Topic: No longer able to "log on"

I had trouble logging in to eBay yesterday. JBidWatcher was not loading all of my watched items, so I was fooling around settings and the installation. Looks like I tried to log in at some point with the wrong password, and eBay turned on their captcha security feature. I found a thread on the forum about this issue and the solution was to log in to eBay with a browser, then wait about a day for them to turn the captcha back off. Waited until this morning to run JBidWatcher and now it’s logging in OK.

Topic: No longer able to "log on"

Hi, Sounds like you have not set the proxy settings or you may need to grant JBidWatcher permission to get through your Firewall.

Regards
Hoddy

Topic: Yet another test version 1.0.2pre4

go my auction ok with a -10 sec snipe, using pre4/Mac OS X 10.4.10. so happy !

Topic: Yet another test version 1.0.2pre4

As Onslow said a couple of days ago – ‘Works brilliantly again!’ Using Mac OSX 10.4.10. Not tried snipping with it yet. But many thanks gor getting it going again!

Topic: Yet another test version 1.0.2pre4

Hi Morgan and all,

Using 1.0.2pre4 on OSX 10.4.10 :
Got weird timing/synchronization yesterday (huge delta of 22824) and a snipe (-10 sec) fired too late by some secs.
However, today, this seems fine (despite we changed anything) with a delta of -/+ 350. Fires prepared..

So much thanks ! Foifoif

Topic: Yet another test version 1.0.2pre4

Hi Morgan,

Another small datapoint, 1.0.2pre4 has been running fine on Vista since yesterday (pasting and updating auctions, snipes are still a couple of days away). Keeping my fingers crossed!

—Larry

Topic: Yet another test version 1.0.2pre4

Hi Morgan,

Just tried out 1.0.2pre4 on OSX 10.3.9

1.0.2pre4 got rid of two out of the three red eyes in my Jbidwatcher.

Tried to manually update the remaining red eye but no luck.

Also will not synchronise with ‘My eBay’ :-(

Can I just say that jbidwatcher is an AWESOME program and I really really appreciate all the time and effort that you put into bringing us this software.

I encourage all jbidwatcher users to send you a donation via PayPal.

It’s people like you who really make the internet a great place!!!

Take care,

Dean (SystemError)

Topic: Yet another test version 1.0.2pre4

In 1.0.2pre4 I have a prblem with time synchronisation with server time. My snipe was actually launched after the auction end. Synchronisation is turned on in my configuration. At the bottom of the screen it shows (without any updating) server is 17:32:50 EST while mine shows 17:32:53 EST/17:33:11 EST. In time information option it shows time delta as -21640. Any advice appreciated. Thanks.

Topic: Yet another test version 1.0.2pre4

Meanwhile a snipe worked sucessfully (although my bid was slightly to low, so I lost in the end).

But the bug preventing from quitting seems more severe than it looked at the first time.

JBW has started to log the following error message every second. Log size is now about 28 MBytes and increasing.

Tue Jul 24 07:47:34 CEST 2007: Exception during the check() operation of class AuctionsManager
java.lang.NullPointerException at AuctionInfo.toXML(Unknown Source) at AuctionEntry.toXML(Unknown Source) at AuctionServer.toXML(Unknown Source) at AuctionServerManager.toXML(Unknown Source) at AuctionsManager.saveAuctions(Unknown Source) at AuctionsManager.checkSnapshot(Unknown Source) at AuctionsManager.check(Unknown Source) at TimerHandler.run(Unknown Source)

At least Martin Bürkel (see http://forum.jbidwatcher.com/forums/1/topics/10…) and I can reproduce this problem.

To support fixing: Which data should I provide?

Thanks to all working on JBW!

Regards

Stefan

Topic: Yet another test version 1.0.2pre4

Well, Pre4 worked ok last night (won 2 out of 3), but the red eye is back. However, if eBay is having a problem, lets hope they can fix it ASAP. I really appreciate all the work you put into this, it is the best software on my machine!

russ132
AKA Ray

Topic: Yet another test version 1.0.2pre4

HI Morgan,

Great job getting things back on line – Thanks!

A couple of funnies still in 1.0.2pre4 on my Win2K system here in Scotland.

1. Cannot shut down Jbid other than through task manager – after refusing to close jbid causes CPU load to briefly jump approx 20% in regular 1 second cycles until forced to shut-down.

2. Deleted auctions won’t stay deleted. – After a re-start, re-run searches bring back previously deleted auctions. I think this may have something to do with not shutting down correctly – see above.

Keep up the great work!

