Gwibber spams you with "no such user" message on startup

[Feathertail]

Binary package hint: gwibber

PROBLEM

I get a notification from Identi.ca that there is "No such user" every time I start my computer.

When I start Gwibber, it has a red "No such user" notifier at the top of the window, with buttons to retry and dismiss. If I recall correctly, it continues to tell me this throughout the day at random intervals.

HOW TO REPRODUCE

I am not sure. This problem started after I clicked on a link to an Identi.ca user's name. Perhaps this user did not exist?

EXPECTED BEHAVIOR

Gwibber won't spam me with notifications that I don't understand, and that are not germane to what I am doing with it.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: gwibber 3.0.0.1-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri May 20 02:00:44 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gwibber
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-14 (35 days ago)

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

Please could you attach your "~/.cache/gwibber/gwibber.log" as a separated file into your report? Thank you

[Finn10111 (finn-christiansen)]

I am also affected by this bug so I thought it will upload my gwibber.log, here it is. It is not the complete file, I only put the log of the last day in it. You should be able to see the error in the log.
I am using the same gwibber version and I am running natty, too.

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

Fin10111, would you mind to attach a screenshot of this issue?

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[Feathertail (feathertail-deactivatedaccount)]

I am attaching my log. Here's an example of earlier activity, from before this started I think. This happened a lot back then:

2010-12-27 21:01:00,017 - Gwibber Dispatcher - ERROR - Failed to parse the response, error was: No JSON object could be decoded
2010-12-27 21:01:00,018 - Gwibber Dispatcher - ERROR - Identi.ca unexpected result - No JSON object could be decoded
2010-12-27 21:01:00,027 - Gwibber Dispatcher - ERROR - Failed to communicate with https://identi.ca/api/direct_messages/sent.json?count=200&since_id=49408
2010-12-27 21:01:00,027 - Gwibber Dispatcher - ERROR - Failed to parse the response, error was: No JSON object could be decoded
2010-12-27 21:01:00,027 - Gwibber Dispatcher - ERROR - Identi.ca unexpected result - No JSON object could be decoded
2010-12-27 21:01:00,074 - Gwibber Dispatcher - ERROR - Failed to communicate with https://identi.ca/api/statuses/user_timeline.json?count=50&id=thornet&since_id=61136915
2010-12-27 21:01:00,074 - Gwibber Dispatcher - ERROR - Failed to parse the response, error was: No JSON object could be decoded
2010-12-27 21:01:00,108 - Gwibber Dispatcher - ERROR - Identi.ca unexpected result - No JSON object could be decoded
2010-12-27 21:01:00,131 - Gwibber Dispatcher - ERROR - Failed to communicate with https://identi.ca/api/statuses/user_timeline.json?count=50&id=thornet&since_id=61136915
2010-12-27 21:01:00,131 - Gwibber Dispatcher - ERROR - Failed to parse the response, error was: No JSON object could be decoded
2010-12-27 21:01:00,132 - Gwibber Dispatcher - ERROR - Identi.ca unexpected result - No JSON object could be decoded
2010-12-27 21:01:00,171 - Gwibber Dispatcher - ERROR - Failed to communicate with https://identi.ca/api/statuses/user_timeline.json?count=50&id=stuartotterson&since_id=61138332

stuartotterson is someone I used to subscribe to. The problems started soon after I clicked through from thornet to another user, and it didn't seem to work. Also, I am not getting notices that this application is not authorized to access my Twitter account or something.

Here's a more recent snapshot from the logs:

2011-08-03 13:01:48,110 - Identi.ca - INFO - Loading complete: 1 - []
2011-08-03 13:02:22,570 - Identi.ca - INFO - Cleaning up database...
2011-08-03 13:02:23,434 - Identi.ca - INFO - Found 10 records in the messages stream for account d72b249a4d4111e095b170f1a17a2414
2011-08-03 13:02:23,648 - Identi.ca - INFO - Found 851 records in the messages stream for account identica-feathertail
2011-08-03 13:16:42,363 - Identi.ca - ERROR - Identi.ca failure - No such user.
2011-08-03 13:16:43,122 - Identi.ca - ERROR - Identi.ca failure - No such user.
2011-08-03 13:16:43,938 - Identi.ca - ERROR - Identi.ca failure - No such user.
2011-08-03 13:16:45,929 - Identi.ca - ERROR - Identi.ca failure - No such user.
2011-08-03 13:16:51,398 - Identi.ca - INFO - Loading complete: 2 - []
2011-08-03 13:26:26,663 - Gwibber GNOME Client - INFO - Running from the system path
2011-08-03 13:32:05,365 - Identi.ca - ERROR - Identi.ca failure - No such user.
2011-08-03 13:32:10,513 - Identi.ca - ERROR - Identi.ca failure - No such user.
2011-08-03 13:32:11,454 - Identi.ca - ERROR - Identi.ca failure - No such use...

[Xavier Guillot (valeryan-24)]

I have this bug, too.

It first happened when, on my Identica TimeLine, I tried to click on a pseudo in someone's dent.

But this person was posting both in Twitter + Identica, the pseudo was a Twitter one and does not exist on Identica.

So at this time I got the notification "No such user" with identica red symbol in Ubuntu, normal.

Problem, since then, each time I start Gwibber, this notification re-appears, as Gwibber tried again to reach this user's in Identica.

I'll post a scrrenshot next time I restart.

[Xavier Guillot (valeryan-24)]

Here's the screenshot.

[Bilal Shahid (s9iper1)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:

* Is this reproducible now ?
* If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?

[Xavier Guillot (valeryan-24)]

For me problem is solved now (Gwibber 3.4.0) : with an identica account, if the user exists on identica, when I click on it, a row with its name is added on the user tab, if I select it I can view the user's timeline.

If the user doesn't exist on identica but on twitter, if I click on it, it still adds a row with the name on user tab, but when I select it, nothing happens.

And no more "no such user" notification, not at the click nor on next startup.

So it seems to be fixed.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for Gwibber because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for gwibber (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]