Twitter feed does not refresh: <twitter:receive> Operation failed

[Evgeniy Kirov]

Binary package hint: gwibber

Twitter feed does not refresh anymore. Last received tweet was 8 hours ago. Twitter is up and its API works normally.

Gwibber Dispatcher: ERROR <twitter:receive> Operation failed
Gwibber Dispatcher: DEBUG Traceback:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gwibber/microblog/dispatcher.py", line 90, in perform_operation
    m["rtl"] = util.isRTL(re.sub(text_cleaner, "", m["text"].decode('utf-8')))
KeyError: 'text'

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: gwibber 2.32.2-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-23.41-generic 2.6.35.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-23-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Dec 17 23:59:01 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=ru_RU.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gwibber

[Javier Moreno (elpasmo)]

I couldn't reproduce this error in the following machine: Ubuntu 10.10 2.6.35-23 i686 gwibber 2.32.2-0ubuntu2

[Evgeniy Kirov (evg.kirov)]

This bug occurs sometimes, I think it's about specific tweets.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

can you install gwibber from this ppa https://launchpad.net/~om26er/+archive/test and see if the problem happens again. it has the potential fix for this bug.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 645512, 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.