460557 - Cannot add specific RSS feeds; hangs on "Verifying RSS feed..."

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Feed Reader, defect)

Description

[Greg Toombs]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092510 Ubuntu/8.04 (hardy) Firefox/3.0.3
Build Identifier: version 2.0.0.17 (20080925)

When I try to add either of these RSS feeds to the Thunderbird aggregator, "Verifying RSS feed..." is shown and does not go away.

http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper_beta/rss/
http://rss.cbc.ca/lineup/topstories.xml

When I cancel subscription, there is a new RSS folder that I cannot delete. For reference, here are some feeds that do work:

http://www.projectcensored.org/feed/
http://www.democracynow.org/democracynow.rss
http://indymedia.org/en/main-features.rss
http://feeds.feedburner.com/Engrishdotcom



This is an upstream report from http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mozilla-thunderbird/+bug/256086 .

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Attempt to subscribe to either of the aforementioned feeds.
2. Watch it fail.

Comment 1

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

Both supposed problematic feeds WFM on Linux 2.0.0.17pre. It seems that the problem is a filesystem issue; for reference, my profile is stored on a NTFS partition.

Do you still fail at subscribing to the feeds?

Comment 2

[Greg Toombs]

After upgrading to intrepid and moving my profile to my home directory on an ext3 partition, everything works. I think it's the fact that it was on a FAT32 partition.

Comment 3

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

->WFM then

Comment 4

[john.haan]

Subscribing to a feed with a very long URL / name seems to reproduce the issue on Vista x64.