RSS Returns no Data

[coalzy]

Hi All,

Did a bit of searching on this topic but couldn't find any info on the site. I'm having issues with my DL Station where it is not displaying any data from RSS feeds. I've tried a number of RSS feeds and all display no data in the

Examples of the RSS feeds include
- http://www.synology.com/support/RSS.php?lang=enu
- http://www.ezrss.it/feed/

This seemed to stop working since DSM 3.2 and I am currently DSM 4.0-2198 on a DS210j

Thanks
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[olof]

I've got the same problem (and sorry, no solution), but I might be able to provide some additional data.

I've got the DS411j and everything worked fine until upgrade to 4.0. When I go to RSS feeds in the download station Postgres spawns ~5-6 processes using ~70-90% CPU (all processes in total). After ~5-10 minutes wait the RSS feed fills up, but the Last Updated field never changes from Updating... The entire NAS is extremely slow (due to extensive CPU usage I guess) and the filters never work. When I close the entire tab the CPU usage is stabilized after a while, but it won't download anything. The next time I open the RSS tab it's empty again and takes 5-10 minutes to refresh (even though it never fully refreshes (waited ~40 minutes without result)). I've tried to remove the feeds aswell but that didn't help, adding them slows everything down again.

Is there some way to reinstall download station or do a factory reset of the DS411j? The download station is one of the main reasons for me to use the NAS.

[JoyrexJ9]

Same problem here - RSS feeds don't work at all on DSM 4. They never return any results, I've tried loads of different feeds from different sources, none work

Do they work for anyone?
Is there a log file or somewhere I can look to see what is happening?

[olof]

Ok, I finally got it working. What I had to do was:

• disable ALL packages in the package manager
• turn off the database server
• remove all the feeds (this was not possible before the first two steps at all, but it still took ~20 minutes and multiple tries to remove two feeds)
• power cycle the device (power off, wait, power on)

After this I could add feeds again and now it works perfect, just like before!

[JoyrexJ9]

Just tried that it makes no difference.
I'm not seeing the CPU usage and slow down you were getting. Just nothing happens when you add a RSS URL. Nothing at all.

Just updated the DownloadStation package and it's no different.

This is rubbish

[olof]

Are you sure that the rss url is valid? Does it give you any messages at all? Does the box disappear or does nothing happen? Do you have noscript/adblockers installed in your browser?

edit: if you post the rss url I can try it in mine.

[JoyrexJ9]

Here's a RSS feed
http://www.ezrss.it/search/index.php?sh ... =&mode=rss

It works fine in my browser
I've even downloaded the XML and hosted it on my website to see if that made a difference
No ad blockers, not that they'd made a difference as the DSM will be downloading the URL directly

[JoyrexJ9]

Updated to DSM 4.0-2219 (Latest) and it's still happening

HELP!

[JoyrexJ9]

Ahh ha there seems to be a problem with the database, there's a column missing

May 3 12:50:01 rss.cgi: Failed to run PQexec: ERROR: column "link" of relation "rss_item" does not exist LINE 1: INSERT INTO rss_item (feed_id, title, url, link, date, size)... ^
May 3 12:50:01 rss.cgi: database.c (79) Failed to exec [INSERT INTO rss_item (feed_id, title, url, link, date, size) VALUES (22, 'Game of Thrones 2x5 [720P - HDTV - IMMERSE]', 'http://torrent.zoink.it/Game.of.Thrones.S02E05.720p.HDTV.x264-IMMERSE.[e
May 3 12:50:01 rss.cgi: rss_internal.cpp:809 Failed to exec [INSERT INTO rss_item (feed_id, title, url, link, date, size) VALUES (22, 'Game of Thrones 2x5 [720P - HDTV - IMMERSE]', 'http://torrent.zoink.it/Game.of.Thrones.S02E05.720p.HDTV.x264-IMMER

FIXED IT!

* SSH onto Synology
* Issue command: /usr/syno/pgsql/bin/psql -t -A -U admin -d download
* Execute this SQL: alter table rss_item add column link text;
* Enter \q to leave PSQL

[olof]

My guess is that the system itself is using postgres (since I had the problem with multiple postgres processes using up the cpu when using the rss feed before). It might be possible to do an alter table is you ssh to the nas but I'd rather create an official ticket of it instead. This might lead to a patch for this bug as well. (I asked about adblock and noscript in case they might change the js interface of the download station)'

edit: Oh, you've already fixed it. Nice. At least I was right about postgres What log did you find the output in?

[JoyrexJ9]

The log where I found the errors was /var/log/messages

[Jx7]

Hi,

Almost the same problem for me except that Download station download index.html files for each download.

I'm using Newzbin2 bookmark RSS and it work fine with Sabnzbd for example so I'm sure the RSS URL is OK.

[olof]

If it downloads index.html/login.php etc it's usually because you need to log in to download torrents from that page. DS does not provide a way to send logins, but I wrote a script that can handle that so if you need help, let me know.

[Jx7]

Hi,

In my case this is for newsgroups downloads :/

[olof]

Ah, sorry, I didn't read properly. Don't have any experience with that, good luck.