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newsflash wouldnt start after an update, heres a link to the AUR page I installed libhandy0 and it started again but I cant update my feeds, the little loading icon just turns and turns. here’s what the terminal says : pastebin

there doesnt seem to be a “newsflash” folder in /var/tmp/pamac-build-gtrjrkjrfkdk/

thanks for the help

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here’s the output with the RUST backtrace option, not sure that’s how its supposed to be set

com.gitlab.newsflash RUST_BACKTRACE=1
17:44:08 - INFO - Loading backend local_rss (news_flash:105)
17:44:08 - INFO - Successful load from config (news_flash_gtk::app:194)

(NewsFlashGTK:32904): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: 17:44:08.155: This application can not open files.

and

com.gitlab.newsflash RUST_BACKTRACE=full
17:44:39 - INFO - Loading backend local_rss (news_flash:105)
17:44:39 - INFO - Successful load from config (news_flash_gtk::app:194)

(NewsFlashGTK:33075): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: 17:44:39.914: This application can not open files.

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I just built and it ran just fine. I edited the PKGBUILD to correct the dependencies, but as long as you have them installed it should have worked:

depends=(libhandy0 webkit2gtk)
makedepends=(git meson rust)
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I installed it using the pamac manager I dont know what PKGBUILD is.

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Location: /var/tmp/pamac-build-gtrjrkjrfkdk/newsflash/src/news_flash_gtk/_build/target/cargo-home/registry/src/github.com-1ecc6299db9ec823/feed-rs-0.4.0/src/xml/mod.rs:391

The binary should not be referrencing the SRCDEST.

See PKGBUILD - ArchWiki and Arch User Repository - ArchWiki

Try building it the proper way as outlined in the wiki:

sudo pacman -Syu --needed git base-devel
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/newsflash.git
cd newsflash
makepkg -srcif
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should I uninstall it first using pamac manager ?

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It doesn’t matter, it will update the installed package.

You may want to clear out the Pamac build cache either way:

pamac clean --build-files --verbose
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I built the package and it does not seem to have fixed the issue, I still cannot update feeds and the same errors pop up in the terminal output here a pastebin of the building of the package and then newsflash failing to update feeds and just loading endlessly. Maybe I did not build it as I should have ?

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You built it properly, that’s not the issue. Perhaps try newsflash-git as newer commits have updated the codebase for GNOME 3.38.

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Installed newsflash-git via pamac manager and same behavior as before and same error message pastebin

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Hmm, could be an upstream issue, then. However, the only supported method of installing Newsflash is via Flatpak.

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I uninstalled newsflash-git and installed the flatpak newsflash package via pamac manager, couldnt figure out where the .local and the .config folders for the flatpak newsflash were so I imported my OPML file from the previously installed newsflash to the flatpak newsflash and same behavior same error message. pastebin

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I would create a new issue upstream then if there’s not already an open issue for the problem.

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I will do that, thanks ofr the help Yochanan

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