Comments on: Back into the swing of things

By: sakuramboo

sakuramboo — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 02:16:59 +0000

Upon closing the login window, I get…

Calling auth.getSession… finished
Calling fql.query… finished
-> got my details
Calling notifications.get… finished
-> notification changes detected
Downloading …
finished

And then it becomes non-responsive.

By: nemolivier

nemolivier — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:27:54 +0000

ok, work great this morning ! I now have it running.
Thank’s a lot.

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» Some More Software Johns Blog — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 04:10:49 +0000

[...] Reaction to the posting of my Facebook notifier for GNOME was positive, and I made a few quick fixes to remove some crasher [...]

By: John Stowers

John Stowers — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:05:38 +0000

@all: I just pushed a fix that should stop the segfault. Can you please test again?

By: John Stowers

John Stowers — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:21:34 +0000

@nemoliver:

This is a crash in webkit. I get a similar sequence of messages, but no segfault

facebook parsing using: XML (N/A)
Calling auth.createToken… finished
** Message: NP_Initialize
** Message: NP_Initialize succeeded
** Message: NP_Initialize
** Message: NP_Initialize succeeded
** Message: NP_Initialize
** Message: NP_Initialize succeeded
** Message: NP_Initialize
** Message: NP_Initialize succeeded
Calling auth.getSession… finished

I’m not really sure what the root cause is - I can reliably trigger the crash by destroying the window. I work around it by just hiding it. On your setup this does not appear to be enough. I would suggest reporting the bug into the webkit (http://webkit.org/quality/reporting.html), pywebkit (http://code.google.com/p/pywebkitgtk/) and distribution bug trackers.

Sorry I cannot be more help.

By: nemolivier

nemolivier — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:23:10 +0000

Hello John,

The last code run better… but :
The applet launch, I can clic on « connect », a new ffx windows open, I log into my facebook count and autorize the application. The a « you can close this windows » appear. When I close it, the applet quit segfault : http://bepo.pastebin.com/m4b3e25d7

Looking into synaptic I have both json and simplejson (this last one depend on python 2.6). They both are the ubuntu-universe.

Thank’s a lot for taking time on this.

By: John Stowers

John Stowers — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:33:54 +0000

@nemoliver, zeeshan: I just pushed a fix that should improve the robustness of the python facebook api library to different json parsing libraries [1] that might be present on your system.

[1] You may have one or more of Python 2.6 json, python-simplejson, python-jsonlib, python-json, python-json-py, or django

By: John Stowers

John Stowers — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:19:52 +0000

@nemoliver: Weird - Thats a bug in pyfacebook (the bindings to the facebook API I am using). Please see http://code.google.com/p/pyfacebook/issues/detail?id=106 and let me know if removing python-json and replacing it with python-simplejson works

By: nemolivier

nemolivier — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 08:23:02 +0000

Thank’s for the answer.

I’m not behind a proxy and all my web services seems to run smoothly (pidgin, ffx, dropbox, torents…).
I launch it from my terminal and here is the output : http://pastebin.com/m4ab40519

NémOlivier.

By: John Stowers

John Stowers — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 22:50:09 +0000

@Stemp: I have tried both versions, still crashes. See http://code.google.com/p/pywebkitgtk/issues/detail?id=23

@Vadium: The pages feature is excellent, and wikis, makes it a single place for project hosting. The interface is a lot simpler (launchpad menu structure is too deep). Things like fork-queue and watchers is intuitive - no need to manually sign up for a common team and nominate branches for merge like LP. The site is faster to load. Commits graphs are nicer. Can track a users activity on all branches from their profile. The source browser is better - LP loggerhead bzr code browser is terribly slow and unattractive. Etc etc

@Eetu: I dont like that whole microblogging business, and I felt like writing my own using only the Facebook API, which I presume to be more stable than their RSS feeds

@Zeeshan: Do you get additonal messages posted after that? i.e. every minute you should get Calling fql.query… finished. If this does not happen every minute then its a bug. It works by noticing changes in subsequent fql.query results for a number of differenct queries.

@Andrea: Thanks, I have commited the new icons.

@nemolivier: If it cannot get passed “trying to connect to facebook” it might be a connectivity problem. Are you behind a proxy?. Once it has connected to facebook, click on the notification icon, a menu should pop up and allow you to click “Connect”, which will then load a web browser to let you log in