578ms, deadcode: 160.6481ms, errcheck: 147.053834ms, structcheck: 142.659624ms 
WARN [runner] Can't run linter goanalysis_metalinter: ctrlflow: failed prerequisites: [email protected]/cozy/cozy-stack/web/accounts [github.com/cozy/cozy-stack/web/middlewares.test] 
INFO [runner] processing took 4.732µs with stages: max_same_issues: 1.074µs, skip_dirs: 500ns, cgo: 493ns, nolint: 373ns, filename_unadjuster: 361ns, max_from_linter: 303ns, exclude: 226ns, skip_files: 201ns, path_prettifier: 200ns, uniq_by_line: 170ns, identifier_marker: 154ns, max_per_file_from_linter: 140ns, diff: 138ns, path_shortener: 134ns, autogenerated_exclude: 89ns, source_code: 89ns, exclude-rules: 87ns 
INFO [runner] linters took 3.157498783s with stages: unused: 1.664301241s, goanalysis_metalinter: 1.493144531s 
INFO File cache stats: 0 entries of total size 0B 
INFO Memory: 60 samples, avg is 407.5MB, max is 1076.4MB 
INFO Execution took 5.924849209s

[dixonwille]

I feel like this is related #824

[amber-zhang]

Hi I met same problem.

$ golangci-lint run -v main.go
INFO [config_reader] Config search paths: [./ /home/ibmadmin/github.ibm.com/spectrum-virtualize-exporter /home/ibmadmin/github.ibm.com /home/ibmadmin /home /] 
INFO [config_reader] Used config file .golangci.yml 
INFO [lintersdb] Active 30 linters: [deadcode depguard dogsled dupl errcheck funlen gochecknoinits goconst gocritic gocyclo gofmt goimports golint gosec gosimple govet ineffassign interfacer lll misspell nakedret scopelint staticcheck structcheck stylecheck typecheck unconvert unparam varcheck whitespace] 
INFO [loader] Go packages loading at mode 575 (name|types_sizes|deps|exports_file|files|imports|compiled_files) took 322.014245ms 
INFO [runner/filename_unadjuster] Pre-built 0 adjustments in 671.191µs 
INFO [runner/goanalysis_metalinter/goanalysis] analyzers took 2.392766ms with top 10 stages: fact_deprecated: 458.401µs, buildssa: 114.037µs, inspect: 112.347µs, printf: 54.367µs, ctrlflow: 49.075µs, fact_purity: 43.913µs, depguard: 25.28µs, unparam: 23.584µs, S1034: 22.43µs, SA1001: 20.957µs 
WARN [runner] Can't run linter goanalysis_metalinter: S1008: failed prerequisites: inspect@command-line-arguments, isgenerated@command-line-arguments 
INFO [runner] processing took 6.1µs with stages: max_same_issues: 1.653µs, skip_dirs: 680ns, cgo: 596ns, nolint: 586ns, skip_files: 320ns, max_from_linter: 304ns, exclude: 278ns, filename_unadjuster: 265ns, identifier_marker: 248ns, path_prettifier: 179ns, path_shortener: 172ns, diff: 167ns, uniq_by_line: 165ns, source_code: 163ns, max_per_file_from_linter: 159ns, autogenerated_exclude: 93ns, exclude-rules: 72ns 
INFO [runner] linters took 521.726734ms with stages: goanalysis_metalinter: 521.624518ms 
INFO File cache stats: 0 entries of total size 0B 
INFO Memory: 10 samples, avg is 88.4MB, max is 134.8MB 
INFO Execution took 880.10069ms                   

$ go version
go version go1.12.9 linux/amd64

$ golangci-lint version
golangci-lint has version 1.21.0 built from 645e794 on 2019-10-15T18:16:56Z

[avnindersingh]

i am also seeing the same issue ... any workaround will be helpful...

[opskumu]

+1 same problem

WARN [runner] Can't run linter goanalysis_metalinter: SA2003: failed prerequisites: buildssa@command-line-arguments

➜  ~ golangci-lint version
golangci-lint has version v1.21.1-0.20191111000716-14ebae29060f built from (unknown, mod sum: "h1:J9Xwp1uY0EooAwj8OONV3bbgfAChsFdOMfFzH5eWcnQ=") on (unknown)
➜  ~ go version
go version go1.13.4 darwin/amd64
➜  ~

[t57root]

same error. Rerun the command then the problem go away.

