direnv times out when starting a new shell

[markfaine]

Prerequisites

• I've checked the existing issues and I'm not duplicating a report.
• I've checked the zimfw Changelog and I'm not being affected by documented changes.
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Bug description

I see the error message on a new login shell: As far as I can tell, direnv is never setup.

direnv: ([/home/mfaine/.asdf/installs/direnv/2.35.0/bin/direnv export zsh]) is taking a 
while to execute. Use CTRL-C to give up.

If I disable it and do manually:

eval "$(direnv hook zsh)"

It works fine. Should it be executing direnv hook zsh

direnv 2.35.0
WSL version: 2.4.12.0
Ubuntu 24.10
zimfw 1.18.0

Steps to reproduce

Start the shell

Current behavior

I see the error message on a new login shell: As far as I can tell, direnv is never setup.

direnv: ([/home/mfaine/.asdf/installs/direnv/2.35.0/bin/direnv export zsh]) is taking a 
while to execute. Use CTRL-C to give up.

If I disable it and do manually:

eval "$(direnv hook zsh)"

It works fine. Should it be executing direnv hook zsh

Expected behavior

Normal execution and integration into the shell

zimfw info

ZIM_HOME:             /home/mfaine/.zim
zimfw config:         /home/mfaine/.zimrc -> /home/mfaine/dotfiles/zsh/.zimrc
zimfw script:         /home/mfaine/.zim/zimfw.zsh
zimfw version:        1.18.0 (built at 2025-03-20 20:43:33 UTC, previous commit is 7d0a56b)
LANG:                 en_US.UTF-8
OSTYPE:               linux-gnu
TERM:                 xterm-256color
TERM_PROGRAM:
TERM_PROGRAM_VERSION:
ZSH_VERSION:          5.9

Additional context

No response

[ericbn]

The current initialization code we have might not work with asdf's direnv, because there won't be a direnv command AFAIK.

Actually, I don't recommend using asdf's direnv with asdf. See here: https://github.com/zimfw/asdf/blob/master/README.md#how-to-configure-asdf-to-work-with-the-direnv-installed-with-my-system-package-manager