run_server.py cannot find entries

[icebarf]

After setting up LocalAudioYomichan to work without Anki, everything was working as expected.
However, today I noticed that suddenly the offline audio sources were not working.

After starting the server, I get the following log

the log

Initializing database. This make take a while...
(init_db) Adding entries from nhk16...
(make_nhk16_table) Cannot find entries file: /home/ice/.local/share/local-audio-yomichan/nhk16_files/entries.json
(init_db) Adding entries from shinmeikai8...
(AJTJapaneseSource) Cannot find entries file: /home/ice/.local/share/local-audio-yomichan/shinmeikai8_files/index.json
(init_db) Adding entries from forvo...
(init_db) Adding entries from jpod...
(init_db) Adding entries from jpod_alternate...
(init_db) Filling out JMdict forms...
Finished initializing database!
Running local audio server in debug mode...

The path for the nhk16_files and shinmeikai8_files is wrong, it should be looking for those in:
/home/ice/.local/share/local-audio-yomichan/plugin/user_files/

I do not know what could trigger this suddenly where the pathing is broken.

Whenever I stop the server and run it from inside Anki by toggling the add-on, it works just fine without any issues.

Here's how my addons folder looks by the way:

folder structure

drwxr-x--- 1 ice ice 286 Dec  6 18:38 .
drwxr-x--- 1 ice ice  76 Dec 24 19:54 ..
drwxr-x--- 1 ice ice 206 Sep 26 22:50 1156270186
...
drwxr-xr-x 1 ice ice 194 Nov  4 16:31 874215009
lrwxrwxrwx 1 ice ice  50 Dec  6 18:38 LocalAudioDev -> /home/ice/.local/share/local-audio-yomichan/plugin

Please let me know if you need further information from my end. Do note that everything was and it suddenly stopped working. I do not know what could have changed.

[icebarf]

A screenshot of the statistics section of the LocalAudioDev anki add-on

[icebarf]

After messing around for a couple days I realized what was going on:

• Perform a system upgrade
• Something related to, or python itself gets updated
• The dependencies for the virtual environment likely break due to some version mismatch
• Successfully reproduce the above issue

How i fixed it:

• Update the virtual env itself by python3 -m venv --upgrade <LOCATION_TO_VENV>
• Reinstall dependencies by cd local-audio-yomitan, activate your venv, pip install -r requirements.txt
• run the server

Business as usual.

I'll leave the issue open for sometime in case someone is looking for it or may want to add-on to this.

Cheers!