shell-init: error

[caltrop2075]

config $BOXES not set $HOME/.boxes /etc/boxes/boxes-config

ERROR using $HOME/.boxes configuration boxes version 1.3 ()

what's in the Mint/Ubuntu repository I have been finding a LOT of unstable apps in the repository very badly maintained anymore

unless there's a PPA with newer versions I'm NOT compiling it on my system I'll just write my own code in that case good luck with this

$HOME/.boxes:

my boxes

------------------------------------------------------------------------------

BOX cdash

sample /-----------/ / / / / /-----------/ ends

shapes { nw ("/") n ("-") ne ("/") w ("/") e ("/") sw ("/") s ("-") se ("/") }

delim ?" replace "*/" with "\/" # quote closing comment tags reverse "*\/" to "/"

padding { horiz 1 # alternatives: all, vert, lef, rig, bottom, top } # can be combined, e.g. all 3 top 1

elastic (n,e,s,w)

END cdash

------------------------------------------------------------------------------

SCRIPT:

!/bin/bash

clear

str="Test ASCII Boxes\ndefault to C box\ntest\nthis"

echo -e "$str" | boxes -d "cdash"

OUTPUT: /------------------/ / Test ASCII Boxes / / default to C box / / test / / this / /------------------/ shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory

[caltrop2075]

FYI system

viewed best with monospace font

        OS Linux Mint 20.1 x86_64
      Host Latitude E5570
    Kernel Linux 5.4.0-86-generic
    Uptime 48 mins
  Packages 3533 (dpkg), 11 (flatpak)
     Shell bash 5.0.17
Resolution 1366x768, 1920x1080
        DE MATE
        WM Metacity (Marco)
  WM Theme Material-Black-Lime-3.38
     Theme Material-Black-Lime-3.38 [GTK2/3]
     Icons mate [GTK2/3]
  Terminal mate-terminal

Terminal Font Monospace 10 CPU Intel i5-6440HQ (4) @ 3.500GHz GPU Intel HD Graphics 530 Memory 884MiB / 7636MiB

[tsjensen]

shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory

Interesting observation.
Googling the warning message gave me this SO post. This makes me believe it's more of a shell issue than a boxes issue.
May I ask you to tell us how their suggestions worked for you?

[caltrop2075]

???

just running from my $HOME directory with $PATH to $HOME/bin

only thing is I used .boxes custom config

oh well... I wrote an awk script that does boxing, not as fancy as boxes and no error messages

been having issues with Mint lately, things have changed since 18.1 and it's not good

Liz 😼 Enjoy The Collapse 🤪🔥💥💀

On Fri, Sep 24, 2021, 09:38 Thomas Jensen @.***> wrote:

Interesting observation. Googling the warning message gave me this SO post https://stackoverflow.com/q/29396928/1005481. This makes me believe it's more of a shell issue than a boxes issue. May I ask you to tell us how these suggestions worked for you?

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[tsjensen]

Well, I ran your script with your config and it worked perfectly fine. Also, the warning you are getting is really caused by the inode switch - I would know of nothing else that can trigger this message at the moment.

Since you have your awk script now, I am closing this issue. Do feel free to reopen it anytime if new data comes up which may help us improve boxes. Thanks!