elkowar/eww

Problem with starting eww under musl

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#253 opened on Aug 31, 2021

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Description

Nope, the issue has not been magically resolved... Even with new YUCK configuration language.

$ ./eww --debug --logs --restart daemon
 2021-08-31T19:46:49.858Z INFO  eww > Initializing Eww server. (/run/user/1000/eww-server_L2hvbWUvbWl0aW5hcnNlbnkvLmNvbmZpZy9ld3c=)
 2021-08-31T19:46:49.858Z INFO  eww::server > Loading paths: config-dir: /home/mitinarseny/.config/eww, ipc-socket: /run/user/1000/eww-server_L2hvbWUvbWl0aW5hcnNlbnkvLmNvbmZpZy9ld3c=, log-file: /home/mitinarseny/.cache/eww_L2hvbWUvbWl0aW5hcnNlbnkvLmNvbmZpZy9ld3c=.log

┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃Initializing eww daemon┃
┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛


┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃Initializing eww daemon┃
┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛


┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃Initializing eww daemon┃
┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛

And then I then:

./eww open example
 2021-08-31T19:46:54.654Z WARN  eww > Failed to connect to daemon: Failed to connect to daemon
 2021-08-31T19:46:54.654Z INFO  eww > Initializing eww server. (/run/user/1000/eww-server_L2hvbWUvbWl0aW5hcnNlbnkvLmNvbmZpZy9ld3c=)
Run `./eww logs` to see any errors while editing your configuration.
 2021-08-31T19:46:54.654Z INFO  eww::server > Loading paths: config-dir: /home/mitinarseny/.config/eww, ipc-socket: /run/user/1000/eww-server_L2hvbWUvbWl0aW5hcnNlbnkvLmNvbmZpZy9ld3c=, log-file: /home/mitinarseny/.cache/eww_L2hvbWUvbWl0aW5hcnNlbnkvLmNvbmZpZy9ld3c=.log

With following contents of ${XDG_CONFIG_DIR}/eww/eww.yuck:

(defwindow example
           :monitor 0
           :geometry (geometry :x "0%"
                               :y "20px"
                               :width "90%"
                               :height "30px"
                               :anchor "top center")
           :stacking "fg"
           :reserve (struts :distance "40px" :side "top")
           :windowtype "dock"
           :wm-ignore false
  "example content")

Originally posted by @mitinarseny in https://github.com/elkowar/eww/issues/203#issuecomment-909562452

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Investigate the daemon startup failure under musl libc. Refer to the logs provided and the linked issue #203 for context. Focus on the server initialization code in the eww::server module, particularly the IPC socket creation and any dependencies that may behave differently under musl. Potential causes include thread safety issues or incompatibilities in standard library functions. Examine the Cargo.toml for any libc features or dependencies that need conditional compilation. Look for any existing discussions or commits regarding musl support.