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Bug: Whatsapp causes ferdium to freeze if there is no notification system available

See original GitHub issue

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I have searched the issues tracker for a bug report similar to mine, in vain

Ferdium Version

Latest stable, but this has been around for a while

What Operating System are you using?

Other Linux

Operating System Version

EndeavourOS

What arch are you using?

x64

Last Known Working Ferdium version

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Expected Behavior

Receive WhatsApp message, Ferdium continues to work as usual

Actual Behavior

Receive WhatsApp message, Ferdium completely freezes with the error message:

libnotify-WARNING **: 14:52:33.659: Failed to connect to proxy

This error stops if you turn off all notifications from WhatsApp, and if you have a notifications program available then it works as expected. It is the same error as appears here, which is how I’ve tracked down the cause.

Steps to reproduce

Install any version of Ferdium Don’t run a notification service Set up the WhatsApp service Wait for someone to want to talk to you

Debug link

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Screenshots

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Additional information

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Issue Analytics

State:
Created a year ago
Comments:6 (1 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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RoryNesbittcommented, Nov 14, 2022

Also, I recently (like yesterday) have an issue with whatsapp making up random numbers of unread notifications when none exist. Just there I had 96 with one real unread message, and when I opened it so my true unread was back to 0 the count changed to 351. This doesn’t happen on a browser.

If this is unrelated I can open a new issue for it

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RoryNesbittcommented, Nov 15, 2022