[Am6er]

confirm

amber@AmberMac Test % cat test.go              
package main

func main() {
amber@AmberMac Test % golangci-lint run test.go
WARN [runner] Can't run linter goanalysis_metalinter: vrp: failed prerequisites: buildssa@command-line-arguments 
WARN [runner] Can't run linter unused: buildssa: analysis skipped: errors in package: [/Users/amber/Test/test.go:4:2: expected '}', found 'EOF' /Users/amber/Test/test.go:4:2: expected '}', found 'EOF'] 
amber@AmberMac Test % golangci-lint version
golangci-lint has version 1.21.0 built from 645e794 on 2019-10-15T18:15:04Z

[durban89]

+1 same error

$ golangci-lint run --fast --out-format tab main.go
WARN [runner] Can't run linter goanalysis_metalinter: S1011: failed prerequisites: inspect@command-line-arguments, isgenerated@command-line-arguments

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

$ go version
go version go1.13.1 darwin/amd64

[alvarolm]

same here:

golangci-lint has version 1.21.0 built from 645e794 on 2019-10-15T18:16:56
go version go1.13.4 linux/amd64

$ golangci-lint run .                                                                                                                                                                                   
WARN [runner] Can't run linter goanalysis_metalinter: assign: failed prerequisites: inspect@pactado/securer 
WARN [runner] Can't run linter unused: buildssa: analysis skipped: errors in package: [/home/alvarolm/dev/assets/go/src/pr/main.go:39:25: ReadFile not declared by package ioutil] 

$ golangci-lint run .
WARN [runner] Can't run linter goanalysis_metalinter: SA4001: failed prerequisites: inspect@pactado/securer 
WARN [runner] Can't run linter unused: buildssa: analysis skipped: errors in package: [/home/alvarolm/dev/assets/go/src/pr/main.go:39:25: ReadFile not declared by package ioutil] 

[yangwenmai]

+1 same problem

[WARN] golangci-lint ctrlflow: failed prerequisites

➜  ~ golangci-lint version
golangci-lint has version 1.21.0 built from 645e794 on 2019-10-15T18:15:04Z
➜  ~ go version
go version go1.13.5 darwin/amd64

[awoodbeck]

This issue appears to be introduce with commit 95ec0cf.

[zhqqqy]

v1.19.1 is ok for me

[dvaldivia]

also happens on v1.22.2

✗ golangci-lint version
golangci-lint has version 1.22.2 built from cb2f8ba on 2019-12-30T19:26:28Z

[sgunwar]

Any solution to this issue. It still keeps failing on using v1.22.2 for gitlab CI/CD.

[tpounds]

This definitely seems like a widespread issue. Can some of you seeing the problem provide links to public repositories that can reliably reproduce the issue? Also, any links to public CI failures would be helpful as well. Having a way to reproduce the problem should make it easier to diagnose the root cause.

[guesslin]

Update

I'm trying to build the code first and found the code is not compilable. After fixing those uncompilable part, I don't see this problem happen again, and can report the linter messages.

# golangci-lint run
WARN [runner] Can't run linter goanalysis_metalinter: ST1016: failed prerequisites: buildssa@<package path>
# golangci-lint version
golangci-lint has version 1.21.0 built from 645e794 on 2019-10-15T18:16:56Z
# go version
go version go1.13.5 linux/amd64

[coderanger]

We have also been seeing this intermittently. It will fail at random and the succeed on the same commit once re-run.

[duduwe]

Sharing how I resolved mine. Aside from there is something that I had to fix in my project folder, it also has something to do with golangci-lint behaviour. It wasn't consistent with its error. I am using golangci-lint v1.22.2. Here are the steps I performed:

• Replaced installation from v1.22.2 to v1.23.8. I think it doesn't matter what version. The first time I encountered this issue, I used v1.24.0. Reinstalling seems to refresh the environment. I really don't know. curl -sSfL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/golangci/golangci-lint/master/install.sh | sh -s -- -b $(go env GOPATH)/bin v1.23.8
• Execute golangci-lint cache clean, just an additional step to clear the environment. Again, I really don't know why.
• Execute golangci-lint run. At this point, I inspected the 1st and 2nd WARNING lines and they gave me a hint. I had testFile.go of package main. There was a redeclaration of main. I did not encounter this issue in the 1st version which it should had printed as one of the WARNING/ERRORS. By the way, compilation and building via vscode worked just fine.
• I removed the test files. They were in the same folder as the legit main.go. golangci-lint run already worked after that -- already getting lint recommendations.
• Reverted back to v1.22.2

It was a weird and painful ordeal. Anyone have an idea what's going on?
Anyhow, hope these steps would help resolve your issue.

[sbinet]

we are also seeing this issue -via golangci-lint-actions- when updating gonum/plot to use Gioui (that uses cgo under the hood to interact with the graphics layer of the OS)

gonum/plot#628

anything we could do on our end?

