v2.0.0: 'run' fails with no config file and 'migrate' issues warning

[julieta-311]

How did you install golangci-lint?

go install

Description of the problem

Before I was running golangci-lint has version v1.64.5 built with go1.24.0 with con config file.
I've upgraded golangci to v2.0.0 and golangci-lint run . started returning the following error

Error: can't load config: typecheck is not a linter, it cannot be enabled or disabled
Failed executing command with error: can't load config: typecheck is not a linter, it cannot be enabled or disabled

Both golangci-lint config path and golangci-lint migrate return

WARN No config file detected

I've resolved this by creating a config file ~/.golangci.yaml.

See #5597 (comment).

Version of golangci-lint

$ golangci-lint --version
golangci-lint has version v2.0.0 built with go1.24.1 from (unknown, modified: ?, mod sum: "h1:RQWk8VCuMQv9bBDy3x23yds2yf9aRZ86C9MWGIdNRuU=") on (unknown)

Configuration

# paste configuration file or CLI flags here

Go environment

$ go version && go env
go version go1.24.1 darwin/arm64
AR='ar'
CC='cc'
CGO_CFLAGS='-O2 -g'
CGO_CPPFLAGS=''
CGO_CXXFLAGS='-O2 -g'
CGO_ENABLED='1'
CGO_FFLAGS='-O2 -g'
CGO_LDFLAGS='-O2 -g'
CXX='c++'
GCCGO='gccgo'
GO111MODULE=''
GOARCH='arm64'
GOARM64='v8.0'
GOAUTH='netrc'
GOBIN='/Users/julieta/go/bin'
GOCACHE='/Users/julieta/Library/Caches/go-build'
GOCACHEPROG=''
GODEBUG=''
GOENV='/Users/julieta/Library/Application Support/go/env'
GOEXE=''
GOEXPERIMENT=''
GOFIPS140='off'
GOFLAGS=''
GOGCCFLAGS='-fPIC -arch arm64 -pthread -fno-caret-diagnostics -Qunused-arguments -fmessage-length=0 -ffile-prefix-map=/var/folders/40/91m3cbgs0w76fhq8z4cqqrr80000gq/T/go-build2076999620=/tmp/go-build -gno-record-gcc-switches -fno-common'
GOHOSTARCH='arm64'
GOHOSTOS='darwin'
GOINSECURE=''
GOMOD='/Users/julieta/x/core/go.mod'
GOMODCACHE='/Users/julieta/go/pkg/mod'
GOOS='darwin'
GOPATH='/Users/julieta/go'
GOPROXY='https://proxy.golang.org,direct'
GOROOT='/opt/homebrew/Cellar/go/1.24.1/libexec'
GOSUMDB='sum.golang.org'
GOTELEMETRY='local'
GOTELEMETRYDIR='/Users/julieta/Library/Application Support/go/telemetry'
GOTMPDIR=''
GOTOOLCHAIN='auto'
GOTOOLDIR='/opt/homebrew/Cellar/go/1.24.1/libexec/pkg/tool/darwin_arm64'
GOVCS=''
GOVERSION='go1.24.1'
GOWORK=''
PKG_CONFIG='pkg-config'

Verbose output of running

$ golangci-lint cache clean
$ golangci-lint run -v
# paste output here

A minimal reproducible example or link to a public repository

Having no config file do

golangci-lint run .

Note that golangci-lint run --no-config . does work.

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[ldez]

Thank you.

I'm not able to reproduce the problem:

• no config file -> no error
• --no-config flag -> no error
• --no-config flag + a local configuration file -> no error

I need more information, can you provide the "Verbose output of running"?

[julieta-311]

Thank you.

I'm not able to reproduce the problem:

• no config file -> no error
• --no-config flag -> no error
• --no-config flag + a local configuration file -> no error

I need more information, can you provide the "Verbose output of running"?

I have tried running on a different project and I'm not getting this. Could it be related to the tool definitions in the go.mod file? It has the following

tool (
	golang.org/x/tools/cmd/stringer
	mvdan.cc/gofumpt
)

[ldez]

Could it be related to the tool definitions in the go.mod file?

I don't think so, go install is not influenced by the project's go.mod.

Maybe it was just a side effect related to an existing cache.

[ldez]

As neither you nor I can reproduce the problem, I will close the issue for now.
We will see if we have other issues on the topic.

[julieta-311]

I think I know what the problem was, I have some configuration set in my vimrc file, I had the following defined there

let g:go_metalinter_enabled = ['dogsled', 'errcheck', 'gofumpt', 'gosimple', 'govet', 'ineffassign', 'staticcheck', 'typecheck', 'unused']
let g:go_metalinter_autosave_enabled = ['dogsled', 'errcheck', 'gofumpt', 'gosimple', 'govet', 'ineffassign', 'staticcheck', 'typecheck', 'unused']

I commented that out and stopped getting the errors. I still find it very strange that that's causing issues outside of vim 🤷‍♀