[mikebw]

The Boston Globe recipe by darkom was working fine but now is not. This may have something to do with an upgrade of the underlying platform from Ubuntu 14.04 to 14.10, but I can't be sure. Calibre version is 2.5.0+dfsg-1.

Here's the error:

calibre, version 2.5.0 (linux2, isfrozen: False)
Conversion Error: Failed: Fetch news from The Boston Globe

Fetch news from The Boston Globe
Resolved conversion options
calibre version: 2.5.0
{'asciiize': False,
 'author_sort': None,
 'authors': None,
 'base_font_size': 0,
 'book_producer': None,
 'change_justification': 'original',
 'chapter': None,
 'chapter_mark': 'pagebreak',
 'comments': None,
 'cover': None,
 'debug_pipeline': None,
 'dehyphenate': True,
 'delete_blank_paragraphs': True,
 'disable_font_rescaling': False,
 'dont_compress': False,
 'dont_download_recipe': False,
 'duplicate_links_in_toc': False,
 'embed_all_fonts': False,
 'embed_font_family': None,
 'enable_heuristics': False,
 'expand_css': False,
 'extra_css': None,
 'extract_to': None,
 'filter_css': None,
 'fix_indents': True,
 'font_size_mapping': None,
 'format_scene_breaks': True,
 'html_unwrap_factor': 0.4,
 'input_encoding': None,
 'input_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.InputProfile object at 0x7ff622365510>,
 'insert_blank_line': False,
 'insert_blank_line_size': 0.5,
 'insert_metadata': False,
 'isbn': None,
 'italicize_common_cases': True,
 'keep_ligatures': False,
 'language': None,
 'level1_toc': None,
 'level2_toc': None,
 'level3_toc': None,
 'line_height': 0,
 'linearize_tables': False,
 'lrf': False,
 'margin_bottom': 5.0,
 'margin_left': 5.0,
 'margin_right': 5.0,
 'margin_top': 5.0,
 'markup_chapter_headings': True,
 'max_toc_links': 50,
 'minimum_line_height': 120.0,
 'mobi_file_type': 'old',
 'mobi_ignore_margins': False,
 'mobi_keep_original_images': False,
 'mobi_toc_at_start': False,
 'no_chapters_in_toc': False,
 'no_inline_navbars': True,
 'no_inline_toc': False,
 'output_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.KindleFireOutput object at 0x7ff622365c10>,
 'page_breaks_before': None,
 'personal_doc': '[PDOC]',
 'prefer_author_sort': False,
 'prefer_metadata_cover': False,
 'pretty_print': False,
 'pubdate': None,
 'publisher': None,
 'rating': None,
 'read_metadata_from_opf': None,
 'remove_fake_margins': True,
 'remove_first_image': False,
 'remove_paragraph_spacing': False,
 'remove_paragraph_spacing_indent_size': 1.5,
 'renumber_headings': True,
 'replace_scene_breaks': '',
 'search_replace': None,
 'series': None,
 'series_index': None,
 'share_not_sync': False,
 'smarten_punctuation': False,
 'sr1_replace': '',
 'sr1_search': '',
 'sr2_replace': '',
 'sr2_search': '',
 'sr3_replace': '',
 'sr3_search': '',
 'start_reading_at': None,
 'subset_embedded_fonts': False,
 'tags': None,
 'test': False,
 'timestamp': None,
 'title': None,
 'title_sort': None,
 'toc_filter': None,
 'toc_threshold': 6,
 'toc_title': None,
 'unsmarten_punctuation': False,
 'unwrap_lines': True,
 'use_auto_toc': False,
 'verbose': 2}
InputFormatPlugin: Recipe Input running
Using custom recipe
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/calibre-parallel", line 20, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/utils/ipc/worker.py", line 195, in main
    result = func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/gui2/convert/gui_conversion.py", line 25, in gui_convert
    plumber.run()
  File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/ebooks/conversion/plumber.py", line 1041, in run
    accelerators, tdir)
  File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/customize/conversion.py", line 241, in __call__
    log, accelerators)
  File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/ebooks/conversion/plugins/recipe_input.py", line 116, in convert
    ro = recipe(opts, log, self.report_progress)
  File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/web/feeds/news.py", line 880, in __init__
    raise ValueError(_('The "%s" recipe needs a username and password.')%self.title)
ValueError: The "Boston Globe Subscription" recipe needs a username and password.
Error in sys.excepthook:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apport_python_hook.py", line 112, in apport_excepthook
    if pr.check_ignored():
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apport/report.py", line 980, in check_ignored
    dom = self._get_ignore_dom()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apport/report.py", line 921, in _get_ignore_dom
    dom = xml.dom.getDOMImplementation().createDocument(None, 'apport', None)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/cssutils/__init__.py", line 166, in createDocument
    raise NotImplementedError
NotImplementedError

Original exception was:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/calibre-parallel", line 20, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/utils/ipc/worker.py", line 195, in main
    result = func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/gui2/convert/gui_conversion.py", line 25, in gui_convert
    plumber.run()
  File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/ebooks/conversion/plumber.py", line 1041, in run
    accelerators, tdir)
  File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/customize/conversion.py", line 241, in __call__
    log, accelerators)
  File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/ebooks/conversion/plugins/recipe_input.py", line 116, in convert
    ro = recipe(opts, log, self.report_progress)
  File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/web/feeds/news.py", line 880, in __init__
    raise ValueError(_('The "%s" recipe needs a username and password.')%self.title)
ValueError: The "Boston Globe Subscription" recipe needs a username and password.