Documentation download problem

[roygrubb]

I have NOMAD installed and working (on Lubuntu) but there is one section I can't get to download - the added documentation.

Git Documentation; Docker Documentation; HTML Documentation; CSS Documentation; and Javascript Documentation, while selected for downloading, all say 'waiting...' for hours, then eventually failed with status code 404. There is ample storage capacity still and I have tried over three days now.

As with all the downloads, I started at the Command Centre.

Anyone have ideas how I can solve this?

Thanks

[yhay81]

This is not a storage-capacity problem; it matches the known stale Kiwix URL bug in #1045.

NOMAD 1.33's curated catalog contains dated ZIM filenames. When Kiwix rotates a file to a newer date, the old URL returns 404 even though the disk and network are fine. The durable fix was merged in #1091 and released in v1.34.0-rc.1.

To fix it now:

1. Open Settings → Check for Updates.
2. Enable the Early Access Channel and update to 1.34.0-rc.1 or newer. (If you do not want an RC build, wait for the 1.34 stable release.)
3. After NOMAD restarts, remove/cancel the failed entries and select those documentation downloads again from Command Centre. Start new downloads rather than retrying an already-created stale job.

The new code resolves each resource ID against Kiwix's live catalog immediately before dispatching the download, so Git, Docker, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript should use the currently available filenames instead of the expired ones.

If one still fails after the update, please paste the single failing URL/version shown in Active Downloads or the download log; that would distinguish a mirror/network problem from this fixed catalog issue. You should not need to reinstall NOMAD or move its storage.

[roygrubb]

Thanks, I think it's OK now after the update.

I wasn't able to remove or cancel the failed entries, but after stopping nomad and starting it again, I can see entries for Git , Docker, HTML, CSS, and Javascript in :8090 so I think they must have been loaded in the background even though the progress bars didn't appear.

Appreciate your help. NOMAD is a valuable reference source to have all in one place and offline.