LJ makes a change...

[theoldwolf]

Just tried to run LJ Archive to save my recent entries and got this:

System.Xml.XmlException: Root element is missing.
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(Exception e)
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ThrowWithoutLineInfo(String res)
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseDocumentContent()
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Read()
at System.Xml.XmlTextReader.Read()
at EF.ljArchive.Engine.Sync.ExportCommentsMeta(OptionsRow or, ILJServer iLJ, SessionGenerateResponse sgr, Int32& serverMaxID, UserMapCollection umc)
at EF.ljArchive.Engine.Sync.ThreadStart()

It's global - all other users are reporting the same error. And, since LJ Archive is an outside, open-source application, the odds that LJ will dig into their code to fix whatever is making the archiver go belly-up are miniscule.

And that was a good application, too.

Hqiz.

Comments

[jamesb]

The DreamWidth crowd have mentioned that cross posting to LJ stopped due to changes made at the LJ end, but they don't know whether it's deliberate or due to their DDoS mitigation efforts. Changing the IP address of the DW server solved the problem, so it looks like LJ may be blocking certain IP addresses. I'll bet this is part of the same problem.

[ccdesan.livejournal.com]

I also suspected that it was part of their efforts to reduce the impact of outside attacks. This program has remained stable for years, but if all of a sudden it's not working, perhaps someone in the open-source community will be able to find a workaround that suits the new circumstances... wish I were smart enough and I'd do it myself...

[stevenroy.livejournal.com]

I noticed earlier today that LJ was acting up. I couldn't bring up some users' pages, because all I'd get was a blank page. Those same users' entries on my "Friends" page were blank, and I'd get either a "File not found" or "entry does not exist" error when I tried to go directly to any of those entries.

"Root element is missing" suggests to me (despite my inexperience with XmlTestReader) that the LJ servers weren't returning an XML file. I suspect it was returning either an error page or a blank page, just like what I was getting earlier. It could be the same problem, in which case it might work now... maybe.

[ccdesan.livejournal.com]

Just tried it. Looked like it was going to work, and then choked when it was generating the comment index. I've written to LJ, without much hope that anything will change, but at least I got my tuppence in.

[torakiyoshi.livejournal.com]

So... does the application save your comments, too? If it does, let me know when it gets fixed, please. :)

-=TK

[ccdesan.livejournal.com]

It saves other people's comments in my entries, but not my comments in other people's journals.

[torakiyoshi.livejournal.com]

That's what I'm looking for is the comments in my entries. The in-house backup function only saves entries, not comments.

-=TK