with no network connection, control panel "account information" tab shows inscrutable error dialog box that doesn't seem to have an effect

Bug #1000061 reported by Mike McCracken
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Ubuntu One Control Panel
Triaged
Medium
Diego Sarmentero

Bug Description

On Ubuntu 12.04:
1. disable networking from system menu
2. start u1 control panel from launcher
3. no error is shown, and:

If you then click on the account information tab, you will get an error dialog box with a user-unfriendly error message. See screenshot.
In fact, the error is even confusing as a debug message - is the second string supposed to be the host that wasn't found? Why is it empty?

Why is this the only tab that gets an error when presumably other tabs need a connection too? (Even the header needs a connection to know my name apparently, see bug 1000056 )

Finally, I clicked "close" and u1 control panel stayed up. What did I just close?

Revision history for this message
Mike McCracken (mikemc) wrote :
Rick McBride (rmcbride)
Changed in ubuntuone-control-panel:
assignee: nobody → Ubuntu One Desktop+ team (ubuntuone-desktop+)
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Roberto Alsina (ralsina) wrote :

There are several bugs in the same vein.

Basically, we need to think a way not to break badly withut network.

Since we already have network detection and signaling, this is mostly about thinking, briefly discussing, and then swiftly implementing said thoughts. I put this in the capable hands of a gatox.

Changed in ubuntuone-control-panel:
status: Confirmed → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Medium
assignee: Ubuntu One Desktop+ team (ubuntuone-desktop+) → Diego Sarmentero (diegosarmentero)
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