Those of you who visit Planet Antispam may have noticed that it hadn’t been updating in a few days. Somehow or other, the Planet software had corrupted its cache, and was dying with this error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "planet.py", line 167, in ?
main()
File "planet.py", line 160, in main
my_planet.run(planet_name, planet_link, template_files, offline)
File "/home/planet/antispam/planet-2.0/planet/__init__.py", line 240, in run
channel = Channel(self, feed_url)
File "/home/planet/antispam/planet-2.0/planet/__init__.py", line 527, in __init__
self.cache_read_entries()
File "/home/planet/antispam/planet-2.0/planet/__init__.py", line 569, in cache_read_entries
item = NewsItem(self, key)
File "/home/planet/antispam/planet-2.0/planet/__init__.py", line 845, in __init__
self.cache_read()
File "/home/planet/antispam/planet-2.0/planet/cache.py", line 74, in cache_read
self._type[key] = self._cache[cache_key + " type"]
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/bsddb/__init__.py", line 116, in __getitem__
return self.db[key]
KeyError: 'tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9336495.post-117499582419244211 feedburner_origlink type'
Ah, Berkeley DB, always good for the infrequent inscrutable, yet fatal, error. A wipe of the contents of the cache directory, and it seems to be working again.
Unfortunately, I had to drop the RSS feed for Aunty Spam; it seems the domain has lapsed, and I can’t seem to find an RSS feed that contains just the spam-related Aunty Spam posts any more.