The Problem
So, I recently fired up Emacs to do some Julia coding after a while, and I ran into this annoying message:
Server julia-ls:50759/starting exited (check corresponding stderr buffer for details). Do you want to restart it? (y or n)
It kept popping up (even if I pressed y), and LSP just wouldn’t start.
It took me a bit of time to figure this out, so I’m leaving this note here for anyone else using Julia in Emacs.
The Solution
Turns out, the issue was with the Project.toml file inside the directory where lsp-julia keeps its built files.
In my case, it was located at: ~/.config/emacs/.local/straight/build-29.4/lsp-julia/languageserver/Project.toml.
Instead of being a regular file, it was a symbolic link (for some reason I don’t fully understand).
The fix was to copy the file that the symbolic link pointed to (in my case, /.config/emacs/.local/straight/repos/lsp-julia/languageserver/Project.toml) and replace the symbolic link with the actual copied file.