#783540 network outage causes mysterious exception

Package:
feed2imap
Source:
feed2imap
Submitter:
Antoine Beaupré
Date:
2015-05-04 00:15:08 UTC
Severity:
minor
#783540#5
Date:
2015-04-27 20:06:34 UTC
From:
To:
My gateway lost network access (so my machine didn't notice) recently
and I got a pile of those messages from cron in my inbox:

/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/feed2imap/feed2imap.rb:218:in `join': No live threads left. Deadlock? (fatal)
from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/feed2imap/feed2imap.rb:218:in `block in initialize'
from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/feed2imap/feed2imap.rb:218:in `each'
from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/feed2imap/feed2imap.rb:218:in `initialize'
from /usr/bin/feed2imap:48:in `new'
from /usr/bin/feed2imap:48:in `<main>'

Now I don't expect feed2imap to do anything magical when network goes
out: failing is fine and expected. But "No live threads
left. Deadlock?" is hardly a error message anyone should be expected
to understand.

I would suggest "unreachable host" or something to that effect. :)

Thanks
#783540#10
Date:
2015-05-04 00:12:42 UTC
From:
To:
Hello, thanks for your bug report.

Fair enough. This is actually an artifact of an over-complicated code
for fetching the feeds in multiple threads, and unfortunately it's not
as simple as just providing the correct error message.

I want to rewrite that code at some point; you can expect this to be fixed in
a future new upstream release, but don't hold your breath. ;-)