I haven't been seeing the behaviour since august last year, but that is because I fixed it by making the change in comment #15. I'll remove my fix to see whether the bug still occurs.
One reason I might have been seeing this problem and others didn't is my locale setting. It's a bit different than most people's: LANG=en_US.utf8 LC_CTYPE="en_US.utf8" LC_NUMERIC=nl_NL.UTF-8 LC_TIME=nl_NL.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE="en_US.utf8" LC_MONETARY=nl_NL.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES="en_US.utf8" LC_PAPER=nl_NL.UTF-8 LC_NAME=nl_NL.UTF-8 LC_ADDRESS=nl_NL.UTF-8 LC_TELEPHONE=nl_NL.UTF-8 LC_MEASUREMENT=nl_NL.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.utf8" LC_ALL= That is because I don't like Dutch language translations. I find them to be clunky and incomplete, so I'd rather see things in English, but I still want to see Dutch number formats, date formats, etc... Perhaps this unusual locale setting is triggering the bug? Like Foppe says this was a real and reproducable bug. I think closing it now would be a bit premature. I still think it's likely that it points to a bug in the Python libraries. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Gwibber Bug Heros, which is subscribed to Gwibber. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/605543 Title: UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xe1 in position 0: unexpected end of data Status in Gwibber: Confirmed Status in “gwibber” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Binary package hint: gwibber According to bug 530195 the problems in Gwibber should have been fixed in 2.30.1, but no such luck. Both the Facebook and Twitter support are broken, rendering Gwibber useless for me. I just upgraded from Karmic to Lucid. I now have Gwibber 2.30.1 running on my system, and things have gone from bad to worse. Whereas previously it was just Facebook that was working only sporadically, Twitter has now stopped working for me as well. I had a Flickr account, a Facebook account and a Twitter account configured in Gwibber, yet the Message screen remains completely empty. No Twitter or Facebook messages are displayed, even after manually selecting Refresh. On the Home screen the only things that are displayed are Flickr photos, and Twitter messages that are @directed at me. I've attached a log file of a gwibber -d run. As you can see it complains that the com.Gwibber.Accounts and com.Gwibber.Streams services are not not provided by any service files. That sounds bad. I have already tried deleting every Gwibber-related settings directory and cache directory I could find, but none of it made any difference. I also tried removing and re-adding my accounts (during which I discovered that it is actually impossible to add a Facebook account anymore! I'll file a separate bug for that), but that made no difference either. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~gwibber-bugs Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~gwibber-bugs More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
