* Frank Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-03-05 01:41]:
> I was using pyhton 2.3.5-3sarge1 and have now upgraded to 2.3-5-5.
I'll try that tomorrow or so and see whether there might be an
incompatibilty.
> But I found the problem: feeds.dat had become corrupted somehow.
Well, we could at least print a nicer error message, e.g. via the
patch below. But let me check with a 2.3.5-3sarge1 -> 2.3.5-5.
upgrade first.
--- /usr/share/rss2email/rss2email.py~ 2006-03-05 03:28:27.000000000 +0000
+++ /usr/share/rss2email/rss2email.py 2006-03-05 03:29:26.000000000 +0000
@@ -253,7 +253,11 @@
except IOError, e:
print "Feedfile could not be opened: %s" % e
sys.exit(1)
- feeds = pickle.load(feedfileObject)
+ try:
+ feeds = pickle.load(feedfileObject)
+ except EOFError:
+ print "Feedfile could not be opened: it appears to have been
corrupted"
+ sys.exit(1)
if lock:
fcntl.flock(feedfileObject.fileno(), fcntl.LOCK_EX)
#HACK: to deal with lock caching
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Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/
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