Quote:
Originally Posted by mdavidson
Unhandled exception with fetch news:
Mac OSX 10.5.4, calibre b11
Fetching news fails with the following (tried BBC and NASA, both gave same error):
unpack requires a string argument of length 6
Detailed traceback:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre/gui2/__init__.pyo", line 130, in dispatch
File "/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/Resources/main.py", line 785, in news_fetched
File "/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/Resources/main.py", line 481, in _add_books
File "calibre/ebooks/metadata/meta.pyo", line 75, in get_metadata
File "/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.5/site-packages.zip/calibre/ebooks/lrf/meta.py", line 223, in get_metadata
File "/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.5/site-packages.zip/calibre/ebooks/lrf/meta.py", line 440, in __init__
File "/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.5/site-packages.zip/calibre/ebooks/lrf/meta.py", line 64, in __get__
File "/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.5/site-packages.zip/calibre/ebooks/lrf/meta.py", line 312, in restore_pos
File "/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.5/site-packages.zip/calibre/ebooks/lrf/meta.py", line 472, in unpack
File "struct.pyo", line 87, in unpack
error: unpack requires a string argument of length 6
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There is a bug in the www library calibre uses that causes it to not close open connections. Try increasing the number of allowed file open handles. At a terminal:
Code:
ulimit -n 2000 && calibre