My friend is trying to install MediaGoblin but it breaks when he tries to upload a JPG. That might not be the end of the world by itself, but there's an unhandled exception when the code tries to save information about the failure, so it's really difficult to tell what went on. This bug is about fixing that exception.

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

Viewing an image results in the following error for me:

UndefinedError: 'configobj.Section object' has no attribute 'geolocation_map_visible'

I've been able to work around this issue by inserting the following line into the [mediagoblin] section of my mediagoblin_local.ini:

geolocation_map_visible = true

I have the geolocation plugin enabled and I'm using CELERY_ALWAYS_EAGER=true.

Let me know if you need more information.