Unable to fetch any news

[jennie]

I am using calibre 0.7.18 on ubuntu 10.10 and I have been unable to fetch any recipe. I have tried both the graphical interface and the command line utility, as well as various feeds (bbc, etc). I seem to get connection time-outs, but my internet connection is working (around 2mbps).
Here's an example:

jennie@samsung:~/7_Temp/ed$ ebook-convert /usr/share/calibre/recipes/kathemerini.recipe kaqhmerinh.mobi
1% Converting input to HTML...
InputFormatPlugin: Recipe Input running
1% Fetching feeds...
1% Fetching feed Πολιτική...
Failed feed: Πολιτική
1% Fetching feed Ελλάδα...
Failed feed: Ελλάδα
1% Fetching feed Κόσμος...
Failed feed: Κόσμος
1% Fetching feed Οικονομία...
Failed feed: Οικονομία
1% Fetching feed Επιχειρήσεις...
Failed feed: Επιχειρήσεις
1% Fetching feed Διεθνής Οικονομία...
Failed feed: Διεθνής Οικονομία
1% Fetching feed Πολιτισμός...
Failed feed: Πολιτισμός
1% Fetching feed Μόνιμες Στήλες...
Failed feed: Μόνιμες Στήλες
1% Trying to download cover...
1% Generating masthead...
Synthesizing mastheadImage
1% Starting download [5 thread(s)]...
34% Feeds downloaded to /tmp/calibre_0.7.18_tmp_OuxhJ0/calibre_0.7.18_eqGPaD_plumber/index.html
34% Download finished
Parsing all content...
Initial parse failed:
Parsing file 'feed_0/index.html' as HTML
Forcing feed_0/index.html into XHTML namespace
Initial parse failed:
Parsing file 'feed_4/index.html' as HTML
Forcing feed_4/index.html into XHTML namespace
Initial parse failed:
Parsing file 'feed_3/index.html' as HTML
Forcing feed_3/index.html into XHTML namespace
Initial parse failed:
Parsing file 'feed_5/index.html' as HTML
Forcing feed_5/index.html into XHTML namespace
Initial parse failed:
Parsing file 'feed_1/index.html' as HTML
Forcing feed_1/index.html into XHTML namespace
Initial parse failed:
Parsing file 'feed_2/index.html' as HTML
Forcing feed_2/index.html into XHTML namespace
Forcing index.html into XHTML namespace
Initial parse failed:
Parsing file 'feed_6/index.html' as HTML
Forcing feed_6/index.html into XHTML namespace
Initial parse failed:
Parsing file 'feed_7/index.html' as HTML
Forcing feed_7/index.html into XHTML namespace
34% Running transforms on ebook...
Merging user specified metadata...
Detecting structure...
Flattening CSS and remapping font sizes...
Source base font size is 12.00000pt
Cleaning up manifest...
Trimming unused files from manifest...
Creating MOBI Output...
67% Creating MOBI Output
Generating in-line TOC...
Applying case-transforming CSS...
Rasterizing SVG images...
Converting XHTML to Mobipocket markup...
Converting TOC for MOBI periodical indexing...
Serializing markup content...
  Compressing markup content...
  MOBI periodical specified, evaluating TOC for periodical conformance ...
  TOC structure conforms
Generating structured CTOC ...
  CNCX utilization: 1 record, 0% full
Indexing navPoints ...
  Could not find TOC entry "Failed feed: Πολιτική", aborting indexing ...
  Writing unindexed mobi ...
Serializing images...
MOBI output written to /home/jennie/7_Temp/ed/kaqhmerinh.mobi
Output saved to   /home/jennie/7_Temp/ed/kaqhmerinh.mobi

[kovidgoyal]

Uninstall your distro provided package and use the official calibre binary from calibre-ebook.com/download_linux

[jennie]

Thanx for the help, but it turns out I shouldn't have bothered you. After several failed attempts to download the binary, I finally realized that it was a problem with my internet connection after all. I switched to using my phone's connection, and everything started working fine.
I still don't understand what the problem is, but it obviously isn't calibre's fault.