[Qgis-user] Errors when re-opening new installation of QGIS

[Richard Duivenvoorde]

On 14-01-15 10:29, Reinier Battenberg wrote:
> 
> When I restart now (i had restarted before), the error is gone. We are back. 
> If anyone did something, thanks. If this is an error that may return maybe it 
> can be a bit more descriptive?
> 
> On Wednesday 14 January 2015 11:05:36 Reinier Battenberg wrote:
>> I subscribed to respond on this post, so its not in the thread.
>> http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-user/2015-January/030462.html
>>
>> We are having the same issue, with 15 workstations (we are in a training)
>>
>> about 14 hours ago, it was still fine.
>>
>> There is a popup after starting the app (which is probably the plugin update
>> checker)
>>
>> When you open the Plugin Manager, the download of the Official Plugin
>> Repository never finishes.
>>
>> We use 2 different ISPs to access the internet.
>> We can open http://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/plugins.xml?qgis=2.6 in the
>> browser without XML parsing errors.
>>
>> A quick fix would be highly appreciated, so we can do our plugin exercises
>> :-)

Hi,

In this case I think it is best to  create an issues for this.
OR split up this email, so it is more clear what it is about.

Because it looks like you describe three (non related) problems?

-1-
>From this error it looks like a bug:

An error has occured while executing Python code:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File
"/Applications/QGIS.app/Contents/MacOS/../Resources/python/pyplugin_installer/installer_data.py",
line 460, in xmlDownloaded
    if isCompatible(QGis.QGIS_VERSION, qgisMinimumVersion,
qgisMaximumVersion):
  File
"/Applications/QGIS.app/Contents/MacOS/../Resources/python/pyplugin_installer/version_compare.py",
line 188, in isCompatible
    if len(maxVer)TypeError: object of type 'NoneType' has no len()

BUT: we should know if this is an error AFTER there has been a time out
for the network request or not.
It is not clear to me from the messages if this is only OSX related or
that it also turns up on Windows (Lene?).

-2-
About the network request, we should dive into that one IF it occurs.
Best when in such case put that in the IRC channel so people can check it.

-3-
Different providers have different capabilities. Have a look in the
'metadata' tab of the layer properties.

Regards,

Richard Duivenvoorde