How about stop hiding important information in logs?

[yamirui]

This isn't even the first time this sort of retarded thing happened but this is the first time I'm going to fucking rant about it because I'm fed up with your low quality garbage.

This piece of shit just gave up on life. Just straight up out of the blue stopped doing the only job it's supposed to do - read the rss feed and pull the torrents into the view so I can maybe download them. That's all I can fucking tell you because that's literally all I fucking know about the fucking problem and you're the ones to blame for it. Did some package update like Qt6 fuck it up? Did I? Did cosmic rays that flipped a bit on my hard drive? Well who fucking knows? Surely not me.

Here's the relevant bit of Execution Log that wasn't even fucking written to a fucking log file because in 2022 we still have problems opening a logfile (in the same directory where you have no issue dumping 13MB of crap, 7.1MB of which is just GeoDB because that's more important than having a functioning log)

4/14/22 8:49 AM - An error occurred while trying to open the log file. Logging to file is disabled.
4/14/22 8:49 AM - qBittorrent v4.4.2 started
<...>
4/14/22 8:49 AM - RSS feed at 'https://nyaa.si/?page=rss&q=720p&c=0_0&f=0&u=subsplease' is successfully downloaded. Starting to parse it.
4/14/22 8:49 AM - Failed to parse RSS feed at 'https://nyaa.si/?page=rss&q=720p&c=0_0&f=0&u=subsplease'. Reason: Premature end of document. (line: 1, column: 0, offset: 0).
4/14/22 8:49 AM - RSS feed at 'https://nyaa.si/?page=rss&q=720p&c=0_0&f=0&u=subsplease' updated. Added 0 new articles.

Great, what did I learn from this? Absolutely fucking nothing about qBittorrent and everything I need to know about the one responsible for this crap, and it's quite sad that it should be other way around, but is not. A fucking error has occured? Oh really, wow it's almost like I didn't know, that's exactly why I tried to check the log, because everything was completely fine with qBittorrent and you check it when there's no errors, not when you already know that there's an error.

First of all, not only is qBittorrent literally not doing 2 most trivial things it should be effortlessly (opening a logfile and parsing rss was solved over 20 years ago), it's not even capable of telling me what's exactly wrong (clear communication also was solved over 2000 years ago), it has full access to ~/.local/share/qBittorrent/, what the fuck could possibly be a problem? Am I supposed to go make a logs directory for it as there isn't one when I for the first time actually need it? Maybe I should even write a log for it because it fucking can't do that on its own when it knows everything about itself and I fucking don't?

And what do you mean premature end of document? line: 1, column: 0, offset 0 is very clearly a fucking <, well, how do I know this you ask? Who knows.

Oh wait, it could be not, but not like I could fucking tell because I can't see what qBittorrent sees in memory and of course you don't need to print the relevant bit of rss file you're parsing in an error just like you don't have to show me what fucking filesystem error you're encountering either.

This is the most useless log I've ever fucking read in my entire fucking life. How the fuck am I supposed to figure out where's the problem, find bugs, let alone report them to you if not straight up fix them myself? Fuck you. And go fuck yourself, I have better things to do than murk around in gdb trying to hunt down the fucking errno for filesystem error that disables the logfile, or better yet, the fucking rss file that qBittorrent sees, because my real rss reader has no problem parsing it so it's clearly not the fucking issue in the rss feed. Oh you know what? My real rss reader also has no problem opening a logfile so it's also not a fucking issue on my system. So what's the issue? NOBODY FUCKING KNOWS. That's the entire point of this post, because if that log was relevant to literally anyone I'd have posted it as an issue and went on with my day instead of wasting everyone's and my own time talking about something so fucking trifle due to its obviousness.

[andry81]

Great story bro. Write a book about it. Let's say the NOBODY FUCKING KNOWS is good start for a title.

[yamirui]

Great story bro. Write a book about it. Let's say the NOBODY FUCKING KNOWS is good start for a title.
Literal wintoddler reply

If I were to write a book it would be about clinical retardation of morons who can't even use an already existing library to parse rss and then act all smug about it when they're called out.

[andry81]

I care. So you are wrong even with your own single school boy quote.

[LarLei]

@PriitUring - Please don't waste your time with juvenile and belligerent behaviors.

[luzpaz]

OP chooses to try to get their needs met in a way that wont get their needs met.

Also there is no mention of operating system and qbit version. Closing.