I have been asked to look at a site (7.15) which has been using Aggregator to summarize an RSS feed, but suddenly stopped displaying any content. At first it seemed the Block had vanished, but it is still in the correct place. Instead it seems Aggregator simply cannot find any RSS items to display.

This is erroneous, however, since the RSS feed clearly has recent content for dissemination:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/UnitedChurchRecentUpdates?format=xml

The Aggregator config on the Drupal site in question is set to fire every 24 hours, and it has been. I can even manually launch it ("update items") and it comes back to me saying it has updated but has 0 items. It is set to display 5 news items in the block. I've tried changing the discard period to "Never" and the trimmed description limit to "Unlimited", but neither has any effect. I've also tried disabling and re-enabling the Aggregator module.

I can't find anything helpful in the Recent Log Messages or in the Apache logs for the site.

Any help greatly appreciated.

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nerdcore’s picture

Category: bug » feature

Could we possibly change the error displaying capabilities of Aggregator so that an error such as

The feed from United Church Recent Updates seems to be broken, because of error "-110 Connection timed out".

is displayed in a colour other than green? ;)

I have resolved my issue (A poorly configured ipv6 address on the server being favoured over the working ipv4 connection), but I didn't even see this message at first because it seemed to be a Happy Green message...

Anonymous’s picture

Version: 7.15 » 8.x-dev

Feature requests belong in the working branch for the next major version.

lokapujya’s picture

Issue summary: View changes
Priority: Normal » Minor
Status: Active » Needs review
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1005 bytes

Seems reasonable that the displayed message should be an error

ParisLiakos’s picture

Category: Feature request » Bug report

thanks
how about a warning though, since thats what watchdog registers the log message as well?

lokapujya’s picture

FileSize
1007 bytes

Good point.

ParisLiakos’s picture

Title: Aggregator finds 0 items. » Wrong type of message in aggregator

thank you!

ParisLiakos’s picture

Status: Needs review » Reviewed & tested by the community
Dries’s picture

Good suggestion. Committed to 8.x. Thank you.

  • Dries committed f704032 on 8.x
    Issue #1803760 by lokapujya: Fixed Wrong type of message in aggregator.
    
ParisLiakos’s picture

Status: Reviewed & tested by the community » Fixed

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed - issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.