Cannot check for new updates under v0.9.8b

[mh505]

Have configured VLC for manual updates only and wonder if this is the reason the program won't let me go online with the update function "Help, Check for Updates ...". I get the msg: "An error occurred while checking .. ". This happens with or w/o the firewall in place.

Here is what the VLC debug log has to say:

[00000522] logger interface: VLC media player - version 0.9.8a Grishenko - (c) 1
996-2008 the VideoLAN team
[00000522] logger interface:
Warning: if you can't access the GUI anymore, open a command-line window, go to
the directory where you installed VLC and run "vlc -I qt"

[00000522] logger interface: using logger...
[00000522] logger interface warning: no log filename provided, using `vlc-log.tx
t'
[00000522] logger interface debug: opening logfile `vlc-log.txt'
[00000522] main interface debug: using interface module "logger"
[00000522] main interface debug: thread 5932 (interface) created at priority 0 (
interface/interface.c:168)
[00000522] main interface debug: thread started

[00000524] main update check debug: thread 5948 (check for update) created at pr
iority 0 (misc/update.c:1391)
[00000524] main update check debug: thread started
[00000001] main libvlc debug: creating access 'http' path='update.videolan.org/v
lc/status-win-x86'
[00000525] main access debug: looking for access module: 2 candidates
[00000525] access_http access debug: http: server='update.videolan.org' port=80
file='/vlc/status-win-x86
[00000525] main access debug: net: connecting to update.videolan.org port 80
[00000525] main access debug: connection: Resource temporarily unavailable
[00000525] main access debug: connection succeeded (socket = 6000)
[00000525] access_http access debug: protocol 'HTTP' answer code 206
[00000525] access_http access debug: Content-Type: text/plain
[00000525] access_http access debug: stream size=148,pos=0,remaining=148
[00000525] access_http access debug: this frame size=148
[00000525] access_http access debug: Server: lighttpd/1.4.13
[00000525] main access debug: using access module "access_http"
[00000526] main stream debug: Using AStream*Stream
[00000526] main stream debug: pre-buffering...
[00000526] main stream debug: received first data for our buffer
[00000525] main access debug: removing module "access_http"
[00000525] main access debug: waitpipe: object killed
[00000001] main libvlc debug: creating access 'http' path='update.videolan.org/v
lc/status-win-x86.asc'
[00000527] main access debug: looking for access module: 2 candidates
[00000527] access_http access debug: http: server='update.videolan.org' port=80
file='/vlc/status-win-x86.asc
[00000527] main access debug: net: connecting to update.videolan.org port 80
[00000527] main access debug: connection: Resource temporarily unavailable
[00000527] main access debug: connection succeeded (socket = 5992)
[00000527] access_http access debug: protocol 'HTTP' answer code 206
[00000527] access_http access debug: Content-Type: text/plain
[00000527] access_http access debug: stream size=189,pos=0,remaining=189
[00000527] access_http access debug: this frame size=189
[00000527] access_http access debug: Server: lighttpd/1.4.13
[00000527] main access debug: using access module "access_http"
[00000528] main stream debug: Using AStream*Stream
[00000528] main stream debug: pre-buffering...
[00000528] main stream debug: received first data for our buffer
[00000001] main libvlc debug: Downloading signature (189 bytes)
[00000527] main access debug: removing module "access_http"
[00000527] main access debug: waitpipe: object killed
[00000001] main libvlc debug: Unarmoring signature
[00000001] main libvlc warning: Bad SHA1 hash for status file
[00000001] main libvlc warning: update check 524 destroyed while thread alive (V
LC might crash)

Thx for your input
MH

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Known issue.

[DAC324]

Will there be a fix? I am asking this because that problem is not specific to 0.9.8b. It also occurred in previous versions.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

0.9.6 didn't have this issue, IIRC.

[DAC324]

That may be. I started encountering this problem starting with 0.9.7 as far as I can remember.

[VLC_help]

There isn't official 0.9.7 release.

[DAC324]

As I wrote, I can't tell for sure. But it is definitely a problem in 0.9.8a (which is, according to the download page, the latest official version).