Jaunty - Liferea slow when updating/navigating feeds

[abhiroopb]

I've been a heavy user of liferea for a year or so. Its been a great program for RSS!

Unfortunately after upgrading to Jaunty (and ext4), liferea (1.4.26) is PAINFULLY slow, hanging all the time (window greys out). Is this a known issue?

[billgoldberg]

I've been a heavy user of liferea for a year or so. Its been a great program for RSS!

Unfortunately after upgrading to Jaunty (and ext4), liferea (1.4.26) is PAINFULLY slow, hanging all the time (window greys out). Is this a known issue?

No idea.

Start it from the terminal and look if it gives any error messages.

If it gives error messages, create a launchpad bug report or something.

You could always manually install an older version if it's bothering you that much, or use another rss feed reader.

[abhiroopb]

I noticed that the bug has been reported...

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ea/+bug/290666
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ea/+bug/335471

Any suggestions for other RSS readers?

[iamnotthemessiah]

same issue here. tried all the rrs readers on gnomefiles but none comes close to liferea. 'straw' perhaps is the one ill migrate to cos liferea cant be used as it is now

[abhiroopb]

straw doesn't seem to support folders very well. I tried akregator and apart from it being a big install it seemed to re-update my feeds every time it started, downloading things I'd already read. Shame that liferea is broken

[borislevalle]

I love almost everything about Ubuntu, but somehow readers are a week point. I had the same problem with Akregator as abhiroopb. Liferea is better, but getting slower. I hope we'll get something like RSSOwl for Linux one day.

[abhiroopb]

RSSOwl seems to work in linux (as it is a java app). Still not as clean as liferea, but it definitely a good replacement for the moment.

[abhiroopb]

This is a temporary fix:

enter the following in a terminal:

cd /usr/src
mkdir libfsync
sudo gedit libfsync.c

Enter the following into the text file:

int fsync (int fd) {
 return 0;
}

Again in the terminal:

sudo gcc -Wall libfsync.c -o libfsync.so -shared -fPIC -Wl,-soname,libfsync.so
sudo gedit /usr/bin/liferea

Enter the following into the SECOND LINE of the text file:

export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/src/libfsync/libfsync.so

No idea what it does, but it was suggested in the launchpud page and it worked for me (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ea/+bug/333718).

[natrium]

worked for me! thanx!

[nischg]

Things with Liferea 1.5.15 seem to be a little different. I can't edit the /usr/bin/liferea file.

Does anyone know what file has to be edited in this version?