diff --git a/resources/recipes/irish_times.recipe b/resources/recipes/irish_times.recipe
index 0ac130ed7a..83ea496b2c 100644
--- a/resources/recipes/irish_times.recipe
+++ b/resources/recipes/irish_times.recipe
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ class IrishTimes(BasicNewsRecipe):
     def print_version(self, url):
          if url.count('rss.feedsportal.com'):
             u = 'http://www.irishtimes.com' + \
-                     (((url[69:].replace('0C','/')).replace('0A','0'))).replace('0Bhtml/story01.htm','_pf.html')
+                     (((url[70:].replace('0C','/')).replace('0A','0'))).replace('0Bhtml/story01.htm','_pf.html')
          else:
              u = url.replace('.html','_pf.html')
          return u
diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/transforms/jacket.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/transforms/jacket.py
index fe0d60de7a..d3b66d1e81 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/transforms/jacket.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/transforms/jacket.py
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ from calibre import guess_type, strftime
 from calibre.ebooks.BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
 from calibre.ebooks.oeb.base import XPath, XHTML_NS, XHTML
 from calibre.library.comments import comments_to_html
+from calibre.utils.date import is_date_undefined
 
 JACKET_XPATH = '//h:meta[@name="calibre-content" and @content="jacket"]'
 
@@ -130,7 +131,10 @@ def render_jacket(mi, output_profile,
         publisher = ''
 
     try:
-        pubdate = strftime(u'%Y', mi.pubdate.timetuple())
+        if is_date_undefined(mi.pubdate):
+            pubdate = ''
+        else:
+            pubdate = strftime(u'%Y', mi.pubdate.timetuple())
     except:
         pubdate = ''
 
@@ -175,19 +179,24 @@ def render_jacket(mi, output_profile,
         soup = BeautifulSoup(generated_html)
         if not series:
             series_tag = soup.find(attrs={'class':'cbj_series'})
-            series_tag.extract()
+            if series_tag is not None:
+                series_tag.extract()
         if not rating:
             rating_tag = soup.find(attrs={'class':'cbj_rating'})
-            rating_tag.extract()
+            if rating_tag is not None:
+                rating_tag.extract()
         if not tags:
             tags_tag = soup.find(attrs={'class':'cbj_tags'})
-            tags_tag.extract()
+            if tags_tag is not None:
+                tags_tag.extract()
         if not pubdate:
-            pubdate_tag = soup.find(attrs={'class':'cbj_pubdate'})
-            pubdate_tag.extract()
+            pubdate_tag = soup.find(attrs={'class':'cbj_pubdata'})
+            if pubdate_tag is not None:
+                pubdate_tag.extract()
         if output_profile.short_name != 'kindle':
             hr_tag = soup.find('hr', attrs={'class':'cbj_kindle_banner_hr'})
-            hr_tag.extract()
+            if hr_tag is not None:
+                hr_tag.extract()
 
         return soup.renderContents(None)
 
diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/txt/input.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/txt/input.py
index 60adf4bd7a..e240205222 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/txt/input.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/txt/input.py
@@ -57,8 +57,8 @@ class TXTInput(InputFormatPlugin):
     def convert(self, stream, options, file_ext, log,
                 accelerators):
         self.log = log
-        length = None
         log.debug('Reading text from file...')
+        length = 0
 
         txt = stream.read()
 
diff --git a/src/calibre/gui2/dialogs/message_box.py b/src/calibre/gui2/dialogs/message_box.py
index 9d586ce28d..945d50de4e 100644
--- a/src/calibre/gui2/dialogs/message_box.py
+++ b/src/calibre/gui2/dialogs/message_box.py
@@ -89,7 +89,8 @@ class MessageBox(QDialog, Ui_Dialog):
                 (__version__, unicode(self.windowTitle()),
                     unicode(self.msg.text()),
                     unicode(self.det_msg.toPlainText())))
-        self.ctc_button.setText(_('Copied'))
+        if hasattr(self, 'ctc_button'):
+            self.ctc_button.setText(_('Copied'))
 
     def showEvent(self, ev):
         ret = QDialog.showEvent(self, ev)