Boards/Library Manager search not working after updating to 2.3.3

Development Tools IDE 2.x
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Continuing the discussion from Arduino IDE 2.3.3 is now available:

hi,
great update! now it starts much faster on m1 mac.
on the other hand ALL search functions stopped working! library manager, boards manager.. everything..:((
tried reboot, no change.
-mp-

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I am on M3 Mac, all ok for me

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had to downgrade to 2.3.2.
seems like some lindexing issue. it loooks like it is not indexing anything, not sure why.

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One of the benefits of a new release is it acts as a signal to let folks who have a flaw (usually self inflicted) know. The log of the failed statup may give some clues.

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Hi @panaak13. Thanks for your report.

I am unfortunately fortunate in not having any problem using search with Arduino IDE 2.3.3 on my computers so we won't be able to investigate the problem without assistance from you (or another affected user).

If you eventually decide to give Arduino IDE 2.3.3 another try and still experience the problem, please add a reply here on the forum thread to let us know and we'll proceed with the investigation.

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if there is some kind of debug startup, i would be happy to send it. but i cannot see anything.

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Great! There are logs, and this is definitely one of the things I would look at during the investigation. However, I would start by requesting you to provide detailed instructions I can follow to reproduce the problem on my own computer. It might be that my inability to reproduce the fault is only a matter of some difference in my usage that doesn't produce the necessary conditions.

If I can reproduce the fault on my own computer, then I can look at my own logs and won't need to trouble you for yours.

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it seems it started working again.

  1. i installed both 2.3.2 and 2.3.3
  2. i tried logging in as another user
  3. tried 2.3.3 where it didnt work
  4. logged out
  5. logged in as normal user
  6. tried 2.3.3 again and now it works.

mystery.. maybe the indexing was delayed for some reason.. dont know..

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Thanks for the update! Even though it is not as satisfying as finding an explanation for the problem, I guess we can be happy enough that the problem is no longer occurring.

If it comes back later, let us know and we'll see if we are able to investigate further.

Regards, Per

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Hello, just a quick observation. I ran into a similar issue - entering anything into the search edit box did nothing at all to the displayed results. Also noticed that after entering a new board manager URL in Preferences (for ESP32), the IDE showed a popup saying "downloading board manager JSON" (sorry, can't remember the exact wording) and the popup stayed until I closed the IDE. It seems the download worked, though - upon restarting the ESP32 boards were present.

That was the very first time I ran the Arduino IDE at all. After closing and restarting the IDE, the search started working fine.

Just for reference, I'm using the Linux AppImage version 2.3.3. There was no relevant error message on stdout / stderr.