[markfiend]

I'm running xbmc on an arch linux box and my linux-fu is pretty good, but i'm banging my head against a wall with this one.

Log file:
http://xbmclogs.com/show.php?id=299368

I haven't got any proxy set up, I've tried wget on the url (see line 221) http://thetvdb.com/api/GetSeries.php?ser...anguage=en directly and it works.

It's not just thetvdb, it fails in the same way with imdb too.

Help?

[markfiend]

youtube and bbc iPlayer addons are also failing. Must be a connectivity issue. But I can ssh into the mahine xbmc is running on fine...

[yochaigal]

I think I'm having the same issue; for the last few days scanning always stops with the same "Unable to connect" error.
My log looks pretty much exactly like yours. I've disabled ipv6 (on the kernel and the XML file). I'm on Google DNS.
Would love to figure out why this is.

[achilleas.k]

Same issue here. I was using the moviedb scraper and it kept timing out

Code:

17:35:07 T:140498108675840   ERROR: CCurlFile::FillBuffer - Failed: Timeout was reached(28)
17:35:07 T:140498108675840   ERROR: CCurlFile::CReadState::Connect, didn't get any data from stream.
17:35:07 T:140498108675840   ERROR: Run: Unable to parse web site

I then switched to the Universal Movie Scraper and set all fields and search to use IMDB. During the full rescan I noticed that only some movies were timing out. I just now realised that movies that were successfully added to the library are the ones that have .nfo files in their directories (from an old export). Most (not sure if all, haven't checked entire library) newer items that don't contain .nfo files get the timeout. The same three lines that I pasted above, plus the "Unable to connect to remote server" message in XBMC.

EDIT: Connectivity is fine. I am able to curl/wget IMDB and themoviedb pages from the XBMC box, as the xbmc user.
EDIT2: Note sure if important, but since markfiend mentioned it, I too am using Arch Linux.

[markfiend]

I did wonder if it was to do with upgrading from 13.2-3 to 13.2-4 but I downgraded and the problem persisted.

[Martijn]

blame curl update in arch linux (search forum)

[achilleas.k]

Thanks for the info, Martijn!

Relevant Arch forum thread, for reference: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1458972

[markfiend]

Fixed it for me too thank you so much Martijn