503 downloading earth wallpaper from Die.net
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Variety |
Won't Fix
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Since a couple of weeks World Sunlight Map doesn't change the wallpaper. I'm using:
Fedora 29
Gnome 3.30.2
Python 3.7
variety 0.7.1
Possible root causes:
1. Rather unlikely that something went wrong in the Python download scripts without major update on Python and without update on variety.
2. Die.net changed something on their static.die.net server, the URL https:/
DEBUG: 2019-01-12 08:21:10,187: profiler() '[Thread-4] -> Entering function: download_one (line 37 in /usr/lib/
INFO: 2019-01-12 08:21:10,187: download_one() 'Downloading world sunlight map from https:/
INFO: 2019-01-12 08:21:10,188: save_locally() 'Origin URL: https:/
INFO: 2019-01-12 08:21:10,190: save_locally() 'Image URL: https:/
INFO: 2019-01-12 08:21:10,191: save_locally() 'Local name: /home/anv/
INFO: 2019-01-12 08:21:10,645: save_locally() 'Download failed from image URL: https:/
DEBUG: 2019-01-12 08:21:10,646: profiler() '[Thread-4] -> Leaving function: download_one_from (line 1018 in /usr/lib/
DEBUG: 2019-01-12 08:21:10,646: profiler() '[Thread-4] -> Entering function: exception (line 1364 in /usr/lib64/
DEBUG: 2019-01-12 08:21:10,646: profiler() '[Thread-4] -> Entering function: <lambda> (line 994 in /usr/lib/
DEBUG: 2019-01-12 08:21:10,646: profiler() '[Thread-4] -> Leaving function: <lambda> (line 994 in /usr/lib/
DEBUG: 2019-01-12 08:21:10,647: profiler() '[Thread-4] -> Entering function: makeRecord (line 1431 in /usr/lib64/
ERROR: 2019-01-12 08:21:10,647: download_thread() 'Could not download wallpaper:'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/
self.
File "/usr/lib/
file = downloader.
File "/usr/lib/
downloaded = self.save_
File "/usr/lib/
raise e
File "/usr/lib/
r = Util.request(
File "/usr/lib/
r.raise_
File "/usr/lib/
raise HTTPError(
requests.
Related with possible workaround: https:/ /github. com/varietywall s/variety/ issues/ 119. It seems that die.net sometimes enables Cloudflare DDoS protection, which essentially blocks all automated clients from downloading things.
Let's consolidate this report with the new issue tracker.