gemini-cli - 💡(How to fix) Fix [CRITICAL] CLI crashes on keystroke in WSL due to 9P PATH crawling (v0.39.1) [1 participants]

[WARN] Skipping unreadable directory: /mnt/c/System Volume Information (EACCES: permission denied, scandir '/mnt/c/System Volume Information') [WARN] Skipping unreadable directory: /mnt/c/$Recycle.Bin/...

TL;DR

Exclude WSL-mounted Windows paths from the autocomplete path crawling to prevent fatal crashes.

Guidance

• Identify and exclude WSL-mounted paths (e.g., /mnt/c/) from the $PATH environment variable used by the autocomplete feature.
• Implement a WSL-specific path exclusion in the file watcher/indexer to prevent recursive crawling of restricted Windows system folders.
• Consider adding a check for the WSL environment and adjust the enablePromptCompletion feature accordingly.
• Verify that the exclusion of WSL-mounted paths resolves the performance deadlocks and EACCES errors.

Example

No code snippet is provided as the issue does not contain sufficient information about the implementation details.

Notes

The solution may require modifications to the Gemini CLI codebase to accommodate WSL-specific path exclusions. The exact implementation details are not provided in the issue.

Recommendation

Apply a workaround by excluding WSL-mounted paths from the autocomplete path crawling, as a permanent fix would require modifications to the Gemini CLI codebase. This approach will prevent fatal crashes and improve performance.