Error "Failed to decode JSON: invalid character 'b' looking for beginning of value" on startup (Ubuntu 20.04)

[ristomatti]

The app crashes on startup on my Ubuntu 20.04 based OS:

$ lazyjournal
2024/12/26 23:01:04 Failed to decode JSON: invalid character 'b' looking for beginning of value

I couldn't use the official release binary due to Ubuntu 20.04's ancient GLIBC version, so I've installed the package via go install github.com/Lifailon/lazyjournal. I also tried building from source as instructed on the README, but got the same result. Running with sudo did not make a difference either.

Also after the error, my terminal rendering breaks, e.g.

$ ls /dev/input      
by-id    event11  event16  event20  event25   event26   event3   event6  mouse0  mouse5
                                                                                       by-path  event12  event17  event21  event256  event260  event30  event7  mouse1  mouse6
                                                                           event0   event13  event18  event22  event257  event27   event31  event8  mouse2  mouse7

Running reset fixes this though.

[Lifailon]

When running from source code, everything works without errors?

I'll try to find out what this error might be related to and give feedback in a few days.