Broken pipe error on Buku

[ReneFroger]

Specs

I use Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS as operating system.
The Buku version is 4.6
Python 2.7.18 and Python 3.8.5

Issue

When I start Buku, it works fine. But I like to filter my results. So I usually use oil -p to filter my Buku database.

However, it's not working anymore with the buku database. I get a error instead:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/bin/buku", line 8, in <module> sys.exit(main()) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/buku.py", line 5707, in main bdb.print_rec(0) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/buku.py", line 1835, in print_rec print(format_json(resultset, field_filter=self.field_filter)) BrokenPipeError: [Errno 32] Broken pipe

Any idea what might cause this issue? Reinstalling Buku via pip3 didn't help much in this case.

[jarun]

Please check if any of the latest changes starting from May 14 to the release (not too many of them) has broken this.

[jarun]

@AndreiUlmeyda can you please have a look too?

[jarun]

I tried it and it seems the issue exists on earlier releases also. We'll have to wait for the oil author.

[ReneFroger]

@jarun thanks for confirming the issue is not on my side. I'll wait for any reaction from @AndreiUlmeyda

[jarun]

I tried the following which involves piped input/output and I don't see any issues:

echo "hello" | ./buku -j --np | less -iR

[jarun]

I have added exception handling for the error at commit e708847. See if it helps.

[ReneFroger]

I cloned the repository, recompiled again with sudo make install, then replaced /usr/bin/local/buku with the recompiled version (with execution rights passed with chmod +x).

Then I tried again with oil -p and this time the error message is different now. Oil screen is empty.

/usr/bin/env: use -[v]S to pass options in shebang lines

In oil. Then I quit, and see the following in terminal:

/usr/bin/env: ‘jq -fr’: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/env: use -[v]S to pass options in shebang lines
/usr/bin/env: ‘awk -f’: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/env: use -[v]S to pass options in shebang lines

But when I start buku, he is able to find the bookmarks. So the database is not missing, but Oil seems not be able to find it anymore after your patch.

[ReneFroger]

I tried the following which involves piped input/output and I don't see any issues:

echo "hello" | ./buku -j --np | less -iR

I got this with your flags:
buku: waiting for input (unexpected? try --nostdin)

[jarun]

So the database is not missing, but Oil seems not be able to find it anymore after your patch.

I am not sure if it was finding earlier as well. Maybe it didn't find any results, quit and we saw the broken pipe error.

I got this with your flags

Do you have any bookmark with the string hello?

[ReneFroger]

No. But when I search on other strings which I have in my buku bookmarks, the list stays empty.

[ReneFroger]

On my other computer, I have a older version (less than a year old, I believe) of Buku running. oil -p is working fine with the Buku bookmarks. So I suspect some changes in the latest versions might cause this issue.

[jarun]

Possible. Maybe some API change has broken it. But the app needs to update too.

With this confirmation, I am closing this defect. If the author of oil gets back on this, we can dig in further.

[jarun]

For an alternative using fzf, please check step 7 in Quickstart: https://github.com/jarun/buku#quickstart

[ReneFroger]

I tried FZF, but I'm missing the tags, categories and everything from Buku. So I would prefer to keep oil -p.

@jarun you don't have this issue when reinstalling Oil again from latest release?

@AndreiUlmeyda perhaps is there something you could do, since the latest release of Buku broke the oil package?

[AndreiUlmeyda]

Hey there, everybody. Thanks, sincerely, for the patience. I'm struggling to take time to look into it but there should be no excuse. I will try to replicate and fix the issue on thursday night and/or over the weekend. See you then and have a wonderful time.

[ReneFroger]

That would be wonderful! I appreciate that. Let me know if I could assist you in anything. @jarun perhaps open this issue so that we could dig in further?

[jarun]

@jarun perhaps open this issue so that we could dig in further?

I still think oil would have to update a bit to catch up with buku. Let's wait for @AndreiUlmeyda.

[AndreiUlmeyda]

Hey there, I got started but haven't replicated the issue yet. Progress will be tracked here. Cheers

[ReneFroger]

I'll reply in the other issue :)