gwibber-service crashed with error in readline(): [Errno 104] Connection reset by peer

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

This is currently the #1 crash report on errors.ubuntu.com

This bug was fixed in the package gwibber - 3.5.2-0ubuntu1

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gwibber (3.5.2-0ubuntu1) quantal; urgency=low

  * New upstream release
    - New twitter icons better matching twitter's guidelines, thanks
      Mark Tully (LP: #1012408)
    - foursquare: Changed to using urls based off Foursquare user ids rather
      than 'canonicalurl' due to 'canonicalurl' being removed from
      Foursquare's API (LP: #1012231)
    - foursquare: Added support for displaying 'likes', new to Foursquare API
  * debian/patches/lp_934530.patch
    - Catch IOError when opening a url with urllib2, prevents crash for
      connection reset errors (LP: #934530)
 -- Ken VanDine <email address hidden> Thu, 14 Jun 2012 22:56:53 -0400

Setting in "In Progress" since the fix is in the queue waiting for review by the SRU team

Hello Tommy, or anyone else affected,

Accepted gwibber into precise-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gwibber/3.4.2-0ubuntu2 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please change the bug tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not, change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

The new version seems to work fine, confirmed

This bug was fixed in the package gwibber - 3.4.2-0ubuntu2

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gwibber (3.4.2-0ubuntu2) precise-proposed; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/lp_1012231.patch
    - foursquare: Changed to using urls based off Foursquare user ids rather
      than 'canonicalurl' due to 'canonicalurl' being removed from
      Foursquare's API (LP: #1012231)
  * debian/patches/lp_934530.patch
    - Catch IOError when opening a url with urllib2, prevents crash for
      connection reset errors (LP: #934530)
 -- Ken VanDine <email address hidden> Wed, 27 Jun 2012 15:42:00 -0400