ClearWeatherScreenlet.py crashed with TypeError in show_error()

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Hi, just a quick note to let you know that I'm running karmic 64bit and that the applet did *not* actually crash, I can still check the weather and everything... strange. I'm sure you'll sort it out. Cheers, --Mihai

My situation appears to match Mihai's; despite the report, I can still change size, switch format, etc.

Hi same as Mihai and James here!!!

Same here...

Hello, same as Jamie : just a crash report but all the weather widgets are still available.

Same here, weather still works even after the crash report.
This didnt occur until upgrading from 9.04 to 9.10
Thankyou

I don't think the thing is really crashing, it only seems to occur when it can't get network access. Instead of waiting and trying again later, lack of network access is throwing an exception.

This seems to have been introduced by debian/patches/16-clearweather-catch-connection-error.patch from Bug #264809

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/karmic/screenlets/karmic/annotate/head:/debian/patches/16-clearweather-catch-connection-error.patch

Same here, weather still works even after the crash report.
This didnt occur until upgrading from 9.10 to 10.04
Thankyou

Since a few days I get the traceback as indicated in the bug description. However, when running the screenlet from the command line, it also says "Error retrieving weather data [Errno socket error] [Errno -2] Name or service not known". This does not make the screenlet crash, but it says "No weather information available".
Has weather.com maybe changed its XML feed format?

I have the same problem, and I think it's because I'm on a wireless network, and the connection is not fully up yet when this screenlet tries to get its info from the Internet. Need to add a delay in the code.

with the updates i havent any problem, thanks any way

 Rubén Darío Orea
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De: heynnema <email address hidden>
Para: <email address hidden>
Enviado: sábado, 16 de octubre, 2010 19:32:09
Asunto: [Bug 420747] Re: ClearWeatherScreenlet.py crashed with TypeError in
show_error()

I have the same problem, and I think it's because I'm on a wireless
network, and the connection is not fully up yet when this screenlet
tries to get its info from the Internet. Need to add a delay in the
code.

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ClearWeatherScreenlet.py crashed with TypeError in show_error()
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This is still happening in 12.04. The problem is that the reason variable coming from an IOError is an (errno, strerror) tuple, so
  reasonstr = "\nReason: %s" % reason if reason is not None else ""
raises a TypeError. You could change this to
  reasonstr = "\nReason: %s" % str(reason)

For reason == None, this would result in "Reason: None", which I think is better than "".

For reason == (123, 'Some error'), it would result in "Reason: (123, 'Some error')" instead of crashing.

Of course, the IOError itself should be avoided by some delay, as well, as heynnema suggested, but this patch would at least avoid the crash.

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