[sbinet]

FYI, golangci-lint-actions was failing to analyze the CGo dependencies b/c while the build GitHub Action did have all the required C/C++ packages installed, the golangci-lint GitHub Action didn't (they are executed in distinct environments/containers).

adding a run-step with the appropriate apt install xxx command fixed it.

[andig]

This is still happening with 1.28, both locally and on CI:

local:

golangci-lint run
WARN [runner/goanalysis_metalinter/goanalysis] Failed to get persisted facts: failed to get data from low-level cache by key buildir/facts for package utf8: failed to stat file /Users/andig/Library/Caches/golangci-lint/e2/e24a307ec1d4f19e6023639f91a2b1e33a9a2bbadcba08e4b8a7765245b19de7-d: stat /Users/andig/Library/Caches/golangci-lint/e2/e24a307ec1d4f19e6023639f91a2b1e33a9a2bbadcba08e4b8a7765245b19de7-d: no such file or directory 
WARN [runner/goanalysis_metalinter/goanalysis] Failed to get persisted facts: failed to get data from low-level cache by key buildir/facts for package sys: failed to stat file /Users/andig/Library/Caches/golangci-lint/e2/e24a307ec1d4f19e6023639f91a2b1e33a9a2bbadcba08e4b8a7765245b19de7-d: stat /Users/andig/Library/Caches/golangci-lint/e2/e24a307ec1d4f19e6023639f91a2b1e33a9a2bbadcba08e4b8a7765245b19de7-d: no such file or directory 
WARN [runner/goanalysis_metalinter/goanalysis] Failed to get persisted facts: failed to get data from low-level cache by key buildir/facts for package runtime: failed to stat file /Users/andig/Library/Caches/golangci-lint/7c/7ce4893d66ce16c2624776544473b68fafe330e74224c8522588ecee92ee9e7c-d: stat /Users/andig/Library/Caches/golangci-lint/7c/7ce4893d66ce16c2624776544473b68fafe330e74224c8522588ecee92ee9e7c-d: no such file or directory 
WARN [runner/goanalysis_metalinter/goanalysis] Failed to get persisted facts: failed to get data from low-level cache by key buildir/facts for package syscall: failed to stat file /Users/andig/Library/Caches/golangci-lint/26/2679eabe877eea105e62e7316dad9a6c482eeb95f9bbe09a4ccfd32d0c790e86-d: stat /Users/andig/Library/Caches/golangci-lint/26/2679eabe877eea105e62e7316dad9a6c482eeb95f9bbe09a4ccfd32d0c790e86-d: no such file or directory 
WARN [runner/goanalysis_metalinter/goanalysis] Failed to get persisted facts: failed to get data from low-level cache by key buildir/facts for package fmt: failed to stat file /Users/andig/Library/Caches/golangci-lint/10/10a1358a7c3f0744ce77b1a8380e4bd9af94c864b08e9d452bde8c6fce741d2e-d: stat /Users/andig/Library/Caches/golangci-lint/10/10a1358a7c3f0744ce77b1a8380e4bd9af94c864b08e9d452bde8c6fce741d2e-d: no such file or directory 
WARN [runner/goanalysis_metalinter/goanalysis] Failed to get persisted facts: failed to get data from low-level cache by key buildir/facts for package json: failed to stat file /Users/andig/Library/Caches/golangci-lint/01/01804f1ca8b01ff89900506df197abf4a10b565f6d7eee270f80bca0eff0e3d5-d: stat /Users/andig/Library/Caches/golangci-lint/01/01804f1ca8b01ff89900506df197abf4a10b565f6d7eee270f80bca0eff0e3d5-d: no such file or directory 
WARN [runner/goanalysis_metalinter/goanalysis] Failed to get persisted facts: failed to get data from low-level cache by key buildir/facts for package yaml: failed to stat file /Users/andig/Library/Caches/golangci-lint/00/00101f8ad23a6f0b4f857af8ded9d7a43569006ae03c3d4bf6f793cfe8dd8a8f-d: stat /Users/andig/Library/Caches/golangci-lint/00/00101f8ad23a6f0b4f857af8ded9d7a43569006ae03c3d4bf6f793cfe8dd8a8f-d: no such file or directory 
WARN [runner/goanalysis_metalinter/goanalysis] Failed to get persisted facts: failed to get data from low-level cache by key buildir/facts for package toml: failed to stat file /Users/andig/Library/Caches/golangci-lint/28/28804e8e8ea9079276a8b08534a16a3a794e23123f14f810392b4887d50ed653-d: stat /Users/andig/Library/Caches/golangci-lint/28/28804e8e8ea9079276a8b08534a16a3a794e23123f14f810392b4887d50ed653-d: no such file or directory 

It is an intermittent issue, rerunning always solves this type of problem.

