[Scilab-users] GUI start up stalls because of unreachable scilab.io (specified in newsfeed.xml)

[Clément David]

Hello Luc,

scilab.io is used to retrieve Scilab news ; if the current behavior does not feel your needs please
open a bug on bugzilla.scilab.org .

Regards,

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Clément

Le mardi 30 mai 2017 à 10:46 +0000, Hermitte Luc (CS SI) a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to install scilab on our cluster, but before fine tuning the compilation, I've tried
> the binaries you've packaged.
> 
> When I simply run `path/to/scilab`, I end up with:
> 
> 1- java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out
> 2- eventually, **minutes later**, the GUI pops up
> 
> If I execute the cli version, I've no troubles.
> 
> With a strace -f, I see a 
>    [pid 43009] 1496135543.190668 connect(64, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(80),
> sin_addr=inet_addr("213.186.33.16")}, 16 <unfinished ...>
> 
> Looks like a good culprit as I'm behind a firewall. It appears to be the IP address of scilab.io.
> I've found an occurrence of it in newsfeed.xml, and indeed, this is the culprit.
> 
> It'll be nice to :
> - print a more precise error message like: "Cannot connect to news.scilab.io, see the related
> documentation XXX"
> - document the issue, how to fix it, the file syntax (for instance, I'd like to clear it, but a
> <newsfeed> entry is expected, and it cannot be empty)
> - not stall for so long for something definitively not critical (from an end-user point of view)
> - support proxies with authentication configured with $http(s)_proxy variables.
> 
> 
> Regards,