fails to start, python error

[Olav Vahtras]

Binary package hint: gwibber

1)
Description: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS
Release: 10.04
2)

gwibber:
  Installed: 2.30.1-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 2.30.1-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 2.30.1-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.30.0.1-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages

3)
GUI opens

4)
** (gwibber:5498): WARNING **: Trying to register gtype 'WnckWindowState' as enum when in fact it is of type 'GFlags'

** (gwibber:5498): WARNING **: Trying to register gtype 'WnckWindowActions' as enum when in fact it is of type 'GFlags'

** (gwibber:5498): WARNING **: Trying to register gtype 'WnckWindowMoveResizeMask' as enum when in fact it is of type 'GFlags'
Updating...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/gwibber", line 67, in <module>
    client.Client()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gwibber/client.py", line 447, in __init__
    self.w = GwibberClient()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gwibber/client.py", line 41, in __init__
    if len(json.loads(self.service.GetAccounts())) == 0:
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/proxies.py", line 140, in __call__
    **keywords)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/connection.py", line 620, in call_blocking
    message, timeout)
dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Python.AttributeError: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/service.py", line 702, in _message_cb
    retval = candidate_method(self, *args, **keywords)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gwibber/microblog/dispatcher.py", line 491, in GetAccounts
    for account in self.accounts.get_records(COUCH_TYPE_ACCOUNT, True):
    File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/desktopcouch/records/server_base.py", line 482, in get_records
    exists = self.view_exists(view_name, design_doc)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/desktopcouch/records/server_base.py", line 429, in view_exists
    self.with_reconnects(self.db.__getitem__, doc_id)["views"]
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/desktopcouch/records/server_base.py", line 168, in with_reconnects
    self._reconnect()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/desktopcouch/records/server_base.py", line 176, in _reconnect
    if self._database_name not in self._server:
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/couchdb/client.py", line 124, in __contains__
    self.resource.head(validate_dbname(name))
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/couchdb/client.py", line 981, in head
    return self._request('HEAD', path, headers=headers, **params)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/couchdb/client.py", line 1014, in _request
    resp, data = _make_request()
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/couchdb/client.py", line 1009, in _make_request
    body=body, headers=headers)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/httplib2/__init__.py", line 1129, in request
    (response, content) = self._request(conn, authority, uri, request_uri, method, body, headers, redirections, cachekey)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/httplib2/__init__.py", line 901, in _request
    (response, content) = self._conn_request(conn, request_uri, method, body, headers)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/httplib2/__init__.py", line 871, in _conn_request
    response = conn.getresponse()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/httplib.py", line 984, in getresponse
    method=self._method)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/httplib.py", line 330, in __init__
    self.fp = sock.makefile('rb', 0)
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'makefile'
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ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: gwibber 2.30.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.39-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: openafs
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Aug 25 10:43:07 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gwibber

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 522538, so is being marked as such. Any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to report any other bugs you may find