On Fri, June 13, 2008 7:36 pm, Gus Wirth wrote: > Lan Barnes wrote: >> Why does freedb work for a while, then refuse to? Is it me? > [snip] >> Invalid server response or error in parsing, exiting. >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# >> >> >> BTW, I ran it as root superstitiously in case root had some special >> mojo. >> Same results as a safer user. >> >> All this worked on the same machine a week ago. > > Why don't you want to believe the error message? An invalid server > response could mean that the freedb server is not working properly. Do > you have any way of testing the freedb server or seeing what the server > response actually is? A brute force approach would be to use Wireshark > to analyze the packet stream and see what the server is returning. > > Gus > >
Well, trhat certainly is one interpretation of invalid server response. I'll add that to wrong version of cdstatus; incorrectly configured request; and it hates me. But if their server is foobar, what can I, as a data mooch, do? Write them a plaintive email? -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
