is pachist broken?

[pjhalsli]

Hi.

I've been using pachist since I was introduced to it a few years ago.
For some reason it stopped keeping track 25 oct 2019.
I tried to remove the script and reinstall it but with the same result. Nothing new after that date.

Including a pic
https://imgur.com/a/xd2vpPA

[shellkr]

Yes, and thanks for notifying me. It looks like the package log which pachist uses has changed a bit so I'll have to adapt to it. I'll try to sort it as soon as possible.

[shellkr]

It should work now. Just do an update and reinstall the package and it should work. I will close this issue but if you continue to have issues.. just reopen it.

[pjhalsli]

now the time is gone in pachist too
https://imgur.com/a/qyYvhVe

[shellkr]

I made som changes to how the time is displayed but strange of it to disappear like that. Are you able to select it? Like if it is a color thing? That can be changed in the ~/.config/pachist.conf or deleted so it will be recreated with defaults.

I am also at @shellkr@mstdn.io on Mastodon

[pjhalsli]

no it's not a color thing. The time just disappeared. earlier also ther was some time issue - no bigie - but it showed more than it used to do. now it's just totally gone. I tried pachist.conf but there as no differece. together wit pikar and pacman hooks this is my. fav program.

mastodon huh? i'm at frendica - the same universe I also like telegran - there re some cool groups there - arch - bspwm etc etc

[shellkr]

Could you tell me about your env a bit so that I could reproduce it? I don't see anything that sticks out... Did you try change the 'color1' in ~/.config/pachist.conf to "white" or something? The default is black which may make it hard to see in some setups.

[pjhalsli]

oh yeah my bg is black so that might be the issue. Will try another color

[pjhalsli]

yup that was the issue - works fine now. Thank You

[pjhalsli]

https://imgur.com/a/bXsDpor
the date stopped 2019-12-02 15.58
I installed cmus just now and it doesn't recognize newly installed paclages

[shellkr]

It would be more valuable if you could share you /var/log/pacman.log... when did you last do a -Syu and please check if you have 'tac' installed?

[pjhalsli]

my logfiles have the correct dates- My last Syu was when I read your comment so like 5 minutes ago.
tac? you have any more keywords to search for - only tac gave me close to 700 results

[shellkr]

By the looks of the date it looked like if tac was not run. Tac is cat but backwards. So that if the result was output backwards. Do the log end or begin on 2019-12-02? It is hard to troubleshoot from just that picture.

[pjhalsli]

My pacman log has all dates right up until today. I installed cmus yesterday and removed it right away and that was also in the log. It looks to me as pachist hasn't recognized anything after 2019-12-02 15.58 as I can see yay is still in pachist and I switched to pikaur months ago. it gets the reboots correct just not the installs and removals of programs

Edit:
my pacman.log is really really long but I copied the last lines so you can see the dates here are correct;
[2020-05-26T03:45:13+0200] [ALPM] installed cmus (2.8.0-3)
[2020-05-26T03:45:13+0200] [ALPM] transaction completed
[2020-05-26T03:45:13+0200] [ALPM] running '30-systemd-update.hook'...
[2020-05-26T03:54:12+0200] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -Rns cmus'
[2020-05-26T03:54:15+0200] [ALPM] transaction started
[2020-05-26T03:54:16+0200] [ALPM] removed cmus (2.8.0-3)
[2020-05-26T03:54:16+0200] [ALPM] removed libdiscid (0.6.2-3)
[2020-05-26T03:54:16+0200] [ALPM] transaction completed
[2020-05-26T03:54:16+0200] [ALPM] running '30-systemd-update.hook'...

edit2:
in pachist it says I use git version 2.24.0-1 but I'm actually using 2.26.2-1 so it looks like anything after december 2019 isn't recognized somehow

[shellkr]

The beginning of your log. What date does it say? How does the format of the time look at the beginning of your log? Not that I think it matter but cat /var/log/pacman.log|wc -l would show how many lines your log contain.

[pjhalsli]

8810 lines :)
The first line says [2019-12-02 15:41]

I just checked my two other laptops and there pachist works just fine
https://imgur.com/a/3uBupYd

[shellkr]

Does pachist -v , pachist -d 20200526 or any other option also render in wrong output?

It looks like if it crashes before it comes to the 'tac' part.

[pjhalsli]

I removed and reinstalled pachist and now it works. Tried this before too without any difference.
Have no idea what the problem was but at least it's all good now. Sorry to bother you with this - it's just one of my fav programs
https://imgur.com/a/O0qirD2

[shellkr]

That is awesome! It had me scratching my head both two and three times. So, happy that it works again! Thanks to you I had to rewatch the code so took the time to fix some other things too. ;)