This was the package I was looking for.
This package is not mentioned in the README.
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Itās listed in the āStrongly recommendedā section on line 76.
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I may spend another day or two attempting to reduce the media pages
generation time to a reasonable time before I decide whether to keep
using the Narrated Web Report. However, I thought of one or two things
that should be checked out with regard to the Updates pages. Does it
take into account the situation where there are no updates or does it
take into account the amount of time that the Narrated Web Report has
been running? I think I saw that the default was to look for updates
within 1 day. If the time at which the Updates page is used to look for
updates, there would have been no updates for more than a day because
Narrated Web Report had already been running for nearly 36 hours. So
there probably were no updates to include on the page.
You can change this value between 1 and 300.
You can also set the maximum number of objects between 1 and 100.
I agree that it can be changed, but you really should be checking for the possibility that there are no updates within the time frame selected rather than allowing an exception to be thrown.
I may sometime check on whether it works when a longer time is selected, but right now Iām leaning toward not using the Narrated Web Report at all.
After installing the packages python3-imagesize, python3-pil, and python3-pil.imagetk, I re-installed gramps 5.2.0 and started another Narrative Web Report.
So far it has been running over 13 hours and the status bar on āCreating media pagesā hasnāt reached half-way yet.
Iāve been using the Narrated Web Report for many years and would like to continue doing so, but Dynamic Web Report only takes about an hour to run and makes all of the same information available. Iāve been doing both for a few years and letting users select either one. I havenāt had any feedback on what they prefer. However, some of the contacts Iāve had apparently found pages within the Narrated Web Report through an internet search.
But if it is going to take more than 24 hours to generate a report, Iām probably not going to continue using it. When I could run it in 12 to 15 hours, it was convenient to start it on Saturday evening and let it run overnight most weeks, but there is no convenient time or way to let it run more than 24 hours.
I never raise an exception. This problem occurs because you have the following error:
gramps.gen.errors.HandleError: Handle eb498d86ae64c636d6b2ddebc94 not found
You have only one solution for that: check and repair your database. I think the problem was already there in 5.1 but some implementation in 5.2 reveals this problem.
This is perhaps the problem. You are the first to have so many images.
We must certainly try to improve things at that level.
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The Check and Repair tool says there are no errors.
Iām going to have to have help fixing this if it is even possible for me to fix it.
I extracted the XML file from my most recent backup (made between the two attempts to run Narrated Web Report that both resulted in an error while generating the Updates page).
eb498d86ae64c636d6b2ddebc94 appears exactly twice in the XML file, as the handle for a source and as the sourceref for the only citation that references it.
Neither has been changed in nearly three years. I can see no reason for an error associated with this handle.
The number of hours to generate is probably going to be drastically reduced with the alternate imagesize tool.
Try generating WITHOUT images to see if the problem is solely with the image processing.
There is no question that the long execution time is associated with generating the media pages. The error report that I submitted was the result of running without images and it took less than 45 minutes to get to the point at which the error occurred as opposed to nearly 36 hours when I included images.
But if there are any packages that will improve the time I canāt find them.
I installed python3-imagesize, python3-pil, and python3-pil.imagetk and it made little or no difference. I gave up and killed gramps after about 18 hours when the status bar for āCreating media pagesā was about half-way.
Where do these python packages come from and how does Joe Blogs know to install them.
It would seem that they donāt make a difference because creating media is only half way through and that has already taken 13 hours
There are references to some packages in the Strongly Recommended section of the Readme file included with the source, but it doesnāt give package names, presumably because different distributions use different names.
I came up with python3-imagesize, python3-pil, and python3-pil.imagetk as the most likely candidates on Kubuntu 23.10, although I donāt know if they are the correct packages as they made no difference.
I have long suspected that the real problem is in the generation of the References section of the media pages. Part of my reason for suspecting this is that the Dynamic Web Report takes less than two hours to generate, and the primary difference is that the references section is far simpler in the Dynamic Web Report.
I like the Narrated Web Report, but I am not convinced it is worth the time it takes for the report to be generated.
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