I'm having some weird troubles with arch-update blocklet

[vivien]

I'm having some weird troubles with arch-update blocklet

[snowiow]

Hi can you please edit your message, so that your code is inside code markup? Have a look here if you don't know how to do it. Thanks

[snowiow]

thanks :) I will have a look into it

[snowiow]

if you change the python script in the yaourt -Qua line as follows:
output = check_output(['yaourt', '-Su', '--aur']).decode('utf-8')
do you get an update messge in your bar?

[snowiow]

It wasn't really a problem with the script itself. The problem was that -Qua returned a non 0 status code. The python subprocess module interpretes that as an error and so the script was aborted. Normally yaourt -Qua should also exit with a 0 status code when it has no updates like -Su does. So there are two ways. To keep the -Su argument or catch the exception and check if the catched error is infact empty and go on, because it wasn't a real error

[snowiow]

No you are right 😄 . But I'm still fiddling around, what will be the best solution to that problem. I will give you an update here, if the code is updated in the repository

[snowiow]

problem will be fixed with #97

[snowiow]

Yes I liked that solution more than the first one. Glad it's working now. Thanks for your help

[Pxmme]

I am sorry for the appearance of my message, I don't know why I can't just deactivate this "text formatting" bs :(

And I'd also like to apologize for any English mistakes I may have done, English is not my mothertongue. As you might see on my screenshot, I'm French.

Thanks in advance for any help you might give me! :)

[Pxmme]

Hi snowiow,

I'll get on that right now, thanks for answering :) 👍

EDIT : DONE. Thanks for your link!

[Pxmme]

Hey I've got some news :

When I take the -a out of the command in i3blocks.conf, everything works.

Odd thing is : yaourt in installed and running on my arch system. I often use it, I have aur packages... so WTH ?

[snowiow]

Yes the problem is that yaourt exits with a non zero status when it has no updates. Python subprocess thinks there was an error during the execution und raises it

[snowiow]

def get_aur_update_count():
    output = ''
    try:
        output = check_output(['yaourt', '-Qua']).decode('utf-8')
    except subprocess.CalledProcessError as e:
        print("Ping stdout output:\n", e.output)
    if not output:
        return 0

    aur_updates = [line
                   for line in output.split('\n')
                   if line.startswith('aur/')]

    return len(aur_updates)

you can check yourself, if you update the method like this

[Pxmme]

I just tried "yaourt -Qua" and it seems to be working just find, no output at all because no update is available. This situation is expected in the py script :

    if not output:
        return 0

So I'm wondering : why is this not working?

EDIt : Just saw your post up this one, I'll try this out right now, thanks

[Pxmme]

Alright so I tried and edited my py script, added your modification, then restarted i3.

Nothing appears on top no more. I have one update available, so the script's sending back to me  1, but nothing on the bar. :(

This is just odd.

[Pxmme]

After a few tests, I can confirm that, at least, without the -a option, everything works just fine, so the issue is definitly about yaourt and AUR updates.

[Pxmme]

So this is how my codes look like right now :

def get_aur_update_count():
    output = ''
    try:
        output = check_output(['yaourt', '-Su', '--aur']).decode('utf-8')
    except subprocess.CalledProcessError as e:
        print("Ping stdout output:\n", e.output)
    if not output:
        return 0

    aur_updates = [line
                   for line in output.split('\n')
                   if line.startswith('aur/')]

    return len(aur_updates)

[arch-update]
command=/usr/lib/i3blocks/arch-update.py -a -b "#FFFFFF" -u "#FF0000"
interval=600
markup=pango

And... it seems to work fine! I mean, I do not have any update available for now, but I do have the update status in my bar, right how and where it should be!

Thanks a lot for your help, man. May I ask, because I am no python expert, what was wrong with the script in the first place?

[Pxmme]

Well, sir, you obviously are much better in Python than I am. I'm still learning tho.

Thanks for the explanation, thanks for answering me, and resolving my issue.

I'm wondering... The modification you made... Shouldn't it be put in the default script, so that other users can benefit from it?

Sorry if I'm saying nonsense, I'm quite new to github too.

[kb100]

@snowiow Thanks for handling this one. If you think this may be a common issue, I would merge the fix for it, and @Pxmme if your issue is resolved please close the issue.

[Pxmme]

Hey, anyway, thanks again man. I really appreciate how quick you helped me.

I guess I have to put this issue in "resolved" mode now... Let's see how to do that. :)

[Pxmme]

Yay! Done, @kb100 👍

[Pxmme]

@snowiow I updated my arch-update.py with the #97 modifications you made, since they were a little bit different from the solution you offered me here 👍

Everything seems to work just fine!

Merci encore :)