I have started from scratch, made a new install in a different directory, and some errors have disappeared, but I still get errors when the bot tries to put the changes. I can't successfully make any changes at all. At first I thought it was the change I made to the family file (appended email below), but it's persisting without that change, on the new installation, so I I suspect that's a coincidence.
So, the errors I'm getting are of this form:
A) When I try to run redirect.py
$ python redirect.py double -always Checked for running processes. 1 processes currently running, including the current process. Retrieving special page...
There's a long wait and then:
maximum recursion depth exceeded in cmp WARNING: Could not open ' http://www.appropedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&meta=userinfo&uipro...'. Maybe the server or your connection is down. Retrying in 1 minutes... maximum recursion depth exceeded in cmp WARNING: Could not open ' http://www.appropedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&meta=userinfo&uipro...'. Maybe the server or your connection is down. Retrying in 2 minutes... maximum recursion depth exceeded in cmp WARNING: Could not open ' http://www.appropedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&meta=userinfo&uipro...'. Maybe the server or your connection is down. Retrying in 4 minutes...
B) When I run replace.py, everything goes fine during the yes
(regardless of where I use -xml: or -file:) so it's clearly able to access the server.
But when it tries to put the pages, I get the same error:
Waiting for 2 pages to be put. Estimated time remaining: 0:00:20 maximum recursion depth exceeded in cmp WARNING: Could not open ' http://www.appropedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&meta=userinfo&uipro...'. Maybe the server or your connection is down. Retrying in 1 minutes...
etc
I have no idea what to try next.
In case it's relevant, I'm using Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring, with Python version 2.5.2-2.1mdv2008.1
Many thanks, Chris
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 12:00 PM, Chris Watkins chriswaterguy@appropedia.org wrote:
After I changed the family file as suggested, it broke badly. I cannot successfully run a bot and save changes - this is even if I don't hit ctrl+C, of course! :)
I could reinstall the whole thing, go back and redo all the things I've forgotten when I first installed Pywikipedia, but is there a simpler way? I tried packing the latest nightly package into the directory, replacing existing files, but it's still broken.
Often it's a server error, but the site is running fine. Other commands access the server, but they all break when it comes to trying to put the changes. (Yes, I run "python login.py" before i start.)
Thanks in advance, and for all the help so far.
Chris
E.g. 1: using a file list and the "-always" parameter:
$ python replace.py -excepttext:"[[appropriate technology organizations" -excepttext:"appropriate technology organizations]]" "appropriate technology organizations" "[[appropriate technology organizations]]" -always -file:files1.txt
This gives:
No changes were necessary in [[Ashden Awards]] No changes were necessary in [[Category:Microhydro]]
<snip>
Clay Brick and Tile Moulding Equipment 2 <<<
- The activities of BASIN are divided between four leading European,
non-profit appropriate technology organizations, each of which covers a separate specialized subject area, in order to provide more qualified expertise with greater efficiency.
- The activities of BASIN are divided between four leading European,
non-profit [[appropriate technology organizations]], each of which covers a separate specialized subject area, in order to provide more qualified expertise with greater efficiency.
Then it stops for a while, before giving this message:
maximum recursion depth exceeded in cmp WARNING: Could not open ' http://www.appropedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&meta=userinfo&uipro...'. Maybe the server or your connection is down. Retrying in 1 minutes... maximum recursion depth exceeded in cmp WARNING: Could not open ' http://www.appropedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&meta=userinfo&uipro...'. Maybe the server or your connection is down. Retrying in 2 minutes...
...and so on.
E.g. 2: using replace.py with the -xml parameter and manually selecting which changes to accept, I get a message like this:
Waiting for 3 pages to be put. Estimated time remaining: 0:00:30 There are 3 pages remaining in the queue. Estimated time remaining: 0:00:30
But it doesn't actually make any changes - it either hangs there, or say it can't find the server, and keeps retrying until I stop it (after several hours in one case)
Error messages occur during the running of replace.py as well, but don't actually stop it running.
E.g. 3: redirect.py doesn't work either - the second part of the error about the server being down is the same as above:
$ python redirect.py double -always Checked for running processes. 1 processes currently running, including the current process. Retrieving special page... maximum recursion depth exceeded in cmp WARNING: Could not open ' http://www.appropedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&meta=userinfo&uipro...'. Maybe the server or your connection is down. Retrying in 1 minutes...
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 11:07 PM, Chris Watkins < chriswaterguy@appropedia.org> wrote:
Sorry, only just saw that you'd already replied with a solution. Thanks Bryan - I'm trying it out.
Chris
Bryan wrote:
After looking in the code, you should add:
def api_address(self): raise NotImplementedError
in your family file.
We should probably try to detect blocks on non api wikis as well.
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 10:59 PM, Chris Watkins < chriswaterguy@appropedia.org> wrote:
yes - it was configured for nice simple urls. I don't have a good understanding of this issue.
So is this error something I just have to live with (I really hope not!) or is there a way around it?
Thanks, Chris
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