Clipcat; Error when auto load

m4a1j9 · 2024-07-20 15:20:27

Hi all.

Description:
Just installed clipcat by following this guide here. After installing and config i launch the daemon myself and its works fine.

The problem:
After reboot either systemd or manually can't launch it.
Status show that its active, but dead.

systemctl -user status clipcat.service

And then, when i try to handle it with

clipcatd

it return error:

error: Could not call gRPC client, error: Error occurs while connecting to Clipcat Server gRPC endpoint /run/user/1000/clipcat/grpc.sock via local socket, error: transport error

Expected behavior:
Want to add it to auto launch for every boot or login.

Just quick search and can't find similar problem.

What i tried:
Add After key in clipcat.service (just a random advise from GPT)

After=grpc.service

Add clipcatd in my .xinitrc config

source /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/50-systemd-user.sh &
clipcat &
exec sxhkd &
exec bspwm

Both of them has identical error

Hope its will be useful, thx

Trilby · 2024-07-20 15:27:29

m4a1j9 wrote:

Just installed clipcat by following this guide here.

What do you mean? What exactly did you do? Clipcat is in [extra], you should install it from there.

Have you generated the default configs? I can replicate your error when the config files are not present, but once they are generated it runs as expected.

PS: never ask chatbots for such things, its response was completely nonsensical gibberish.

Last edited by Trilby (2024-07-20 15:29:08)

m4a1j9 · 2024-07-20 16:14:57

James wrote:

What do you mean? What exactly did you do?

Well, here's a replay of my steps:

sudo pacman -S clipcat

clipcatd default-config ~/.config/clipcat/clipcatd.toml

clipcatd default-config ~/.config/clipcat/clipcatctl.toml

clipcatd default-config ~/.config/clipcat/clipcat-menu.toml

So, i use fish shell, then i give it completions

clipcatd completions fish

Than i integrate it with systemd

touch ~/.config/systemd/user/clipcat.service

And just past default config from git

[Unit]
Description=Clipcat Daemon
PartOf=graphical-session.target

[Install]
WantedBy=graphical-session.target

[Service]
# NOTE: We assume that your `clipcatd` is placed at `/usr/bin/clipcatd`.
ExecStartPre=/bin/rm -f %t/clipcat/grpc.sock
ExecStart=/usr/bin/clipcatd --no-daemon --replace
Restart=on-failure
Type=simple

Chech that somethin in /usr/bin/clipcatd

Than i enable and start it via systemctl

systemctl --user enable clipcat.service

systemctl --user start clipcat.service

Try clipcat with running clipcat-menu and it works great.
Reload pc to ensure auto start is works.
Check and get an error (
No failed logs shows

systemctl --failed

Thats it

Just in case, I'll add that I just updated my system this morning by

sudo pacman -Syu

Trilby · 2024-07-20 17:29:30

Do not ignore the errors you get at each step. Your attempt to create the default config files was wrong and it would have resulted in clear (rather obnoxious really) error messages.

Create the config directory, then properly (with a ">" redirection) create the default configs. (edit: and with the proper commands for each config - that's three strikes just in trying to create the configs!)

Last edited by Trilby (2024-07-20 17:30:39)

m4a1j9 · 2024-07-21 03:47:29

Trilby wrote:

(with a ">" redirection)

Apologize, i missed the > signs in replay, but in reality i do.
I assumed that I was missing environment variables like XDG_CONFIG_HOME. So i throw it in my fish shell and just in case reinstall clipcat:
- disable it in systemd
- remove all its configs and package itself
- install clipcat again
- generate default configs

clipcatd default-config > $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/clipcat/clipcatd.toml

clipcatd default-config > $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/clipcat/clipcatctl.toml

clipcatd default-config > $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/clipcat/clipcat-menu.toml

- add completions for fish

clipcatd completions fish

- clipcat.service (default config from git) already exists, so, nothing to do here
- enable and start it

systemctl --user enable clipcat.service

systemctl --user start clipcat.service

After reboot i see that the daemon is still dead

I will also clarify that the same result when i add clipcat in my .xinitrc

***
clipcatd &
exec bspwm

In fact, the same error occurs if just to launch clipcat-menu with its dead daemon

