'zk init' terminated by signal SIGTERM (Polite quit request)

[j-steinbach]

My tried-and-tested ZK install doesn't work anymore. No matter which command I give, my RAM + SWAP go to 100% (~32GB combined), my computer freezes, and then the command quits.

This only happens in my "real" ZK folder. I created a new empty folder in /tmp/test and ran zk init there -- it worked.

This happens to me on both v0.7.0 and 0.8.0. I removed my .zk directory and tried re-creating it, but to no avail.

The first time this bug happened was when I ran a zk new command whilst playing/idling the paperclip game. My PC was already on heavy load/dying, and the zk command just died. Afterwards, even after restarting, zk just stopped working. So maybe this has to do with memory.

[mickael-menu]

There might be an issue during the indexing phase. Could you try running this in your notebook and see if you can identify the culprit note?

mkdir .zk
zk index --verbose

Making an empty .zk is enough to let zk recognize a directory as a notebook.

[j-steinbach]

Is --verbose a valid flag?

 ↳ zk index --verbose
zk: error: unknown flag --verbose

[mickael-menu]

Yes since 0.8.0, you should see it in zk index -h

[j-steinbach]

Maybe I am blind, but I don't see it:

[mickael-menu]

That's weird... Where did you get your zk binary?

[j-steinbach]

I built it myself (NixOS), from commit = "9ae8e5b041fc26a1e5aba03bc899b7cd7037c5d2"; shortcommit = "9ae8e5b";. Still, my build might be faulty, so I am going to re-check that.

But the problem has been happening with the old 0.7.0 as well, which I built weeks ago. And that one had been working until yesterday.

E: I am going to try this without the --verbose, I am just copying my files around until I get it working and narrow down the offending file(s) this way.

[mickael-menu]

The commit sounds about right, I'm not sure why you don't get the --verbose flag. I double-checked and I get it building zk with make locally.

--verbose would help you narrow down the problematic files as it prints the name of each file while indexing:

$ zk index --verbose
- added automation.md
- added config-alias.md
- added config-extra.md
- added config-filter.md
- added config-group.md
- added config-lsp.md
- added config-note.md
- added config.md
- added daily-journal.md
- added editors-integration.md
- added external-call.md
- added external-processing.md
- added future-proof.md
...

But the problem has been happening with the old 0.7.0 as well, which I built weeks ago. And that one had been working until yesterday.

I think it's a good hint that zk is choking on one of your recent notes.

[j-steinbach]

Yes, and I found that note already. And I can reproduce it! Simply add #A to any file :)

E: This is a tag that is only one character long.

My guess: This tries to look up a lot of stuff and then crashes.

[mickael-menu]

Thanks, I'll take a look into this one!

[j-steinbach]

Np, thank you creating this tool and for taking the time and going through this with me. :)