Daemon working correctly but signal-curses not showing contacts

[riazm]

I think I have set up the signal-cli daemon correctly but when i run main.py I do not get any of my contacts loaded. I captured one log where my friend sent me a message but it does not show up..

r@belatinous:~/signal-curses$ cat sc.log
2018-10-16 08:57:11 args Namespace(bus='session', configDir='/home/r/.config/signal', phone='+REDACT')
2018-10-16 08:57:11 main None
2018-10-16 08:57:11 daemon thread
2018-10-16 08:57:11 message thread
2018-10-16 08:57:11 contacts:  0
2018-10-16 08:57:11 daemon popen
2018-10-16 08:57:11 waiting for (session) dbus...
2018-10-16 08:57:11 start forms {'MAIN': <__main__.SelectForm object at 0x7f8f25561ac8>, 'APP': <__main__.AppForm object at 0x7f8f245057b8>}
2018-10-16 08:57:15 got dbus
2018-10-16 08:57:25 line: {"envelope":{"source":"+REDACT","sourceDevice":2,"relay":null,"timestamp":1539680232979,"isReceipt":false,"dataMessage":{"timestamp":1539680232979,"message":"I got home and jacob had made beetroot noodles","expiresInSeconds":0,"attachments":[],"groupInfo":null},"syncMessage":null,"callMessage":null}}

2018-10-16 08:57:25 handleDaemonLine {"envelope":{"source":"+REDACT","sourceDevice":2,"relay":null,"timestamp":1539680232979,"isReceipt":false,"dataMessage":{"timestamp":1539680232979,"message":"I got home and jacob had made beetroot noodles","expiresInSeconds":0,"attachments":[],"groupInfo":null},"syncMessage":null,"callMessage":null}}

2018-10-16 08:57:25 should_notify None +REDACT +REDACT I got home and jacob had made beetroot noodles
2018-10-16 08:57:25 notifying line
2018-10-16 08:57:35 SIGINT
2018-10-16 08:57:35 queue item {'exit': 1}
2018-10-16 08:57:35 message thread exit
r@belatinous:~/signal-curses$ ls
daemon.log  main.py  README.md  requirements.txt  sc.log  screenshots
r@belatinous:~/signal-curses$ cat daemon.log 
{"envelope":{"source":"+REDACT","sourceDevice":2,"relay":null,"timestamp":1539680232979,"isReceipt":false,"dataMessage":{"timestamp":1539680232979,"message":"I got home and jacob had made beetroot noodles","expiresInSeconds":0,"attachments":[],"groupInfo":null},"syncMessage":null,"callMessage":null}}

I have one group partially loaded but if I try to send a message i it I get an error that the 'group does not exist' scrolling around curses, log below

2018-10-16 09:02:36 args Namespace(bus='session', configDir='/home/r/.config/signal', phone='+REDACT')
2018-10-16 09:02:36 main None
2018-10-16 09:02:36 daemon thread
2018-10-16 09:02:36 message thread
2018-10-16 09:02:36 contacts:  0
2018-10-16 09:02:36 daemon popen
2018-10-16 09:02:36 start forms {'MAIN': <__main__.SelectForm object at 0x7fb0318b3b00>, 'APP': <__main__.AppForm object at 0x7fb030056390>}
2018-10-16 09:02:36 waiting for (session) dbus...
2018-10-16 09:02:40 got dbus
2018-10-16 09:02:40 3
2018-10-16 09:02:40 {'groupId': 'ZxUv6bnPu7C7oTYcpnb1Bw==', 'name': 'decentralised dads', 'members': ['REDACT'], 'color': None, 'active': False}
2018-10-16 09:02:40 new state: state type: group name: decentralised dads numbers: REDACT
2018-10-16 09:02:40 mloop forms {'MAIN': <__main__.SelectForm object at 0x7fb0318b3b00>, 'APP': <__main__.AppForm object at 0x7fb030056390>}
2018-10-16 09:02:44 handleEnter 10 hello 1539680564240
2018-10-16 09:02:44 markAsEnvelope: {"envelope": {"timestamp": 1539680564240, "source": "+REDACT", "dataMessage": {"timestamp": 1539680564240, "message": "hello"}}} (sending)
2018-10-16 09:02:44 markAs success: ('2018-10-16 09:02:44', 'You (REDACT)', 'hello')
2018-10-16 09:02:44 mark:  ('2018-10-16 09:02:44', 'You (+REDACT)', 'hello') as:  (sending)
2018-10-16 09:02:44 sendHandler hello 1539680564240
2018-10-16 09:02:44 queue item {'state': <__main__.AppState object at 0x7fb0318a1ef0>, 'currentSend': <__main__.CurrentSend object at 0x7fb030092ef0>}
2018-10-16 09:02:44 send_message group ZxUv6bnPu7C7oTYcpnb1Bw== hello
2018-10-16 09:02:44 group id: ZxUv6bnPu7C7oTYcpnb1Bw==  b64: b'WnhVdjZiblB1N0M3b1RZY3BuYjFCdz09'
2018-10-16 09:02:56 SIGINT
2018-10-16 09:02:56 daemon exit

The daemon.log doesn't appear to have updated after this, it still has the message about beetroot noodles

[riazm]

It appears that something is up with the json in my data file being read in so I guess this is an issue with signal-cli not the signal-curses?

  },
    "contactStore": {
        "contacts": []
    },

[jwoglom]

Sounds like it... If for some reason signal-cli doesn't load your contacts and save them in the json file, then when we try and read them in, signal-curses will run into problems. I recall signal-cli not generating this part of the file until the daemon has run once... And since in signal-curses we start the daemon and load the UI at the same time (which reads the json) my thought is that you'll need to run `signal-cli --daemon` on it's own first, give it a minute to grab all of the data it needs, then close and start signal-cli.

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[riazm]

I tried this and it still broke, the problem is definitely in signal-cli though. Ithink it is AsamK/signal-cli#123 this issue

[riazm]

Anyway, i tried to hack aronud this by just manually adding
{ "name" : "myFrend", "number" : "+44friend" } entries to the contactstore which half worked, but i lose chat history if i tab away, and if i read a message on another device (my phone, desktop client) it doesn't show up in the curses client (and no other messages do)

have you got any ideas for further hacking to fix this? I can send messages fine now!

[riazm]

eugh i just checked sc.log (forgot about it) and found a bunch of

2018-12-26 22:36:09 handleDaemonLine {"error":{"message":"org.whispersystems.libsignal.InvalidMessageException: No valid sessions."},"envelope":{"source":"+REDACTED","sourceDevice":6,"relay":null,"timestamp":1545863768700,"isReceipt":false,"dataMessage":null,"syncMessage":null,"callMessage":null}}

with the source both as me and +44friend so I'm guessing this once again isn't really your issue and is something to do with weird daemon behaviour. Ohhhh well. It's really frustrating because if I just sit looking at the receive coming in from my dbus I get all the messages, can send any messages I want if I just use phone numbers, but for whatever reason when i try to string it together, everything goes to hell.

[elsehow]

I'm also experiencing this issue.