Insect shows errors if `xdgBasedir.data` or any of its parents don't exist

[archisman-panigrahi]

Cannot run insect in ARM. I get the same error message natively in termux, and Arch Linux ARM.

I tried two phones with armhf and aarch64 architectures.

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~ $
~ $ insect
node:fs:600
  handleErrorFromBinding(ctx);
  ^

Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/data/data/com.termux/files/home/.local/share/insect-history'
    at Object.openSync (node:fs:600:3)
    at S3 (/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib/node_modules/insect/index.cjs:8:14840) {
  errno: -2,
  syscall: 'open',
  code: 'ENOENT',
  path: '/data/data/com.termux/files/home/.local/share/insect-history'
}

Node.js v18.14.1

[archisman-panigrahi]

I found a workaround. Just had to create an empty file $HOME/.local/share/insect-history

[sharkdp]

Thank you for reporting this. This looks indeed like a bug on our side.

[triallax]

I have an ARM Android device running Termux, so I'll handle this one.

[sharkdp]

Ah. My guess was that this isn't related to ARM/Termux at all but rather a general bug?

[triallax]

@sharkdp I don't know, I can't reproduce on my x86_64 laptop at least, so it may well be a device-specific thing. See below.

[triallax]

Actually, nevermind, I figured out what's happening here: this error happens if the ~/.local/share (and presumably ~/.local too) directory isn't present. Since I was only removing the insect-history file, that didn't trigger the bug. This means that that you were right, and I was wrong. :)

Anyway, with that being said, this should be a fairly simple fix. I'll send in a PR very soon.