speedtest

hi,
dont know what happened but i am not able to run speedtest/speedtest-cli on volumio anymore … gettin error as

root@volumio:/home/volumio# speedtest-cli
Retrieving speedtest.net configuration…
Retrieving speedtest.net server list…
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/bin/speedtest-cli”, line 9, in
load_entry_point(‘speedtest-cli==0.3.1’, ‘console_scripts’, ‘speedtest-cli’)()
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/speedtest_cli.py”, line 686, in main
speedtest()
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/speedtest_cli.py”, line 536, in speedtest
servers = closestServers(config[‘client’])
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/speedtest_cli.py”, line 345, in closestServers
uh = urlopen(‘http://www.speedtest.net/speedtest-servers-static.php’)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py”, line 154, in urlopen
return opener.open(url, data, timeout)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py”, line 437, in open
response = meth(req, response)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py”, line 550, in http_response
‘http’, request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py”, line 469, in error
result = self._call_chain(*args)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py”, line 409, in _call_chain
result = func(*args)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py”, line 656, in http_error_302
return self.parent.open(new, timeout=req.timeout)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py”, line 437, in open
response = meth(req, response)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py”, line 550, in http_response
‘http’, request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py”, line 475, in error
return self._call_chain(*args)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py”, line 409, in _call_chain
result = func(*args)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py”, line 558, in http_error_default
raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)
urllib2.HTTPError: HTTP Error 503: Service Unavailable

thanks

I don’t know speetest, but why are you logged as root. Log as Volumio, and use sudo instead.

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doesnt matter if i execute it as root or as volumio or as volumio using sudo…

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A 503 error indicates a problem with the speed test servers. Have you tried asking whether there are problems on the speed test support site?