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  • nyx crashes on launch with error "can't rename process to somethign longer than our initial name"

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    Please let me know if this belongs in the stem bugs or if any further information is required.

    I installed nyx through pip on a armhf version of alpine linux (alpine doesn't seem to have nyx in its repos), but nyx immediately crashes on launch with the following error.

    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "/usr/bin/nyx", line 11, in <module>
        load_entry_point('nyx==2.0.4', 'console_scripts', 'nyx')()
      File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/nyx/__init__.py", line 176, in main
        nyx.starter.main()
      File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/stem/util/conf.py", line 289, in wrapped
        return func(*args, config = config, **kwargs)
      File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/nyx/starter.py", line 106, in main
        _set_process_name()
      File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/nyx/starter.py", line 222, in _set_process_name
        stem.util.system.set_process_name('nyx\0%s' % '\0'.join(sys.argv[1:]))
      File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/stem/util/system.py", line 1413, in set_process_name
        _set_argv(process_name)
      File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/stem/util/system.py", line 1440, in _set_argv
        raise IOError("Can't rename process to something longer than our initial name (this would overwrite memory used for the env)")
    OSError: Can't rename process to something longer than our initial name (this would overwrite memory used for the env)
    

    Tor version: 0.3.3.7 (from alpine repo) Python version: 3.6.6 (from alpine repo) Nyx version: 2.0.4 (from pip) Stem version: 1.6.0 (from pip)

    Trac:
    Username: 0b6e5cf835f5887b1129c710613ae45d

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