Jaunty - Liferea slow when updating/navigating feeds

[abhiroopb]

should be the same, what error are you getting? (remember to use sudo)

[nischg]

Gedit refuses to open the file saying something about character localization. If I try to edit it using Vi I only see a bunch of strange characters so I'm guessing it's not the file I should be messing around with since it's not a config file for Liferea.

[abhiroopb]

The file is not a config file, its the file that launches the actual liferea program. If there is something wrong with the file, then there may be something wrong with your liferea. I suggest doing a complete re-install (ensuring you do rm /usr/bin/liferea) to make sure that you delete your corrupt file. And then install. Then try running the commands.

[nischg]

Thank you for your help. I'll try your suggestion and edit this post with the results.

[abhiroopb]

No problem.

I'd also like to add that I did not come up with the solution and only found it on the launchpad page, so unfortunately I can't really help if there is a problem with the solution itself.

Good Luck!

[nischg]

Well, this fix works with Liferea 1.4. I had no success with 1.5.15 from the Liferea PPA. The file that has to be edited in this version isn't the same as in 1.4, so I'm sticking with it.

[druellan]

Same problem here. I read in the bug report that perhaps is related to Liferea + ext4. Are you guys all using ext4?

BTW, for a very good reader I can recommend BRIEF Firefox add-on.

[fshapps]

Same problem here. I read in the bug report that perhaps is related to Liferea + ext4. Are you guys all using ext4?

BTW, for a very good reader I can recommend BRIEF Firefox add-on.

Nope. Just plain old ext3.

[rdjse]

Same problem here. I read in the bug report that perhaps is related to Liferea + ext4. Are you guys all using ext4?

BTW, for a very good reader I can recommend BRIEF Firefox add-on.

I have the same (or similar problem). Liferea is trashing my disk whenever I try to read a feed entry. I'm not using EXT4 but EXT2 cause I run Ubuntu on my Netbook.
Everything worked fine in 8.10 but after upgrading to 9.04 Liferea is unusable due to heavy disk access.

I hope it gets fixed soon tho!

[abhiroopb]

I tried my fix on 1.5 and above and it does not work. For now, if you are using 9.04 (whether ext2, ext3 or ext4) I suggest using the fix I have outlined with liferea 1.4