Dear Maintainer,

I've just installed searx and ran "searx-run" and got the following error:
anon@anon:/$ searx-run
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/searx-run", line 33, in <module>
    sys.exit(load_entry_point('searx==1.0.0', 'console_scripts', 'searx-run')())
  File "/usr/bin/searx-run", line 25, in importlib_load_entry_point
    return next(matches).load()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/importlib/metadata.py", line 77, in load
    module = import_module(match.group('module'))
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/importlib/__init__.py", line 127, in import_module
    return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1030, in _gcd_import
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1007, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 972, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 228, in _call_with_frames_removed
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1030, in _gcd_import
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1007, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 986, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 680, in _load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 850, in exec_module
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 228, in _call_with_frames_removed
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/searx/__init__.py", line 27, in <module>
    settings, settings_load_message = searx.settings_loader.load_settings()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/searx/settings_loader.py", line 117, in load_settings
    return (load_yaml(default_settings_path),
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/searx/settings_loader.py", line 24, in load_yaml
    with open(file_name, 'r', encoding='utf-8') as settings_yaml:
TypeError: expected str, bytes or os.PathLike object, not NoneType

Hi Anonymousellama21,

Quoting Anonymousellama21 (2022-03-13 04:36:19)
fixed after you copy /usr/share/doc/searx/examples/settings.yml to
/etc/searx/settings.yml and adapt the configuration to your needs.

I also brought up the issue with upstream:
https://github.com/searx/searx/issues/3184

Thanks!

cheers, josch