Gwibber stops updating

[Daniel de Souza Ramos]

Binary package hint: gwibber

Frequently, with no aparent reason, Gwibber stops updating Twitter timeline. And it doesn't solve closing the application and openning it again. I don't know if it's only with Twitter, because it's the only account I use on Gwibber.

[will.ph (will.ph)]

Gwibber not updating timeline

I was previously using Gwibber released with Lucid. It was working at first but after a reboot, it doesn't update the timeline anymore. I removed version 2.30.01 and installed the one from the PPA. It worked. It updates the timeline and all others. After a reboot, again, it suddenly went back to its old self of not updating the timeline. I am able to send tweets and see my own tweets, but not the tweets from others.

Here's what I get from running gwibber-service:

$ gwibber-service -o -d
Updating...
Gwibber Dispatcher: DEBUG Setting up monitors
Gwibber Dispatcher: DEBUG Monitors are up
Gwibber Dispatcher: INFO Gwibber Service is reloading account credentials
Gwibber Dispatcher: DEBUG Refresh interval is set to 5
Gwibber Dispatcher: DEBUG ** Starting Refresh - Sun May 9 16:29:03 2010 **
Gwibber Dispatcher: DEBUG <twitter:receive> Performing operation
Gwibber Dispatcher: DEBUG <twitter:responses> Performing operation
Gwibber Dispatcher: DEBUG <twitter:responses> Finished operation
Gwibber Dispatcher: DEBUG <twitter:private> Performing operation
Gwibber Dispatcher: DEBUG <twitter:private> Finished operation
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gwibber/microblog/network.py", line 32, in __init__
    self.curl.perform()
error: (28, 'Operation timed out after 15000 milliseconds with 168000 out of 274756 bytes received')
Gwibber Dispatcher: ERROR Failed to communicate with https://twitter.com/statuses/home_timeline.json?count=200&since_id=13605537625
Gwibber Dispatcher: ERROR Failed to parse the response, error was: Expecting object: line 1 column 168000 (char 168000)
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 81, in perform_operation
    message_data = PROTOCOLS[account["protocol"]].Client(account)(opname, **args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gwibber/microblog/twitter.py", line 146, in __call__
    return getattr(self, opname)(**args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gwibber/microblog/twitter.py", line 149, in receive
    return self._get("statuses/home_timeline.json", count=count, since_id=since)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gwibber/microblog/twitter.py", line 136, in _get
    if data.has_key("error"):
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'has_key'

Gwibber Dispatcher: INFO Loading complete: 1 - ['Failure', 'Success', 'Success']

After restarting gwibber-service, it finally updated my timeline. So as a workaround, I would suggest unchecking the "Start service at login" option in the Options tab of Gwibber's Preferences. Reboot (or Log out and back in again) and see if it works for you.

I have rebooted once already and it seems to be working for now. HTH.

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 530195, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.