[Bug 428498] Re: gwibber spams facebook with idle messages

[Pete Graner]

@Ken, after a late nite of experimenting, I found it did come from the
pidgin-facebook chat plugin. Somehow the "Update Facebook status through
Pidgin" got checked. So while I'm killing off gwibber its still updating
by status. It only stopped after I had rebooted, and I didn't restart
it. Thanks when it finally stopped. Not sure how it got ticked, I had
been running the plugin since the start of Karmic without issue. I check
my other machine that is running it and it was not checked. The only
difference between the two boxes is that my netbook (the one with the
issue) had a GPU lockup and I had to hardpower off the box.

** Changed in: gwibber (Ubuntu)
       Status: Invalid => New

** Summary changed:

- gwibber spams facebook with idle messages
+ pidgin-facebookchat spams facebook with idle messages

** Description changed:

- Binary package hint: gwibber
+ Binary package hint: pidgin-facebookchat
  
  Pete Graner's gwibber locked up and apparently started posting idle
  messages to facebook every 10 min or so:
  
  http://www.facebook.com/pwgraner?ref=nf
  
  It would be good to make sure this bug is fixed before too many more
  people experience it.
  
  ===
  
  10:56 -!- Irssi: Starting query in 127 with pgraner
  10:56 <ccheney> you need to fix your gwibber setup, its spamming facebook about
                  every 10 minutes
  11:48 <pgraner> Thanks, that piece of **** locked up and I couldn't kill it, I
                  had to reboot to make it stop
  11:54 <ccheney> lol
  11:55 <pgraner> I killed the GUI and I guess the backend didn't die and it was 
                  still posting after I thought I had killed it. *sigh*
  11:55 <ccheney> heh
  11:56 <ccheney> probably should file a bug about it too :)
  11:56 <ccheney> don't want to see thousands of ubuntu users all having that 
                  happen on facebook, lol
  11:56 <pgraner> Yea just point it at my facebook account
  11:57 <pgraner> There needs to be some sort of throttling if the last few 
                  messages are identical or some shit like that
  11:57 <pgraner> yea, I don't know what debugging I can give other than I left 
                  gwibber running and facebook got spammed
  11:57 <pgraner> I'm afraid to start it back up
  11:58 <pgraner> I'm already the "facebook spammer"
  11:58 <pgraner> heh
  11:59 <ccheney> ok

** Package changed: gwibber (Ubuntu) => pidgin-facebookchat (Ubuntu)

** Changed in: pidgin-facebookchat (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: Ken VanDine (ken-vandine) => (unassigned)

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