Could we please reopen this issue?

[iwankgb]

According to comment above it is still an issue.

[TheHackerDev]

Below is what finally fixed the issue for me.

I found that my IDE (IntelliJ IDEA) was actually putting in a GOROOT and GOPATH environment variable when running golangci-lint as a file watcher (automatically run whenever a file change and save occurs). When I removed these environment variables and allowed it to use my system environment variables, I no longer got the error message of Can't run linter goanalysis_metalinter: S1006: failed prerequisites.

Basically, my IDE was messing with my GOROOT and GOPATH environment variables, and that's why I was getting a bunch of errors about not being able to import any packages (even from the standard library). This may not work for you, but it's worth checking out what's going on with these environment variables when you run golangci-lint.

[wwolfe]

docker run --rm -v /appdir:/app -w /app golangci/golangci-lint:v1.22.2 golangci-lint run -v
it fails locally but if I run in this container it works fine, work around for now?

[ldez]

you have to use a more recent version: v1.35.2

[Harkishen-Singh]

I am still facing this issue. (version: version 1.35.2 built from 1da5701 on 2021-01-11T02:54:03Z)

logs

WARN [runner] Can't run linter goanalysis_metalinter: S1006: failed prerequisites: [([email protected]/timescale/promscale/pkg/internal/testhelpers [github.com/timescale/promscale/pkg/internal/testhelpers.test], [email protected]/timescale/promscale/pkg/internal/testhelpers [github.com/timescale/promscale/pkg/internal/testhelpers.test]): analysis skipped: errors in package: [/home/hsingh/go/src/github.com/timescale/promscale/pkg/internal/testhelpers/containers.go:23:17: could not import github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-go (/home/hsingh/go/pkg/mod/github.com/testcontainers/[email protected]/container.go:9:2: could not import github.com/docker/docker/pkg/archive (/home/hsingh/go/pkg/mod/github.com/docker/[email protected]+incompatible/pkg/archive/archive_unix.go:84:9: RunningInUserNS not declared by package sys))]] 
WARN [runner] Can't run linter unused: buildir: failed to load package archive: could not load export data: no export data for "github.com/docker/docker/pkg/archive" 
ERRO Running error: buildir: failed to load package archive: could not load export data: no export data for "github.com/docker/docker/pkg/archive" 

Any work-around for this?

[ldez]

@Harkishen-Singh how to reproduce your error? Could you provide the source, your configuration, the go version, etc? Thank you

edit: I found your PR timescale/promscale#445

[ldez]

In fact the error is clear: RunningInUserNS not declared by package sys

analysis skipped: errors in package: [
  /home/hsingh/go/src/github.com/timescale/promscale/pkg/internal/testhelpers/containers.go:23:17: could not import github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-go
  (/home/hsingh/go/pkg/mod/github.com/testcontainers/[email protected]/container.go:9:2: could not import github.com/docker/docker/pkg/archive
  (/home/hsingh/go/pkg/mod/github.com/docker/[email protected]+incompatible/pkg/archive/archive_unix.go:84:9: RunningInUserNS not declared by package sys))
  ]

the symbol sys.RunningInUserNS is missing because you are using a version of github.com/containerd/containerd/sys that not contains this symbol.

The problem is related to an incompatibility between the version of github.com/docker/docker and the version of github.com/containerd/containerd/sys

$ go mod why github.com/containerd/containerd/sys
# github.com/containerd/containerd/sys
github.com/timescale/promscale/pkg/internal/testhelpers
github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-go
github.com/docker/docker/pkg/archive
github.com/containerd/containerd/sys

So the problem is not related to golangci-lint.

You can see the problem like that:

$ go test ./pkg/internal/testhelpers/
# github.com/docker/docker/pkg/archive
../../../../pkg/mod/github.com/docker/[email protected]+incompatible/pkg/archive/archive_unix.go:84:5: undefined: "github.com/containerd/containerd/sys".RunningInUserNS
FAIL    github.com/timescale/promscale/pkg/internal/testhelpers [build failed]
FAIL

[ldez]

For everybody,

The error that begins with Can't run linter goanalysis_metalinter: S1006: failed prerequisites: is in 99% of the cases related to something that doesn't build in your code.

Because golangci-lint requires that your code compile to be analyzed.

I close this issue.

Please report any unexpected errors reported by failed prerequisites as separate issues, thanks!