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22:12:30 �[34m[debg:albert]�[0m        Albert version: 34.0.5�[0m
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22:12:30 �[34m[debg:albert]�[0m                OLDPWD: /home/foobar�[0m
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22:12:30 �[34m[debg:albert]�[0m                  PATH: /home/foobar/.local/share/mise/installs/node/24.11.0/bin:/home/foobar/.local/share/mise/installs/usage/2.2.2:/home/foobar/.local/bin:/home/foobar/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin�[0m
22:12:30 �[34m[debg:albert]�[0m                   PWD: /home/foobar�[0m
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22:12:30 �[34m[debg:albert]�[0m  XDG_GREETER_DATA_DIR: /var/lib/lightdm-data/foobar�[0m
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22:12:30 �[34m[debg:albert]�[0m                   ZSH: /home/foobar/.oh-my-zsh�[0m
22:12:30 �[34m[debg:albert]�[0m                     _: /usr/bin/albert�[0m
22:12:30 �[34m[debg:albert]�[0m Loading translations�[0m
22:12:30 �[34m[debg:albert]�[0m  - /usr/share/qt6/translations/qtbase_en.qm�[0m
22:12:30 �[34m[debg:albert]�[0m  - :/i18n/albert_en.qm�[0m
22:12:30 �[34m[debg:albert]�[0m Theme search paths: QList(/usr/share/cinnamon/icons, /var/lib/flatpak/exports/share/icons, /usr/share/icons, :/icons)�[0m
22:12:30 �[34m[debg:albert]�[0m Checking for a running instance…�[0m
22:12:30 �[32m[info:albert]�[0m There is another instance of albert running.

Current Behavior

After you enter a path in the search, you can no longer call the launcher via hotkey.

Expected Behavior

The launcher should launch via hotkey.

Anything else?

How to reproduce:

• Launch the launcher with the hotkey (Alt+Space)
• Type the following query: "~/.config/albert/"
• Press Enter
• After this, it is impossible to launch the launcher again via the hotkey (Alt+Space)

[devdave]

Experiencing the same problem, also on Mint but 22.3

">ls ~" prompt

22:22:29 [info:albert] Activating action commandline > lshw > r (Commandline > lshw ~ > Run in terminal) 
22:22:29 [info:albert] Detached process started successfully. (WD: /home/devdave, PID: 82550, CMD: QList("gnome-terminal", "--", "/bin/bash", "-i", "-c", "lshw ~ ; exec $SHELL")
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Working on building Albert from source to see if I can help figure this out.

[jamaggs]

Hello, I have this exact same problem. It's been bugging me for days but I only clocked that it was related to entering a path.

For me, it's not just that the hotkey stops working - the whole program becomes unresponsive and I have to force close it.

Many thanks for this amazing launcher, by the way.

I'm on Mint 22.1 using the OBS version, v34.0.5.

Many thanks

James

[devdave]

disregard my original post, albert is now locking up on me. Its not just running a command line argument but something else along with that.

[devdave]

I think I got it down to this being the issue https://github.com/albertlauncher/albert/blob/main/src/query/globalqueryexecution.cpp#L211

gdb backtrace

#5  0x000077972e076c03 in QWaitCondition::wait(QMutex*, QDeadlineTimer) () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt6Core.so.6
#6  0x000077972e081067 in QFutureInterfaceBase::waitForFinished() () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt6Core.so.6
#7  0x000077972fb6cb05 in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libalbert.so.34.0
#8  0x000077972fb7e9f6 in albert::detail::Query::~Query() () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libalbert.so.34.0

QT max verbose debug logging

08:44:59 [info:albert] Activating action docs > Python_3Python API > Python_3Python API (Documentation > Python API > Open documentation) 
08:44:59 [debg:albert] Storing activation…
08:44:59 [debg:albert] Fetching usage scores…
08:44:59 [debg:albert] Open URL 'file:///home/devdave/.cache/albert/docs/trampoline.html'
08:44:59 [debg:albert] Busy wait on query: #13

Still working on getting the source to build so I can get the symbols in a stack trace.

[FedjaMocnik]

Same issue. Ubuntu 24.04

[ManuelSchneid3r]

@devdave there are debug symbol packages. their name depends on the platform. albert-debgsym on ubuntu. You can find the others here https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/manuelschneid3r/xUbuntu_25.10/amd64/

[devdave]

@ManuelSchneid3r I got everything setup so I can build albert locally. Off topic, wow has C++ changed substantially since I last worked with it ~30 years ago.

On topic, it seems like a fix would be to disable the .waitForFinished as Qt6 has no mechanism to actually kill QConcurrent workers. Definitely not perfect, more like a long term band-aid.

[ManuelSchneid3r]

Please continue discussion here.

.waitForFinished

This is a hard requirement. Query has to be alive for the entire thread runtime. This could be changed to actually make the thread routine not depending on the query, but the query itself again locks the plugins which may be unloaded. So even if it were functional query handing the handler could be destroyed while handling a query.

Atm its difficult to tell why exactly the waitForFinished blocks forever. I just noticed that disabling the python plugin makes this problem vanish.