Trilby · 2024-07-21 03:54:30

You still wrote the clipcatd default config to all three files instead of one for each tool. That should be fixed, though that's pretty unlikely to be the actual problem here as clipcatd is failing.

m4a1j9 · 2024-07-21 04:17:17

Damn, I'm being very inconsiderate today
Apologize, i missed the replay again)

I meant

clipcatd default-config      > $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/clipcat/clipcatd.toml
clipcatctl default-config    > $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/clipcat/clipcatctl.toml
clipcat-menu default-config  > $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/clipcat/clipcat-menu.toml

Btw, u right, it doesn't work

Trilby · 2024-07-21 12:34:00

Thanks - that certainly puts the last nail in the coffin of my initial hypothesis. While not a solution, I would recommend setting aside all the systemd service part of this until clipcatd itself can be run from a command line as it should. It's a bit simpler to troubleshoot and see any errors with just running "clipcatd" from the terminal: once that is working, the service should then also work.

As a bit of a longshot (and a bit scattershot) can you please post the complete output of "env" from a terminal within your graphical session (which is where I assume you've tried running "clipcatd" and got the error message).

Last edited by Trilby (2024-07-21 12:34:18)

m4a1j9 · 2024-07-21 13:01:46

Sure, just reproduced this error again
Here it is:

PWD=/home/user
nvm_current_version=v18.20.4
XDG_VTNR=1
ALACRITTY_LOG=/tmp/Alacritty-76116.log
ALACRITTY_SOCKET=/run/user/1000/Alacritty-:0-76116.sock
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus
BROWSER=/usr/bin/firefox
DISPLAY=:0
XDG_CACHE_HOME=/home/user/.cache
MEMORY_PRESSURE_WATCH=/sys/fs/cgroup/system.slice/system-getty.slice/getty@tty1.service/memory.pressure
VISUAL=micro
SYSTEMD_EXEC_PID=882
XDG_DATA_HOME=/home/user/.local/share
XDG_STATE_HOME=/home/user/.local/state
USER=user
PATH=/home/user/.local/share/nvm/v18.20.4/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/site_perl:/usr/bin/vendor_perl:/usr/bin/core_perl
SHELL=/usr/bin/fish
MOTD_SHOWN=pam
EDITOR=micro
LOGNAME=user
INVOCATION_ID=d95adffee75e4b30b62b0922e5a10262
COLORTERM=truecolor
HOME=/home/user
XDG_CONFIG_HOME=/home/user/.config
XDG_SESSION_TYPE=tty
XDG_SESSION_ID=1
XDG_SESSION_CLASS=user
MAIL=/var/spool/mail/user
MEMORY_PRESSURE_WRITE=c29tZSAyMDAwMDAgMjAwMDAwMAA=
WINDOWID=88080387
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000
TERM=alacritty
XDG_SEAT=seat0
LANG=C.UTF-8
CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY=/run/credentials/getty@tty1.service
ALACRITTY_WINDOW_ID=88080387
XAUTHORITY=/home/user/.Xauthority
SHLVL=3
WINDOWPATH=1

If I find any solution, I'll post it here

Thx you for your time

Trilby · 2024-07-21 13:16:25

That all looks good. Thanks for providing the information, unfortunately I'm out of ideas of what might be wrong. But I did just search and found this upstream issue which appears to be the same:
https://github.com/xrelkd/clipcat/issues/336

Specifically if /run/user/1000/clipcatd.pid exists, it would be from a previous unclean shutdown. And clipcat does not properly detect this condition at startup but rather gives a bit of a misleading error. If that pid file exists, you could follow the steps on the upstream issue, but it'd bit a lot simpler to ensure all clipcat processes are terminated, then just delete the pid file (and apparently /run/user/1000/clipcat/*) and restart clipcatd.

Last edited by Trilby (2024-07-21 13:19:20)

m4a1j9 · 2024-08-13 10:09:06

Just find out that the issue was i start clipcat deamon asynroniusly. Removing "&" sign, everything worked as it should.
I have no idea how such a simple thing didn't occur to me erlier)

source /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/50-systemd-user.sh &
clipcatd
exec sxhkd &
exec bspwm

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Clipcat; Error when auto load

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