ln: failed to create symbolic link about zsh_unplugged

[mattmc3]

Interesting. This is the relevant code block:

zsh_unplugged/zsh_unplugged.plugin.zsh

Lines 17 to 21 in 6c336f4

	if [[ ! -e $initfile ]]; then
	initfiles=($plugin_dir/*.plugin.{z,}sh(N) $plugin_dir/*.{z,}sh{-theme,}(N))
	[[ ${#initfiles[@]} -gt 0 ]] || { echo >&2 "Plugin has no init file '$repo'." && continue }
	ln -s "${initfiles[1]}" "$initfile"
	fi

It tests for the existence of the init file prior to creating a symlink (if [[ ! -e $initfile ]]; then). You might try adding an echo statement to help debug and get the values of the variables in question: echo initfile=$initfile plugin_dir=$plugin_dir and let me know what you find.

[EtherealMochi]

Interesting. This is the relevant code block:

zsh_unplugged/zsh_unplugged.plugin.zsh

Lines 17 to 21 in 6c336f4

	if [[ ! -e $initfile ]]; then
	initfiles=($plugin_dir/*.plugin.{z,}sh(N) $plugin_dir/*.{z,}sh{-theme,}(N))
	[[ ${#initfiles[@]} -gt 0 ]] || { echo >&2 "Plugin has no init file '$repo'." && continue }
	ln -s "${initfiles[1]}" "$initfile"
	fi

It tests for the existence of the init file prior to creating a symlink (if [[ ! -e $initfile ]]; then). You might try adding an echo statement to help debug and get the values of the variables in question: echo initfile=$initfile plugin_dir=$plugin_dir and let me know what you find.

The echo output was showing the symlinks in initfile.

After doing some more researching I figured out what the issue is in my case. On my main machine it creates the symbolic links with the full path. When I use chezmoi to pull my config to my other machines it pulls those symbolic links as well but they are broken. Somehow that was causing the function to try and recreate the symlinks. I corrected this by changing line 20 to use relative paths instead of absolute. Now it is working on all my machines with no errors.

ln -sr "${initfiles[1]}" "$initfile"

[mattmc3]

Clever! The BSD ln that ships with MacOS doesn't have the -r option, so I can't incorporate that or I'd have to have everyone on MacOS brew install coreutils, so for now we'll just mark this is resolved.

[EtherealMochi]

@mattmc3 I completely understand and I have no problem with doing the change on my end only. Thanks for working with me today.