Gwibber can't find profile image

[Remco Hijink]

Binary package hint: gwibber

When someone has a twitter profile image with probably an "-" in the filename, gwibber crashes on it. I have tested it on two completely computers. It halds on this twitter profile: http://twitter.com/brammuller

My trackback information:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gwibber/microblog/__init__.py", line 47, in get_data
    yield self.post_process_message(message)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gwibber/client.py", line 866, in post_process_message
    message.image_path = gwui.image_cache(message.image_url)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gwibber/gwui.py", line 105, in image_cache
    output = open(img_path, "w+")
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'/home/remco/.cache/gwibber/images/a623df8c198bc2071dd95baf33f4aedc58d65781.com/twitter_production/profile_images/192501334/portret-kaal_normal'

[Martin Gamache (martin-gamache)]

I get the same problem, the profile I'm following is this one http://twitter.com/renartleveille, and yes, the profile image has a "_" in it...

What's worst, this problem blocks me from receiving updates from others that I follow...

[Martin Gamache (martin-gamache)]

Ooops. This problem only blocks the user with the "_" in his picture file. The other users were blocked for a different reason (now solved).

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

please check whether this happens with the latest karmic packages of gwibber. if you are on jaunty and cannot try karmic check-out the daily PPA to get equivalent backports: https://edge.launchpad.net/~gwibber-daily/+archive/ppa.

[JinYoung (classpath)]

I have a similar problem. When Gwibber starts up or fetches the message list, it prints out below error message on console _ I ran it with -v -d options.

image_cache HTTP Error 404: Not Found whilst fetching http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/53930040/개죽이_normal.jpg

One of my friend has a profile image which its' name is mixed with Korean and underscore "_". I can't sure which one causes this problem. Anyway the image is shown well via web browser, no problem.

[David Gillies (daveg)]

I'm seeing the same issue. Except for me, I don't see profile images for anybody

[Lionel Dricot (ploum-deactivatedaccount)]

I'm just like David Gillies with the exception that I see some pictures (approximately 10% of my contacts). It appears on both identi.ca and twitter accounts.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

can any one facing this issue please update to the development release of gwibber and see if that solves the problem. Thanks here is the ppa for that https://launchpad.net/~gwibber-daily/+archive/ppa

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!