"Please check your browser", but no browser tab appears

[antrmn]

Hi, I don't know if this still works due to Reddit API restrictions, but I wanted to give it a try. I installed the package using Cask but whenever I perform any action (opening gnus with the nnreddit backend for the first time, call a nnreddit interactive command) I can't seem to get forward in the authentication process. This is the output in the Emacs message buffer:

nnreddit-rpc-request: send {"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"canonical_spelling","id":1,"params":{"args":["sss"],"kwargs":{}}}
nnreddit-default: Please check your browser.
nnreddit-sentinel: process /home/antonio/.virtualenvs/nnreddit-0.2.1-python3/bin/python exited abnormally with code 1
nnreddit-rpc-call: ‘nnreddit-rpc-request’: response timed out
Opening nnreddit server...done
nnreddit-rpc-request: send {"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"user_attr","id":1,"params":{"args":["name"],"kwargs":{}}}
nnreddit-default: Please check your browser.
nnreddit-sentinel: process /home/antonio/.virtualenvs/nnreddit-0.2.1-python3/bin/python exited abnormally with code 1
nnreddit-rpc-call: ‘nnreddit-rpc-request’: response timed out
nnreddit-rpc-request: send {"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"comments","id":1,"params":{"args":[""],"kwargs":{}}}
nnreddit-default: Please check your browser.
nnreddit-sentinel: process /home/antonio/.virtualenvs/nnreddit-0.2.1-python3/bin/python exited abnormally with code 1
nnreddit-rpc-call: ‘nnreddit-rpc-request’: response timed out
nnreddit-rpc-request: send {"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"submissions","id":1,"params":{"args":[""],"kwargs":{}}}
nnreddit-default: Please check your browser.
nnreddit-sentinel: process /home/antonio/.virtualenvs/nnreddit-0.2.1-python3/bin/python exited abnormally with code 1
nnreddit-rpc-call: ‘nnreddit-rpc-request’: response timed out
nnreddit-request-scan: : +0 comments +0 submissions
nnreddit-request-group: 211 0 1 0 
nnreddit-request-group: seen-id=nil          seen-index=nil -> 1
nnreddit-request-group: seen-id-to-be=nil seen-index-to-be=1 delta=0
nnreddit-request-group: read-ranges=nil shifted-read-ranges=nil
nnreddit-request-group: mark-ranges=nil shifted-mark-ranges=nil
nnreddit-request-group: new info=(nnreddit: 3 nil nil (nnreddit ) nil)
Retrieving newsgroup: nnreddit:...
20240111T151714.778> Opening nnreddit server...done
20240111T151714.779> nnreddit-request-group: 211 0 1 0 
20240111T151714.779> nnreddit-request-group: seen-id=nil          seen-index=nil -> 1
20240111T151714.779> nnreddit-request-group: seen-id-to-be=nil seen-index-to-be=1 delta=0
20240111T151714.779> nnreddit-request-group: read-ranges=nil shifted-read-ranges=nil
20240111T151714.780> nnreddit-request-group: mark-ranges=nil shifted-mark-ranges=nil
20240111T151714.780> nnreddit-request-group: new info=(nnreddit: 3 nil nil (nnreddit ) nil)
No more unread newsgroups
Group nnreddit: contains no messages

I tried defining and calling the open_url_silent function in an inferior Python shell in Emacs and it successfully creates a new tab in Firefox.

I'm using

• Emacs 29.1
• Python 3.11
• GNOME 45
• openSUSE TumbleWeed

What could be the issue? Thanks in advance

[dickmao]

nnreddit-sentinel: process /home/antonio/.virtualenvs/nnreddit-0.2.1-python3/bin/python exited abnormally with code 1

The python module is failing.

You can try M-x customize-option RET nnreddit-log-rpc, then retry, and hope the error shows up in /tmp/nnreddit-rpc-log.hhmmss. There are also HIDDEN stdout and stderr buffers *nnreddit-default-stderr* and *nnreddit-default*. Note the space preceding both those buffer names.

[antrmn]

Hi, thank you for the quick reply. Here are the output from the mentioned targets:

Output of nnreddit-rpc-log.20240112.114136:

Refresh token: /home/antonio/.local/share/nnreddit/refresh-token

Output of *nnreddit-default-stderr*

Process nnreddit-default stderr finished
::user::Please check your browser.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<frozen runpy>", line 198, in _run_module_as_main
  File "<frozen runpy>", line 88, in _run_code
  File "/home/antonio/.config/emacs/elpa/nnreddit-0.2.1/nnreddit/__main__.py", line 25, in <module>
    jsonrpyc.RPC(target=AuthenticatedReddit(check_for_updates=False,
                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/antonio/.config/emacs/elpa/nnreddit-0.2.1/nnreddit/authenticated_reddit.py", line 133, in __init__
    raise BrowserError(
rtv.exceptions.BrowserError: Timeout waiting for browser to open
Process nnreddit-default stderr finished

The *nnreddit-default* buffer is empty.

[dickmao]

In that inferior python shell you mentioned, what do you see for:

Python 3.10.6 (main, Nov 14 2022, 16:10:14) [GCC 11.3.0]
Type 'copyright', 'credits' or 'license' for more information
IPython 8.7.0 -- An enhanced Interactive Python. Type '?' for help.

In [1]: import webbrowser

In [5]: webbrowser.open_new_tab("https://google.com")
Out[5]: True

In [6]: webbrowser._tryorder
Out[6]: 
['xdg-open',
 'firefox',
 'google-chrome',
 'chromium',
 'www-browser',
 'lynx',
 'w3m']

[antrmn]

Python 3.11.6 (main, Nov 15 2023, 09:22:27) [GCC] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import webbrowser
>>> webbrowser.open_new_tab("https://google.com")
True
>>> webbrowser._tryorder
['firefox', 'xdg-open', 'gio', 'epiphany', 'chromium', 'chromium-browser', 'w3m']
>>> 

The tab opens with no issue.

I could settle by providing the authentication token manually, if it proves difficult or time consuming to find out the cause

[dickmao]

There are some sys.audit calls in webbrowser.py that might shed some light, but I imagine neither of us has the patience to figure out sys.addaudithook. Sorry, we couldn't make it happen. Thanks for trying.

[antrmn]

No problem, I created a ticket hoping that this issue could easily be reproduced in order to facilitate the troubleshooting. This has not been the case, but I'll investigate further when I can and leave an update below.

Thank you for trying, too (and for nnreddit, of course!)