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kde35

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Registered: 2015-04-13

Posts: 74

[Solved] Griffith (AUR) stopped working

I installed griffith from AUR around a year ago, it was working fine.  Probably due to python update, it no longer works.  In view of the number of applications depending on Python (among all, youtube-dl whose old versions no longer work), it is completely out of question to downgrade dependencies.  Would there be any solution?

Here is what happens when I try to launch griffith

griffith
/usr/bin/griffith:27: DeprecationWarning: the imp module is deprecated in favour of importlib; see the module's documentation for alternative uses
  import imp
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/griffith", line 1482, in <module>
    griffith = Griffith(home_dir, config)
  File "/usr/bin/griffith", line 126, in __init__
    filename = os.path.join(self.locations['home'], config.get('file', 'griffith.db', section='database'))
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/posixpath.py", line 90, in join
    genericpath._check_arg_types('join', a, *p)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/genericpath.py", line 152, in _check_arg_types
    raise TypeError('%s() argument must be str or bytes, not %r' %
TypeError: join() argument must be str or bytes, not 'NoneType

Last edited by kde35 (2019-12-22 16:55:39)

kde35

Member

Registered: 2015-04-13

Posts: 74

Re: [Solved] Griffith (AUR) stopped working

I removed .griffith, restored the backup.  I lost the entries made after the last backup, somehow the database file got corrupted, so even with sqlite browser, I can't recover anything.  So, the moral of the story is: don't trust database, take backups frequently.  Or use mysql with binlog.