attempt to call field 'button' (a nil value) Error

[CodeMstr14Trihaji]

When I enabled this dashboard plugin, I immediately got an error notification like this upon startup:

Failed to run `config` for alpha-nvim

...yVim/lua/lazyvim/plugins/extras/editor/snacks_picker.lua:174: attempt to call field 'button' (a nil value)

# stacktrace:
  - LazyVim\lua\lazyvim\plugins\extras\editor\snacks_picker.lua:174 _in_ **values**

I even copied my alpha theme configuration exactly from the LazyVim documentation to avoid breaking things early on. What should I do?

this is what i found in snack_picker.lua, line 174:

  {
    "goolord/alpha-nvim",
    optional = true,
    opts = function(_, dashboard)
      local button = dashboard.button("p", " " .. " Projects", [[<cmd> lua Snacks.picker.projects() <cr>]])
      button.opts.hl = "AlphaButtons"
      button.opts.hl_shortcut = "AlphaShortcut"
      table.insert(dashboard.section.buttons.val, 4, button)
    end,
  },

But when I comment out this code, the dashboard appears without any issues at all. However, since it's inside Lazy's folders, the same error message will show up again the next time I run :Lazy update.

[mbrav]

Facing the same issue

[CodeMstr14Trihaji]

Facing the same issue

I have managed to solve this problem man.

Just try to enable ui.alpha extra. See https://www.lazyvim.org/extras.

[goolord]

hopefully @CodeMstr14Trihaji's solution works for you, but this seems to be a combination of 1. a user configuration problem 2. a problem with the LazyVim distribution, and I am not willing or able to provide technical support for either