Gwibber "hangs" after a while or after loosing network connection

[Andres Mujica]

Binary package hint: gwibber

Release of Ubuntu: 9.04
Package Version: 0.8-0ubuntu5
Expected Results: work without hangs
Actual Results: After a while (2-3 hours) or after loosing the network connection it hangs, the window gets white and unresponsive. It must be killed and started again

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: gwibber 0.8-0ubuntu5
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=es_CO.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gwibber
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686

[Andres Mujica (andres.mujica)]

When starting from console, the hang occurs after the "Exception in thread Thread-2:"

 gwibber
/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gwibber/microblog/support/facelib.py:47: DeprecationWarning: the md5 module is deprecated; use hashlib instead
  import md5
Exception in thread Thread-2:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/threading.py", line 525, in __bootstrap_inner
    self.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/threading.py", line 477, in run
    self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gwibber/client.py", line 991, in process
    self.manage_indicator_items(view.message_store, tab_num=self.tabs.page_num(tab))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gwibber/client.py", line 948, in manage_indicator_items
    if not self.is_gwibber_active():
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gwibber/client.py", line 945, in is_gwibber_active
    return self.window.xid == screen.get_active_window().get_xid()
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get_xid'

[Andres Mujica (andres.mujica)]

an strace shows:

ps ax | grep gwibber
22997 pts/0 Sl+ 0:05 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/gwibber
25061 pts/1 S+ 0:00 grep gwibber
andres@vostro:~$ strace -p 22997
Process 22997 attached - interrupt to quit
futex(0x9ca8e88, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 2, NULL) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted)
--- SIGWINCH (Window changed) @ 0 (0) ---
futex(0x9ca8e88, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 2, NULL) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted)
--- SIGWINCH (Window changed) @ 0 (0) ---
futex(0x9ca8e88, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 2, NULL) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted)
--- SIGWINCH (Window changed) @ 0 (0) ---
futex(0x9ca8e88, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 2, NULL) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted)
--- SIGWINCH (Window changed) @ 0 (0) ---
futex(0x9ca8e88, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 2, NULL) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted)
--- SIGWINCH (Window changed) @ 0 (0) ---
futex(0x9ca8e88, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 2, NULL) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted)
--- SIGWINCH (Window changed) @ 0 (0) ---
futex(0x9ca8e88, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 2, NULL) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted)
--- SIGWINCH (Window changed) @ 0 (0) ---
futex(0x9ca8e88, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 2, NULL) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted)
--- SIGWINCH (Window changed) @ 0 (0) ---
futex(0x9ca8e88, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 2, NULL) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted)
--- SIGWINCH (Window changed) @ 0 (0) ---
futex(0x9ca8e88, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 2, NULL) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted)
--- SIGWINCH (Window changed) @ 0 (0) ---
futex(0x9ca8e88, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 2, NULL) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted)
--- SIGWINCH (Window changed) @ 0 (0) ---
futex(0x9ca8e88, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 2, NULL) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted)
--- SIGWINCH (Window changed) @ 0 (0) ---
futex(0x9ca8e88, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 2, NULL) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted)
--- SIGWINCH (Window changed) @ 0 (0) ---
futex(0x9ca8e88, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 2, NULL) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted)
--- SIGWINCH (Window changed) @ 0 (0) ---
futex(0x9ca8e88, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 2, NULL) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted)
--- SIGWINCH (Window changed) @ 0 (0) ---
futex(0x9ca8e88, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 2, NULL) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted)
--- SIGWINCH (Window changed) @ 0 (0) ---
futex(0x9ca8e88, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 2, NULL) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted)
--- SIGWINCH (Window changed) @ 0 (0) ---
futex(0x9ca8e88, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 2, NULL) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted)
--- SIGWINCH (Window changed) @ 0 (0) ---
futex(0x9ca8e88, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 2, NULL) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted)
--- SIGWINCH (Window changed) @ 0 (0) ---
futex(0x9ca8e88, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 2, NULL) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted)
--- SIGWINCH (Window changed) @ 0 (0) ---
futex(0x9ca8e88, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 2, NULL) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted)
--- SIGWINCH (Window changed) @ 0 (0) ---
futex(0x9ca8e88, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 2, NULL) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted)
--- SIGWINCH (Window changed) @ 0 (0) ---
futex(0x9ca8e88, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 2, NULL) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted)
--- SIGWINCH (Window changed) @ 0 (0) ---
futex(0x9ca8e88, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 2, NULL) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted)
--- SIGWINCH (Window changed) @ 0 (0) ---
futex(0x9ca8e88, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 2, NULL) = ? ERESTAR...

[wakingrufus (wakingrufus)]

i get the same error with package 0.9.2~bzr263-0ubuntu1~jaunty
from http://ppa.launchpad.net/gwibber-team/ppa/ubuntu

[wakingrufus (wakingrufus)]

this is the exact error i get in 0.9.2~bzr263-0ubuntu1~jaunty:
Exception in thread Thread-90:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/threading.py", line 525, in __bootstrap_inner
    self.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/threading.py", line 477, in run
    self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gwibber/client.py", line 1094, in process
    self.manage_indicator_items(view.message_store, tab_num=self.tabs.page_num(tab))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gwibber/client.py", line 1050, in manage_indicator_items
    if not self.is_gwibber_active():
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gwibber/client.py", line 1047, in is_gwibber_active
    return self.window.xid == screen.get_active_window().get_xid()
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get_xid'

[wakingrufus (wakingrufus)]

This is 100% reproducible on my machine via losing network connection. I have never had it happen just "after awhile" though. it always occurs at the time of a network disconnect.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

this is fixed for me in current karmic gwibber: 1.2.0~bzr346-0ubuntu1