Gajim idling error

January 8th, 2014

Just stumbled upon a small bug in Debian’s version of Gajim (0.15.4-2 – currently in testing and sid).

The following error occurs when Gajim starts to idle:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/gajim/src/common/xmpp/idlequeue.py", line 533, in _process_events
    return IdleQueue._process_events(self, fd, flags)
  File "/usr/share/gajim/src/common/xmpp/idlequeue.py", line 394, in _process_events
    obj.pollin()
  File "/usr/share/gajim/src/common/xmpp/transports_nb.py", line 420, in pollin
    self._do_receive()
  File "/usr/share/gajim/src/common/xmpp/transports_nb.py", line 606, in _do_receive
    self._on_receive(received)
  File "/usr/share/gajim/src/common/xmpp/transports_nb.py", line 620, in _on_receive
    self.on_receive(data)
  File "/usr/share/gajim/src/common/xmpp/dispatcher_nb.py", line 488, in dispatch
    handler['func'](session, stanza)
  File "/usr/share/gajim/src/common/connection_handlers.py", line 2009, in _StreamCB
    conn=self, stanza=obj))
NameError: global name 'obj' is not defined

This results in a dis- and a subsequent reconnection. As the traceback already suggests the error can be found in /usr/share/gajim/src/common/connection_handlers.py on line 2009. This is the corresponding function:

def _StreamCB(self, con, iq_obj):
        log.debug('StreamCB')
        gajim.nec.push_incoming_event(StreamReceivedEvent(None,
            conn=self, stanza=obj))

Obviously, there is no variable obj : The passed argument is called iq_obj … To fix that mistake just substitute the function definition with (replace iq_obj → obj in line 2006):

def _StreamCB(self, con, obj):
        log.debug('StreamCB')
        gajim.nec.push_incoming_event(StreamReceivedEvent(None,
            conn=self, stanza=obj))

This bug is already fixed in their repository (13861:239ec662de5a). Thus, this article is mainly for people not familiar with python/programming, who need a quick fix. (wasn’t able to find something on the Internet)

Btw. I’m not sure why, but this error just affected one of my four machines which are running Gajim.

Martin Scharm

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