Planet Venus having issues with Wordpress

[Steve Van Bruwaene]

I just tried running my setup on a different web host I have access to.
Wordpress didn't cause it any problems.  I did have to modify the htmltmpl
code to disable file locking so it could read and write the templates (since
file locking didn't work for some reason), and after that it worked just
fine.

So it looks like my other web host introduced something odd into their
python environment that crashes when it hits something unique in wordpress
feeds.  Is there any way to turn on more debugging somewhere so I can see
what's causing it to crash?

Steve.

On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Steve Van Bruwaene <
steve.vanbruwaene at iteams.ca> wrote:

> When I run this test, it sits for a bit, and then quite, giving me the
> command line again with no output whatsoever.
>
> When I run it against a wordpress 2.3.3 atom feed, I get:
> $ python tests/reconstitute.py http://welcomehome.iteams.ca/feed/atom/
> sh: xsltproc: command not found
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "tests/reconstitute.py", line 85, in <module>
>     os.removedirs(os.path.dirname(work))
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python-2.5/lib/python2.5/os.py", line 179, in
> removedirs
>     rmdir(name)
> OSError: [Errno 39] Directory not empty:
> '/hermes/web01/b1749/pow.itcanada/planet/tests/work'
>
> I get similar results for a blogspot blog.
>
> So it looks like my xsl stuff isn't working, but then I'm not using it in
> my setup anyway.  My setup involves standard planet planet config files and
> templates, but using venus because it has more bug fixes.  (so htmltmpl
> templates.)
>
> Any idea what I can do next?  Is there a way to turn on more debugging info
> so I can see where it's crashing?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Steve.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 7:19 PM, Sam Ruby <rubys at intertwingly.net> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Steve Van Bruwaene
>> <steve.vanbruwaene at iteams.ca> wrote:
>> > I've had planet Venus working great for quite some time now.
>> >
>> > As I'm coming back holidays I noticed that my planet system hasn't been
>> > updated since August 12.  After further investigation, I've found that
>> the
>> > update process crashes if there are any feeds from wordpress.com.  I've
>> > tried both RSS and Atom feeds from wordpress.com, and get the same
>> thing.  I
>> > have one feed from an older installation of wordpress that works fine
>> > though.  I assume from this that Wordpress.com updated something in
>> their
>> > feed system on Aug. 12 that is now breaking planet venus.
>>
>> I'm subscribed to quite a number of wordpress.com feeds (all Atom),
>> and have seen no problems.  One thing you can do to debug this is to
>> try the following from the command line:
>>
>> python tests/reconstitute.py http://davanum.wordpress.com/feed/atom/
>>
>> What this program does, under the covers, is create a temporary
>> config.ini with just one feed in it, processes it normally (fetching,
>> caching, etc), produces a single output: a normalized feed of the
>> results, then cleans up all the temporary files.
>>
>> If there is a consistent problem with wordpress feeds, this should
>> reproduce the problem.  If you can provide the URL of a feed that so
>> fails, I'll try to debug it further.
>>
>> - Sam Ruby
>>
>
>
>
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Steve Van Bruwaene
International Teams Canada
Special Projects
steve.vanbruwaene at iteams.ca
http://www.vanbruwaene.ca
"Developing Resources that help IT Canada be More Effective in its Mission."

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