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The redis dependency should be replaced with valkey as redis is no longer going to be supported in tree (the current version of redis is currently outdated to, so a security risk).

Should be a drop-in replacement.

More info here: https://archlinux.org/news/valkey-to-replace-redis-in-the-extra-repository/

@HLFH thanks for the fixes I updated the package to the latest release (right now searxng-git-r8519.7b4612e-1) and it worked, maybe my issue had something to do with SEARXNG_SETTINGS_PATH or not having redis installed

@vech I cannot reproduce your bug.

Please update to the latest release searxng-git r8494.5986629-4 with pikaur -Syu.
And to update regularly this -git VCS package, please use pikaur -Syu --devel --needed.

@vech Currently looking at your error SXNGAnswerer is not implemented.

@krs @CountMurphy @stef204 The pkgver bug has been fixed, it seems their git versioning has changed.
I have added redis as a dependency: it is now required by searx.limiter.
Please update the redis password in settings.yml:

redis:
  url: unix:///run/redis/redis.sock?password=yourpassword&db=1 # change the password value!

Please check the redis db 1 is empty.
I have set as db 1 because redis db 0 is often used (for example for the Nextcloud app).
The SEARXNG_SETTINGS_PATH is now correctly assigned in build() with export instead of local.

searxng user has been added to the redis group.

In addition to the pkgver issue it now also seems like the python executable process doesn't read the SEARXNG_SETTINGS_PATH env var that is set in the build() section, because it tries to touch the actual file in /etc/searxng/settings.yml and gets a permission denied error.

If I put SEARXNG_SETTINGS_PATH="../settings.yml" in front of both of the python commands in the build() section it does read it properly but seems like there should be a better way to set that.

I think I found the issue. The PKGBUILD is trying to git the package version from the git repo using

git describe --long | sed 's/\([^-]*-g\)/r\1/;s/v//;s/-/./g'

This line currently returns nothing. You could fix that by replacing that line with:

git describe --long --always | sed 's/\([^-]*-g\)/r\1/;s/v//;s/-/./g'

but the version scheme would turn out different than it has been

Same error here as @stef204

==> Starting pkgver()...
fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything.
==> ERROR: pkgver is not allowed to be empty.
==> ERROR: pkgver() generated an invalid version:

Hi everyone, Did anyone experience this log after updating this package?

Feb 22 16:03:15 server uwsgi[36288]: *** Operational MODE: single process ***
Feb 22 16:03:15 server uwsgi[36288]: spawned uWSGI master process (pid: 36288)
Feb 22 16:03:15 server uwsgi[36288]: spawned uWSGI worker 1 (pid: 36289, cores: 1)
Feb 22 16:03:15 server uwsgi[36288]: cache sweeper thread enabled
Feb 22 16:03:15 server uwsgi[36288]: spawned uWSGI http 1 (pid: 36291)
Feb 22 16:03:16 server uwsgi[36288]: 2025-02-22 16:03:16,838 CRITICAL:searx.answerers: answerer searx.answerers.statistics.SXNGAnswerer is not implemented
Feb 22 16:03:16 server uwsgi[36288]: Traceback (most recent call last):
Feb 22 16:03:16 server uwsgi[36288]:   File "/var/lib/searxng/.venv/lib/python3.13/site-packages/searx/webapp.py", line 87, in <module>
Feb 22 16:03:16 server uwsgi[36288]:     from searx.webadapter import (
Feb 22 16:03:16 server uwsgi[36288]:     ...<3 lines>...
Feb 22 16:03:16 server uwsgi[36288]:     )
Feb 22 16:03:16 server uwsgi[36288]:   File "/var/lib/searxng/.venv/lib/python3.13/site-packages/searx/webadapter.py", line 8, in <module>
Feb 22 16:03:16 server uwsgi[36288]:     from searx.query import RawTextQuery
Feb 22 16:03:16 server uwsgi[36288]:   File "/var/lib/searxng/.venv/lib/python3.13/site-packages/searx/query.py", line 12, in <module>
Feb 22 16:03:16 server uwsgi[36288]:     from searx.search import EngineRef
Feb 22 16:03:16 server uwsgi[36286]: Sat Feb 22 16:03:16 2025 - [emperor] vassal searxng.ini is ready to accept requests
Feb 22 16:03:16 server uwsgi[36288]:   File "/var/lib/searxng/.venv/lib/python3.13/site-packages/searx/search/__init__.py", line 15, in <module>
Feb 22 16:03:16 server uwsgi[36288]:     import searx.answerers
Feb 22 16:03:16 server uwsgi[36288]:   File "/var/lib/searxng/.venv/lib/python3.13/site-packages/searx/answerers/__init__.py", line 49, in <module>
Feb 22 16:03:16 server uwsgi[36288]:     STORAGE.load_builtins()
Feb 22 16:03:16 server uwsgi[36288]:     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
Feb 22 16:03:16 server uwsgi[36288]:   File "/var/lib/searxng/.venv/lib/python3.13/site-packages/searx/answerers/_core.py", line 110, in load_builtins
Feb 22 16:03:16 server uwsgi[36288]:     self.register_by_fqn(f"searx.answerers.{f.stem}.SXNGAnswerer")
Feb 22 16:03:16 server uwsgi[36288]:     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Feb 22 16:03:16 server uwsgi[36288]:   File "/var/lib/searxng/.venv/lib/python3.13/site-packages/searx/answerers/_core.py", line 132, in register_by_fqn
Feb 22 16:03:16 server uwsgi[36288]:     raise ValueError(msg)
Feb 22 16:03:16 server uwsgi[36288]: ValueError: answerer searx.answerers.statistics.SXNGAnswerer is not implemented
Feb 22 16:03:16 server uwsgi[36288]: unable to load app 0 (mountpoint='') (callable not found or import error)

This happened today when I updated the package and restarted uwsgi@emperor service

Thanks, czardien. Previously I tried what JanH described but it did not work; showing me some error on web pages after systemctl start uwsgi@searxng that I do not recall exactly — internal error or something around the lines. What you wrote down followed by systemctl start uwsgi@searxng worked then.