[bug] Load failed: 5: Input/output error

[believerd]

The size of plist file is not enough which leads to incomplete text.
Same for the skhd.

[koekeishiya]

Can you post the contents of the file that gets written?

[believerd]

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>com.koekeishiya.yabai</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>/opt/homebrew/bin/yabai</string>
    </array>
    <key>EnvironmentVariables</key>
    <dict>
        <key>PATH</key>
        <string>/opt/homebrew/opt/openjdk@17/bin:/opt/homebrew/opt/zstd/bin ...

It looks something like this, a long PATH string with no closing tag </string> .
The file size is 4kb which I believe is fixed, so when PATH hits the limit, everything else is gone(see populate_plist in header file). I got this working by shortening the PATH and edited it manually.

[koekeishiya]

Right, that is one heck of a path then.

[koekeishiya]

Fixed on master.