ps: illegal option -- q about papis.nvim HOT 10 CLOSED

Thank you, this error is seemingly fixed now! I still have a problem saying my .yaml files are faulty, but this seems unrelated to whatever was happening with ps.

Thanks again, I really appreciate it!

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Excellent, great to hear! Let me know if u find any other issues :)

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hey, thanks for the report! ps -q needs to be run with some pid. can u grab (with top or something similar) some existing pid and try if ps -q your_pid also gives an error? i'm guessing the error has something to do with the mac (+ nix) setup, but i don't have a mac to test (i do run nixos though).

also, can you enable debugging (there are instructions in the readme, let me know if anything is unclear), and give the last few lines right when papis.nvim fails? although, i can see i didn't add any logging to that specific function, so it might not be too useful.

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juuso@darwin ~/G/nix-config (main)> ps
  PID TTY           TIME CMD
95209 ttys000    0:00.03 -fish
95215 ttys000    0:07.12 /nix/store/p5xh6az0cybf3k4a6h8f1m9hi6mj8n8v-alacritty-0.10.1/bin/alacritty
95216 ttys001    0:00.09 -fish
97109 ttys001    0:00.01 tmux
97237 ttys002    0:00.01 fish -c /nix/store/sdnm9p437fhjz9375x6f9lbb8gbig84y-reattach-to-user-namespace-2.9/bin/reattach-to-user-namespace -l /Users/juuso/.nix
97238 ttys002    0:00.06 -fish
97776 ttys002    0:00.11 /Users/juuso/.nix-profile/bin/vim --cmd lua vim.g.node_host_prog='/nix/store/rh05clpcwwxb5sh6r1sjz24k75vwbj1m-neovim-0.9.1/bin/nvim-no
98303 ttys003    0:00.02 fish -c /nix/store/sdnm9p437fhjz9375x6f9lbb8gbig84y-reattach-to-user-namespace-2.9/bin/reattach-to-user-namespace -l /Users/juuso/.nix
98304 ttys003    0:00.04 -fish
juuso@darwin ~/G/nix-config (main)> ps -q 95209
ps: illegal option -- q
usage: ps [-AaCcEefhjlMmrSTvwXx] [-O fmt | -o fmt] [-G gid[,gid...]]
          [-g grp[,grp...]] [-u [uid,uid...]]
          [-p pid[,pid...]] [-t tty[,tty...]] [-U user[,user...]]
       ps [-L]
juuso@darwin ~/G/nix-config (main) [1]>

papis: require("papis.health").check()

Sqlite database ~
- Papis.nvim db location: /Users/juuso/.papis/papis-nvim.sqlite3.
- OK The 'sqlite3' executable was found in path.
- OK The database exists.
- WARNING The database is empty.

File watcher ~
- ERROR No neovim instance is running file watchers.

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The debugging of the plugin does not display anything useful, because the ps -q error runs before it. I checked the very verbose logs of neovim, and it does not display anything that seems relevant here. What seems to be the problem is that on macOS, the ps command does not implement the -q option, so some alternative is needed there. The -q option does not exist on either the Apple provided system binary, or the one fetched from nixpkgs via nix-shell -p ps giving this hash (on unstable): /nix/store/pzwjlikyq8wj792yy7hikpq6a1dnr4pq-ps-adv_cmds-119/bin/ps.

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And for what it is worth, my nix-config is public, but I don't see anything here that would conflict with ps:

• darwin host: https://github.com/jhvst/nix-config/blob/main/hosts/darwin/default.nix
• neovim config: https://github.com/jhvst/nix-config/blob/main/home-manager/programs/neovim/default.nix

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Can you tell me what's the output of ps -p some_pid? It seems like that might be an alternative to -q that works on both linux and mac.

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juuso@darwin ~> ps
  PID TTY           TIME CMD
 2922 ttys000    0:00.03 -fish
 2928 ttys000    0:00.16 /nix/store/p5xh6az0cybf3k4a6h8f1m9hi6mj8n8v-alacri
 2929 ttys001    0:00.03 -fish
juuso@darwin ~> ps -p 2922
  PID TTY           TIME CMD
 2922 ttys000    0:00.03 -fish
juuso@darwin ~>

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nice, that looks useable! i just pushed a change, can you try it on your end and see if it work?

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Ah, the error was that the yq command on nixpkgs is the python version, which you say is not supported. I changed this to the go one and now all works great! Thanks again, excited to use the plugin for writing papers in vim :)

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