We are using the LDAP plugin for authentication. However, when we enable LDAP, after entering username and password, the site returns with

== Unhandled Exception ==
 

An unhandled exception was thrown by the application.

Pretty ugly...Proper error management and a nice error message at least would help because now we are stuck because we don't know if the config is wrong or there is a problem with mediagoblin.

Here's the config:

[plugins]
[[mediagoblin.plugins.geolocation]]
#[[mediagoblin.plugins.basic_auth]]
[[mediagoblin.media_types.image]]
[[mediagoblin.plugins.ldap]]
[[[server1]]]
LDAP_SERVER_URI = 'ldap://10.10.10.7:389'
LDAP_BIND_DN = 'cn=admin,dc=<HIDDEN>,dc=cc'
LDAP_BIND_PW = '<HIDDEN>'
LDAP_USER_DN_TEMPLATE = 'cn={username},ou=Users,dc=<HIDDEN>,dc=cc'
EMAIL_SEARCH_FIELD = 'mail'

The log file only prints:

2014-09-28 19:37:01,106 INFO    [mediagoblin.plugins.ldap.tools] Connecting to ldap://10.10.10.7:389.
2014-09-28 19:37:01,106 INFO    [mediagoblin.plugins.ldap.tools] Unbinding ldap://10.10.10.7:389.

So it seems it DOES connect to LDAP but for some reason it fails.

Using mediagoblin 0.7.1

Since the python 3 merge, database migrations no longer work. To produce the error you should run ./devtools/make_example_database.sh on the latest master (as of writing this it's ​1a2982d) to produce a un-migrated database. Then do ./bin/gmg dbupdate you will find an error will occur:

-> Updating main mediagoblin tables:
   + Running migration 19, "drop_MediaEntry_collected"... Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./bin/gmg", line 9, in <module>
    load_entry_point('mediagoblin==0.7.2.dev', 'console_scripts', 'gmg')()
  File "/Users/jessica/Documents/Workspace/mediagoblin/mediagoblin/gmg_commands/__init__.py", line 130, in main_cli
    args.func(args)
  File "/Users/jessica/Documents/Workspace/mediagoblin/mediagoblin/gmg_commands/dbupdate.py", line 160, in dbupdate
    run_dbupdate(app_config, global_config)
  File "/Users/jessica/Documents/Workspace/mediagoblin/mediagoblin/gmg_commands/dbupdate.py", line 128, in run_dbupdate
    run_all_migrations(db, app_config, global_config)
  File "/Users/jessica/Documents/Workspace/mediagoblin/mediagoblin/gmg_commands/dbupdate.py", line 155, in run_all_migrations
    migration_manager.init_or_migrate()
  File "/Users/jessica/Documents/Workspace/mediagoblin/mediagoblin/db/migration_tools.py", line 286, in init_or_migrate
    migration_func(self.session)
  File "/Users/jessica/Documents/Workspace/mediagoblin/mediagoblin/db/migrations.py", line 724, in drop_MediaEntry_collected
    media_collected.drop()
  File "build/bdist.macosx-10.9-x86_64/egg/sqlalchemy/sql/expression.py", line 2855, in __getattr__
AttributeError: Neither 'Column' object nor 'Comparator' object has an attribute 'drop'

The version of SQLAlchemy that I'm using is: 0.8.7

When adding media via the commandline, UTF8 characters in either --title or --description cause a UnicodeDecodeError:

(mediagoblin)[gmg@dichromate mediagoblin]$ gmg addmedia moggers87 doge.png --title "test ß"
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/gmg/mediagoblin/bin/gmg", line 9, in <module>
    load_entry_point('mediagoblin==0.7.0', 'console_scripts', 'gmg')()
  File "/home/gmg/mediagoblin/mediagoblin/gmg_commands/__init__.py", line 124, in main_cli
    args.func(args)
  File "/home/gmg/mediagoblin/mediagoblin/gmg_commands/addmedia.py", line 95, in addmedia
    title=maybe_unicodeify(args.title),
  File "/home/gmg/mediagoblin/mediagoblin/gmg_commands/addmedia.py", line 88, in maybe_unicodeify
    return unicode(some_string)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 5: ordinal not in range(128)

The cause of this error is in the maybe_unicodify method ​here. Python 2 defaults to decoding strings to Unicode as ASCII - simply adding "utf8" as the second argument will solve this issue.