AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'makefile'

[Juan Simón]

$ gmailwatcher
Removing stale, deceptive pid file.
Apache CouchDB has started, time to relax.
Browse your desktop CouchDB at file:///home/simon/.local/share/desktop-couch/couchdb.html
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/gmailwatcher", line 57, in <module>
    load_preferences()
  File "/usr/bin/gmailwatcher", line 45, in load_preferences
    dlg = PreferencesGmailwatcherDialog.PreferencesGmailwatcherDialog()
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/gmailwatcher/PreferencesGmailwatcherDialog.py", line 43, in __new__
    new_object.finish_initializing(builder)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/gmailwatcher/PreferencesGmailwatcherDialog.py", line 82, in finish_initializing
    self._database = CouchDatabase(self._db_name, create=True)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/desktopcouch/records/server.py", line 57, in __init__
    server_class=server_class, oauth_tokens=oauth_tokens, ctx=ctx)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/desktopcouch/records/server_base.py", line 152, in __init__
    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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Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: gmailwatcher 10.11.1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=es_ES:es:en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=es_ES.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-26.47-generic-pae 2.6.32.24+drm33.11
Tags: lucid
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-26-generic-pae i686
UnreportableReason: Este no es un paquete Ubuntu genuino
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip fax fuse lp lpadmin netdev nopasswdlogin plugdev sambashare users vboxusers video winbindd_priv

[Juan Simón (simonbcn)]

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[Juan Simón (simonbcn)]

It's curious that this app produces errors in other apps...

[Gary M (garym)]

I get the same error repeating in ~/.cache/desktop-couch/log/desktop-couch-replication.log, with most of each traceback matching this one.

[Eric Casteleijn (thisfred)]

Chad, will this be fixed in 1.0? (also, isn't there code in the current version to catch this error, or did that not land in time for maverick?)