Empty formula lists

[nlap]

Occasionally the formula lists for some or all of the categories (installed, outdated, etc) will be empty, or they might be populated when the app starts, but disappear later - usually after running an homebrew update.

brew is working fine on my command line. I traced around a bit, and sometimes the return string for a brew task call will be empty (or the 'task finished at..' string), where it shouldn't be. See attached breakpoint during the brew outdated --verbose call.

Haven't been able to find the root cause, but might be related to how async tasks are handled? Opening this issue in case anyone else is seeing this.

[brunophilipe]

This could be a race condition. I guess a palliative fix would be running the task again if the return string is empty. What do you think?

[jameslbrown]

I get this all the time too.

[ottobackwards]

Same here. It is never when the app first opens. It is usually after I finish installing updates. When I dismiss the update dialog, I'll get the empty formulae.

[mttgdd]

I sometimes have empty formulae, taps, etc (everything) when the app first opens. Restarting the app usually fixes it.