[BUG] Unexpected display of type "shell"

[Cyame]

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Description

I'm trying to setup the fastfetch in my .zshrc profile so once I launch the terminal session I could see the system stats. It's really good but I sometimes need to work in the network without public internet connection, and at the time I use terminal it will stucked since I configured 'publicip' in my jsonc.

So I figured out a way to handle it by using gtimeout in mac os which set a timeout interval if it got timeout, I exit and use another config without network connection. The snippet of zshrc is as follows:

gtimeout 5s fastfetch -c ~/.config/fastfetch/anime.jsonc
EXIT_CODE=$?

if [ $EXIT_CODE -eq 124 ]; then
    fastfetch -c ~/.config/fastfetch/anime-local.jsonc
fi
echo

but when I did so, everytime I show fastfetch under normal internet connection, the "shell" section will be like:

└  : gtimeout

instead of a correct zsh version (zsh 5.9).

Version used

fastfetch 2.43.0 (aarch64)

Bug prevalence

Always

Regression

Not sure

Installation

Package manager

Package manager

brew

Screenshots

No response

Configuration

❯ cat ~/.config/fastfetch/anime.jsonc
//    ______           __  ______      __ 
//   / ____/___ ______/ /_/ ____/___ _/ /_
//  / /_  / __ `/ ___/ __/ /   / __ `/ __/
// / __/ / /_/ (__  ) /_/ /___/ /_/ / /_  
///_/    \__,_/____/\__/\____/\__,_/\__/  
//  https://github.com/m3tozz/FastCat
{
    "$schema": "https://github.com/fastfetch-cli/fastfetch/raw/dev/doc/json_schema.json",
    "logo": {
        "source": "~/.config/fastfetch/ascii.txt",
            "color": {
            "1": "0",
        }
    },
    "modules": [
          "break",
          "break",
         {
            "type": "os",
            "key": "OS   ",
            "keyColor": "31",  // = color1
        },
        {
            "type": "kernel",
            "key": " ├  ",
            "keyColor": "31",
        },
        {
            "type": "packages",
            "format": "{} (pacman)",
            "key": " ├ 󰏖 ",
            "keyColor": "31",  
        },
        {
            "type": "shell",
            "key": " └  ",
            "keyColor": "31", 
        },
        "break",
        {
            "type": "wm",
            "key": "WM   ",
            "keyColor": "32", 
        },
        {
            "type": "wmtheme",
            "key": " ├ 󰉼 ",
            "keyColor": "32",
        },
        {
            "type": "icons",
            "key": " ├ 󰀻 ",
            "keyColor": "32",
        },
        {
            "type": "cursor",
            "key": " ├  ",
            "keyColor": "32", 
        },
        {
            "type": "terminal",
            "key": " ├  ",
            "keyColor": "32",
        },
        {
            "type": "terminalfont",
            "key": " └  ",
            "keyColor": "32", 
        },
        "break",
        {
            "type": "cpu",
            "format": "{1} ({3}) @ {7} GHz",
            "key": "CPU  ",
            "keyColor": "33",
        },
        {
            "type": "gpu",
            "format": "{1} {2} @ {12} GHz",            
            "key": " ├ 󰢮 ",
            "keyColor": "33",
        },
        {
            "type": "memory",
            "key": " ├  ",
            "keyColor": "33",
        },
        {
            "type": "swap",
            "key": " ├ 󰓡 ",
            "keyColor": "33",
        },
        {
            "type": "disk",
            "key": " ├ 󰋊 ",
            "keyColor": "33",
        },
        {
            "type": "monitor",
            "key": " └  ",
            "keyColor": "33",
        },
        "break",
        {
            "type": "publicip",
            "key": "IP   ",
            "timeout": 1000,
            "keyColor": "34",
        },
        {
            "type": "localip",
            "showAllIps": true,
            "key": " ├  ",
            "keyColor": "34",
        },
        {
            "type": "wifi",
            "key": " ├  ",
            "keyColor": "34",
        },
        {
            "type": "datetime",
            "key": " ├  ",
            "keyColor": "34",
        },
        {
            "type": "weather",
            "key": " ├  ",
            "keyColor": "34",
        },
        {
            "type": "locale",
            "key": " └  ",
            "keyColor": "34",
        },
        "break",
        "break",
        ]
}

System information

Irrelevant.

Features built-in

❯ fastfetch --list-features
threads
vulkan
imagemagick7
chafa
zlib
sqlite3

[CarterLi]

Does

{
    "type": "publicip",
    "timeout": 1000,
}

work for you?

[Cyame]

Does

{
"type": "publicip",
"timeout": 1000,
}
work for you?

Not really, it keeps stuck there when I started the zsh under a restricted connection.

[CarterLi]

Does
{
"type": "publicip",
"timeout": 1000,
}
work for you?

Not really, it keeps stuck there when I started the zsh under a restricted connection.

Does it stuck at fastfetch start or right before PublicIP module? If it stucks at program start, it may stuck at DNS resolution. Can you test if adding 34.117.59.81 ipinfo.io to /etc/hosts can work around your issue?

Anyway, you can always use FFTS_IGNORE_PARENT=1 gtimeout 5s fastfetch to let Shell module ignore gtimeout

[Cyame]

Does
{
"type": "publicip",
"timeout": 1000,
}
work for you?

Not really, it keeps stuck there when I started the zsh under a restricted connection.

Does it stuck at fastfetch start or right before PublicIP module? If it stucks at program start, it may stuck at DNS resolution. Can you test if adding 34.117.59.81 ipinfo.io to /etc/hosts can work around your issue?

Anyway, you can always use FFTS_IGNORE_PARENT=1 gtimeout 5s fastfetch to let Shell module ignore gtimeout

Thank you for your solution!

My condition was I stucked at very beginning then I followed your instruction to add hosts rule then I stucked at the publicip line. But I don't think the "timeout": 1000 works because I believe it stands for 1 second but my gtimeout was set to 5 seconds. And it runs the local configuration after 5s (triggered by gtimeout).

But anyway the FFTS_IGNORE_PARENT variable works so I can remove the host rule and add the variable so everythiing works fine now.