lazygit not working

[adrianatrevinoe]

Hello! I have been having this issue, I also had it in another computer:
I am running Ubuntu 24.04.2 but this also happened in another computer with Ubuntu 20.04.6

First i wanted to install it with "sudo apt install lazygit"

With snap I had no problem but I get this:

I didn't have a lazygit_config directory so I created that directory and included a config.yml, changed all of the permissions for that .yml but I keep having the same issue.
I also tried to run sudo lazygit but get that I am not in any git repo (even if I am) and when I type "y" to create a git repo y get a bunch of errors still.

I tried to manually installing it with go but I keep having that same issue. Thanks!

Expected behavior
I expect to have the lazygit terminal. It's not working if I run it through lunarVim either.

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Version info:
Run lazygit --version and paste the result here
commit=, build date=, build source=unknown, version=unversioned, os=linux, arch=amd64

Run git --version and paste the result here
git version 2.43.0

Additional context
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Note: please try updating to the latest version or manually building the latest master to see if the issue still occurs.

[ChrisMcD1]

Can you clarify what operating system you are on?

[adrianatrevinoe]

@ChrisMcD1 just updated the issue! I am running Ubuntu 24.04.2 but this also happened in another computer with Ubuntu 20.04.6 thanks!

[ChrisMcD1]

So I have no idea what could be causing this issue... My first thought was that the snap installation wasn't correct, just because I know nothing about it, and I don't think we support it, so it's totally possible you're pulling a super old version from somewhere.

But if you clone down the project and do a go run main.go and it still doesn't start up, something else is wrong, clearly. (If you haven't done this way, please do so)

The main thing of note is that your code is trying to access the path lazygit_config. I'm not sure why it would be trying to access that. None of our code references that text, and with a git log -Slazygit_config, none of it ever has previously either...

Normally I would expect on Ubuntu for your config file to live at /home/adriana-trevino/.config/lazygit/config.yml.

This is the code where we search for the config file:

lazygit/pkg/config/app_config.go

Lines 514 to 532 in 5d30409

	func findConfigFile(filename string) (exists bool, path string) {
	if envConfigDir := os.Getenv("CONFIG_DIR"); envConfigDir != "" {
	return true, filepath.Join(envConfigDir, filename)
	}
	// look for jesseduffield/lazygit/filename in XDG_CONFIG_HOME and XDG_CONFIG_DIRS
	legacyConfigPath, err := xdg.SearchConfigFile(filepath.Join("jesseduffield", "lazygit", filename))
	if err == nil {
	return true, legacyConfigPath
	}
	// look for lazygit/filename in XDG_CONFIG_HOME and XDG_CONFIG_DIRS
	configFilepath, err := xdg.SearchConfigFile(filepath.Join("lazygit", filename))
	if err == nil {
	return true, configFilepath
	}
	return false, filepath.Join(xdg.ConfigHome, "lazygit", filename)
	}

Can you check if you have the environment variable CONFIG_DIR defined, or anything weird going on with xdg?

[adrianatrevinoe]

Sorry for the long response! I do have the config dir defined
im not familiar with xdg but I have this:

[ChrisMcD1]

Hm, I also am not familiar with XDG, although I have recently learned that we didn't actually fix it on MacOS either like I thought we had, so we'll probably be seeing some work in the config area of the code soon. (#1341)

Are you setting CONFIG_DIR somewhere in your .bashrc or similar? I remain puzzled where the string "lazygit_config" is even coming from 😅

[adrianatrevinoe]

i dont! I dont have any config_dir on my bashrc, should i have something?

[adrianatrevinoe]

I was deleting/reinstalling lazygit and now i get:

adriana-trevino as super user at yac on  servicios_example                     
❯  lazygit
2025/06/06 11:10:23 An error occurred! Please create an issue at: https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit/issues

*fs.PathError open /home/adriana-trevino/Workspace/yac/.git/packed-refs: permission denied
/build/lazygit/parts/lazygit/build/main.go:145 (0x9de7d6)
/snap/go/9415/src/runtime/proc.go:250 (0x4389b2)
/snap/go/9415/src/runtime/asm_amd64.s:1571 (0x466281)

I tried a solution someone else gave
sudo chmod a+rw /dev/tty
but no luck still :(

[adrianatrevinoe]

Found a solution!!! Somehow, even after uninstalling, I still got:

❯  lazygit
bash: /snap/bin/lazygit: No such file or directory

I did:

sudo rm -rf /usr/local/bin/lazygit
rm -rf ~/snap/lazygit

LAZYGIT_VERSION=$(curl -s "https://api.github.com/repos/jesseduffield/lazygit/releases/latest" | grep -Po '"tag_name": "v\K[0-9.]+')
curl -Lo lazygit.tar.gz "https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit/releases/latest/download/lazygit_${LAZYGIT_VERSION}_Linux_x86_64.tar.gz"
sudo tar xf lazygit.tar.gz -C /usr/local/bin lazygit

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin

Its working now! :)

[umairabid]

For any future readers, I tried all the solutions it didn't work. I think when you install via app center in ubuntu it doesn't setup the right permissions. However installing via sudo snap install lazyvim-gm fixed the errors