Topic: Yet another test version 1.0.2pre4

T*HAN*KS* Morgan,

its true. JBW is the most usefull and sneaky lean and easy to use soft on my sytem. I LOVE IT.

Works well on WXPSP2 in all aspects I could test so far.

Topic: Yet another test version 1.0.2pre4

Greetings,

Yeah…wow.

I dug into what was causing the occasional red-eye issues, to see if there was anything I could do. There isn’t.

The eBay page or feature you are attempting to access is not responding.”
Please try the options below:

• Try to access the feature directly from the eBay Home Page, instead of using a bookmark.
• Wait a few minutes and try to access the feature again.

If you have waited ten to fifteen minutes and you still can’t access your page:
Check our Announcement Board to see if the feature is currently unavailable.

If what you are looking for is unavailable, you may still be able to access other parts of the site from the eBay Home page

This means eBay is having system issues. It’s probably one or two boxes that aren’t responding well, and when the load-balancer sends the request to them, it fails. :(

That problem should go away as eBay fixes up their system.

— Morgan Schweers, CyberFOX!

Topic: Yet another test version 1.0.2pre4

Seems to be working OK most of the time on Winxp Pro, but I am getting the same random failure to update mentioned above.
My log shows the following entries:
Mon Jul 23 09:55:07 BST 2007: Failed to load auction title from header: “eBay”
Mon Jul 23 09:55:07 BST 2007: Failed to parse auction! Bad return result from auction server.
Mon Jul 23 13:55:25 BST 2007: Failed to load auction title from header: “eBay”
Mon Jul 23 13:55:25 BST 2007: Failed to parse auction! Bad return result from auction server.
Mon Jul 23 14:33:43 BST 2007: Failed to load auction title from header: “eBay”
Mon Jul 23 14:33:43 BST 2007: Failed to parse auction! Bad return result from auction server.
Mon Jul 23 14:35:20 BST 2007: Failed to load auction title from header: “eBay”
Mon Jul 23 14:35:20 BST 2007: Failed to parse auction! Bad return result from auction server.
Mon Jul 23 15:15:34 BST 2007: Failed to load auction title from header: “eBay”
Mon Jul 23 15:15:34 BST 2007: Failed to parse auction! Bad return result from auction server.

Auctions update manually ok.

Hope this helps!

Topic: Yet another test version 1.0.2pre4

Works perfectly on Win XP in France.

Thanks a million times.

Topic: Yet another test version 1.0.2pre4

well done! :-D

vibes!
elektr4 on OSX 10.4.10

Topic: Yet another test version 1.0.2pre4

OK !!!! OSX 10.4.10 seems to be work ! I get MyEbay items and bid correctly !!!!

THANKS A LOT!

Bye

Topic: Yet another test version 1.0.2pre4

Hi Morgan,

sucessfully imported “my Ebay” with the new auctions and also snipe two perfectly tonight !

sincerely, Roman

Topic: Yet another test version 1.0.2pre4

I can confirm the reports from other users that the red-eyes sporadically come and go for me, also, using 1.0.2pre4 under OSX10.3. There seems to be no pattern as to which auctions will show the red-eye during which automatic updates, and they all go away immediately when each offending auction is manually updated.

The console log shows that this pair of messages is the most common cause:
Sun Jul 22 23:45:10 CEST 2007: Failed to load auction title from header: “eBay”
Sun Jul 22 23:45:10 CEST 2007: Failed to parse auction! Bad return result from auction server.

However, this type of message also appears on occasion (but so far not twice for the same auction):
Sun Jul 22 23:45:10 CEST 2007: Sun Jul 22 23:45:10 CEST 2007: 160140122552 (BT duet 20 cow phone) – Failed to load from server! (1)
Mon Jul 23 03:19:32 CEST 2007: Mon Jul 23 03:19:32 CEST 2007: 300131118529 (Seinfeld – Season 3 (2004, DVD) New in Box -) – Failed to load from server! (1)
Mon Jul 23 06:27:36 CEST 2007: Mon Jul 23 06:27:36 CEST 2007: 200131256072 (BT Novelty MOO MOOO Cow Phone Corded Home Telephone NEW) – Failed to load from server! (1)
Mon Jul 23 06:43:46 CEST 2007: Mon Jul 23 06:43:46 CEST 2007: 120143569049 (Seinfeld – Series 1 And 2 (DVD 2004)[dvd box set] -) – Failed to load from server! (1)

David

Topic: Yet another test version 1.0.2pre4

Hi Morgan,

I’m in Australia 1.0.2 pre1 only displayed US auctions in myebay items but 1.0.2pre4 seems to be working well.
Haven’t sniped anything yet though.

great piece of software btw

Dave

Topic: Yet another test version 1.0.2pre4

Have just installed windows pre4 on Vista using eBay Australia. Auctions now appear to be updating again, although 2 of them had redeye until I had run ‘Update Auction’ several times. Looks good so far. I have a snipe set in about 7 hours so will report back then.

