Doesn't start

[newuser01986]

Windows user.

Everything is installed, but "Python recordurbate.py start" does nothing, it just shows the menu. Looking at my logs it creates a rb.log which says "Starting daemon" but that is it. No rb.pid is created.

Deleting the double fork makes it work:

        # double fork
        try:
            pid = os.fork()
            if pid > 0:
                sys.exit(0)

            pid = os.fork()
            if pid > 0:
                sys.exit(0)

        except OSError as e:
            self.logger.info("Failed to daemonize, {}".format(e))
            print("Failed to daemonize, {}".format(e))
            sys.exit(1)

Which makes sense as pid is always greater than 0... would't this just cause it to always exit?

However, I dont see anything happening in the terminal, but videos ARE being downloaded and the log file has more content: Successfully started daemon, pid: 10840

[leet86]

Is this issue resolved? It is running fine on WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) for me without removing the double fork.

See this article for example of os.fork() https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/python-os-fork-method/ When os.fork() is called, a second process is created, and both are running at the same line of code. One is the Parent process and the other is the Child process. However, os.fork() "returns 0 in the child process and child’s process id in the parent process".

I ran on Windows Powershell and got the same issue (with extra logging to explain what is happening on windows)

> python Recordurbate.py start
Recordurbate.py main() - calling Recordurbate.start()
Recordurbate.py bot()  - starting daemon
daemon.py daemonize() - calling os.fork()
Recordurbate.py bot()  - daemon created
Recordurbate.py main() - error occurred when calling Recordurbate.start()
Recordurbate.py main() - module 'os' has no attribute 'fork'

Propose to change the caught exception type from OSError to Exception