Get Hot New Stuff - System Settings - "Network Error [203]"

[hackan301]

Hello everybdoy!

I am back at Kubuntu after 8 months or so with Elementary OS. Feels refreshing to be back together with plasma but I have since a couple of days been struggling with a minor, but yet so annoying, problem.

In System Settings whenever I want to browse Color Schemes, Icons, Desktop Themes etc etc I am met by an error down in the little poped up browser window saying "Network Error (203)".

I when I launch System Settings from Konsole I see: systemsettings(7728) KPixmapSequence::Private::loadSequence: Invalid framesize.

It occurs in Konsole every time I try to browse for anything from the System Settings so I figure it must be connected to the 'network error' that I am getting.

I don't use any proxy servers or anything special in my settings and I can access OpenDesktop.org just fine from my web browsers.

Any ideas?

Advanced merry xmas!

/hackan

[vinnywright]

what ver. of Kubuntu ?

VINNY

[hackan301]

what ver. of Kubuntu ?

VINNY

14.10, all up to date.

[claydoh]

The 'Get Hot New Stuff' is actually connecting to www.kde-look.org for it's content. Sometimes it is broken or unreliable on their end, and we can't browse for things using the built-in tools we have. Not much we can do until they fix whatever it is that broke.

I noticed it was down a couple days ago, though some things, such as icon packs and dolphin service menus seem to be working on my right now.

[hackan301]

The 'Get Hot New Stuff' is actually connecting to www.kde-look.org for it's content. Sometimes it is broken or unreliable on their end, and we can't browse for things using the built-in tools we have. Not much we can do until they fix whatever it is that broke.

I noticed it was down a couple days ago, though some things, such as icon packs and dolphin service menus seem to be working on my right now.

I don't know, I can access things on kde-look.org just fine as well, so it doesn't seem to be a serverside problem to me.

[claydoh]

It's on the backend. It happens on occasion over the years. I did use it successfully in the last week or so, and then it stopped working, with no updates relating to the ghns alerts as far as I can see, and it is happening on both kde4 and plasma 5 here .

Sent from my Verizon HTC Droid DNA smartphone running an HTC One m7 Google Play Edition Rom with Android 5 Lollipop, via Tapatalk --as if phone stats really matter, the phone is outdated, lol!

[hackan301]

It's on the backend. It happens on occasion over the years. I did use it successfully in the last week or so, and then it stopped working, with no updates relating to the ghns alerts as far as I can see, and it is happening on both kde4 and plasma 5 here .

Sent from my Verizon HTC Droid DNA smartphone running an HTC One m7 Google Play Edition Rom with Android 5 Lollipop, via Tapatalk --as if phone stats really matter, the phone is outdated, lol!

Ah ok, first time I see it happening on KDE (as far as I can remember at least) so I assumed it was something with my machine.

Great then, thanks for the enlightenment :-)

[claydoh]

Well, it is working everywhere in 14.10 for me now, but not in plasma 5, so it could well be a bug

[hackan301]

Well, it is working everywhere in 14.10 for me now, but not in plasma 5, so it could well be a bug

Hm, I am still getting the same error. Maybe it could be a geographical issue as well... if indeed this isn't something which is just happening on my machine.

[deadite66]

Network error. (203) still happening, Plasma5 on vervet.
Never has worked for me, but the error message has changed in the newer plasma5 release.

[Wheel Inventor]

Bug 342172 - System Settings Add-On Installer Fails: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=342172
Bug 341334 - Problem fetching kde artwork from download.kde.org/ocs/providers.xml: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=341334