Big pat on the back to Morgan and everyone else working so hard on this. JBW is immensely useful software that I love, use and recommend regularly.

Thanks,
Clive (South Australia)

Topic: Yet another test version 1.0.2pre4

I can confirm dl6dx’s experience – matches my own under SuSE Linux 10.0

Topic: Yet another test version 1.0.2pre4

Salutations,
Just to say thanks to Morgan Schweers and others who are working so hard to keep the program working. It must be really frustrating to see your efforts twarted, so often, by the antics of the EBay program managers. Keep up the good work – your efforts are really appreciated.

Topic: Yet another test version 1.0.2pre4

Get my eBay items and update works for me, too. Thanks a lot.

But the log still contains a number of irritating messages and it won’t terminate.

Mon Jul 23 01:34:57 CEST 2007: Getting the sign in cookie. [dl6dx@ebay: 23-Jul-2007 01:34:57 CEST/23-Jul-2007 01:34:57 CEST]
Mon Jul 23 01:35:13 CEST 2007: Loading page 0 of My eBay for user dl6dx
Mon Jul 23 01:35:13 CEST 2007: URL: http://my.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?MyeBay&LogU…:ME:PAGE&FolderId=&GotoPage=1
Mon Jul 23 01:35:16 CEST 2007: Loading page: http://my.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?MyeBay&Curr…
Mon Jul 23 01:35:18 CEST 2007: Loaded 200130198579.
Mon Jul 23 01:35:18 CEST 2007: No items on page!
Mon Jul 23 01:35:20 CEST 2007: Loaded 150143812286.
Mon Jul 23 01:35:21 CEST 2007: Loaded 320139396572.
Mon Jul 23 01:35:23 CEST 2007: Loaded 180141024543.
Mon Jul 23 01:35:24 CEST 2007: Loaded 260141549462.
Mon Jul 23 01:35:26 CEST 2007: Loaded 260040121183.
Mon Jul 23 01:36:03 CEST 2007: Loading page 0 of My eBay for user dl6dx
Mon Jul 23 01:36:03 CEST 2007: URL: http://my.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?MyeBay&LogU…:ME:PAGE&FolderId=&GotoPage=1
Mon Jul 23 01:36:07 CEST 2007: Not loaded (url http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&i…).
Mon Jul 23 01:36:07 CEST 2007: Not loaded (url http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&i…).
Mon Jul 23 01:36:07 CEST 2007: Not loaded (url http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&i…).
Mon Jul 23 01:36:07 CEST 2007: Not loaded (url http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&i…).
Mon Jul 23 01:36:07 CEST 2007: Not loaded (url http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&i…).
Mon Jul 23 01:36:07 CEST 2007: Loading page: http://my.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?MyeBay&Curr…
Mon Jul 23 01:36:07 CEST 2007: Not loaded (url http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&i…).
Mon Jul 23 01:36:09 CEST 2007: No items on page!
Mon Jul 23 01:36:39 CEST 2007: SMQ Caught exception: java.lang.NullPointerException
java.lang.NullPointerException at AuctionInfo.toXML(Unknown Source) at AuctionEntry.toXML(Unknown Source) at AuctionServer.toXML(Unknown Source) at AuctionServerManager.toXML(Unknown Source) at AuctionsManager.saveAuctions(Unknown Source) at JBidWatch.internal_shutdown(Unknown Source) at JBidWatch.shutdown(Unknown Source) at JBidWatch.messageAction(Unknown Source) at SwingMessageQueue.run(Unknown Source) at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(Unknown Source) at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(Unknown Source) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(Unknown Source) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(Unknown Source) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(Unknown Source)

Environment: Sun Java 6 (Update 02) in XP.

May be it’s just a minor problem?

Regards

Stefan

Topic: Yet another test version 1.0.2pre4

Morgan, thanks for the speedy updates. I’m still getting the occasional “red eye” on queued items—they periodically appear on an update, clear on a later update, then appear again, etc.

Relative the number of items queued, it’s only a small fraction of listings that behave in this manner. An example would be item #160139144441 (ebay.com) but it just cleared the red eye (again) on the last update.

OS X 10.4.10 / Intel