collections command fails with message: Something went really wrong

[rjekker]

ISSUE TYPE

• Bug Report

SUMMARY

I've installed ansible-navigator using pipx on my Mac. When running `ansible-navigator collections', it fails with the message:

  humph. Something went really wrong while cataloging collections.

     Details have been added to the log file
     [HINT] Please log an issue about this one, it shouldn't have happened

After pressing enter, it then says:

  humph. no collections were found in the following paths:

     [HINT] Try installing some or try a different execution environment

I do have several collections installed in my ~/.ansible folder.

There seems to be a problem reading a python file; see the log below.

ANSIBLE-NAVIGATOR VERSION

ansible-navigator 24.2.0

CONFIGURATION

---

ansible-navigator:
   execution-environment:
     enabled: False

LOG FILE

2024-03-21T11:45:29.782689+00:00 ERROR 'ansible_navigator.actions.collections._run_runner' /opt/homebrew/Cellar/[email protected]/3.12.2_1/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/Resources/Python.app/Contents/MacOS/Python: can't open file '/Users/reindert/.cache/ansible-navigator/catalog_collections.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory

2024-03-21T11:45:30.459215+00:00 ERROR 'ansible_navigator.actions.collections._parse' Unable to extract collection json from stdout

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

pipx install ansible-core ansible-navigator
ansible-navigator collections

EXPECTED RESULTS

Be able to browse collections

ACTUAL RESULTS

See description above

[rjekker]

Fix some formatting; removed some unnecessary extra text