My RSS news feeds have disappeared
 

Hi,

I have a N800 with the OS 2007 version 3.2007.10-7with a kernel 2.6.28-omapl1 which I have owned for several months now and used daily with no problems.

This morning I turned it on and all the RSS news feeds had disappeared from the RSS Feed Reader. Instead, all I had is an emply field with a "(no posts)" warning where they usually are displayed and a "Last updated Never" in the menu bar. :confused: :(

I normally subscribe to eight RSS feeds.

Do you have any idea what happened?
Where is the config file for the RSS feed list?
Does this RSS feed loss indicate more problems ahead with harder to fix stuff getting erased?

Thanks for any help,

VS

Re: My RSS news feeds have disappeared
 

This has happened to me twice. I have no idea why or how... Did you make a backup? If so - just restore. You only have to restore settings I think...

Re: My RSS news feeds have disappeared
 

Best thing to do would be to backup your opml file (or is it ompl?). I know I've had them disappear on me once before... I assume it's because the file was corrupted or something along those lines.

Re: My RSS news feeds have disappeared
 

Bug #1110.

Re: My RSS news feeds have disappeared
 

yep - that's the one. So the bug is identified. But what is even more weird is that I did restore my setting as reccommended by Johsua and ziltch, no RSS feeds came back. Nothing changed.
That bothers me even more. Does this mean that the restoring mechanism is also unreliable?!
I have never seen this kind of stuff happening with all the versions of Debian I have used (Sarge, Kanotix, Knoppiux, Ubuntu, DSL and, of course, gNewSense). I mean - config files don't just disappear like that "poff!" and we are gone! I just hope that is is some r/w issue with the RSS news reader and not some issue with the filesystem or something... (though I read somewhere that N800 actually has a journalling filesystem).
Guys - what is your experience with the backup/restore utility? Is this one buggy too, or just it just not backup all the settings?

Re: My RSS news feeds have disappeared
 

File don't disappear on the N800 either, don't worry.

What happened here, and it happened to me too, is that the RSS reader opens the opml file for reading/writing, and writes it back later. If in the meanwhile a reboot occurs, the file is empty and all is gone. Of course this is a hefty bug in the RSS reader.

I have not checked it, but the backup utility may not save everything. Better do it by hand, from a shell tar /home/user to mmc1.

Re: My RSS news feeds have disappeared
 

Yep - agreed. I then also backup mmc1 to my other computers just in case.

Cheers!

Re: My RSS news feeds have disappeared
 

This is the kind of detail that would be useful in the bug report.... :)

Re: My RSS news feeds have disappeared
 

the bug report already has it :-)

Re: My RSS news feeds have disappeared
 

I can't find anywhere in that bug which specifically mentions the points raised by Rider in such clear detail - Nokia are apparently unable to reproduce the bug, and Rider has mentioned one possible scenario which isn't detailed in the bug (others have eluded to it though).