ServerError: 401, unauthorized

[Curtis Hovey]

Binary package hint: desktopcouch

I haven't seen this exact error in other reports, and ubuntu-bug only captures of the deprecation warting. This looks like the root cause of why I cannot use UbunutOne or gwibber.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/desktopcouch/desktopcouch-service", line 93, in main
    replication_runtime = replication.set_up(lambda: port)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/desktopcouch/replication.py", line 220, in set_up
    couchdb_io.mkuri("localhost", int(port)), create=True)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/desktopcouch/pair/couchdb_pairing/couchdb_io.py", line 156, in get_my_host_unique_id
    ids = _get_management_data(MY_ID_RECORD_TYPE, "self_identity", uri=uri)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/desktopcouch/pair/couchdb_pairing/couchdb_io.py", line 200, in _get_management_data
    for record in results[record_type]:
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/couchdb/client.py", line 871, in __iter__
    for row in self.rows:
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/couchdb/client.py", line 893, in rows
    self._fetch()
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/couchdb/client.py", line 881, in _fetch
    data = self.view._exec(self.options)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/couchdb/client.py", line 766, in _exec
    resp, data = self.resource.get(**self._encode_options(options))
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/couchdb/client.py", line 978, in get
    return self._request('GET', path, headers=headers, **params)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/couchdb/client.py", line 1035, in _request
    raise ServerError((status_code, error))
ServerError: (401, (u'unauthorized', u'Authentication required.'))

[Curtis Hovey (sinzui)]

I'll let someone with knowledge mark this invalid.

The solution to this issue, and the related gwibber startup is that I had an old version of launchpadlib and oauth install in /usr/local/lib/python2.6. I did not realise I had old libs about until I tried to use apport-collection which provided a launchpadlib error I understood. Other users with desktopcouch/gwibber/ubuntuone issues may be caused by old libs.