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

[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.