I'm writing this from my Piefed server because my Friendica server, my-place.social, can no longer view helpers@forum.friendi.ca. I get a 500 error. As far as I can tell, viewing all other groups and contacts works fine.

This problem may be related to the Wasabi outage from yesterday. I use Wasabi S3 for image storage, and they had a partial outage yesterday that caused obvious issues on the server, like blurred images. I say this because the exception may be image related.

This is the error in the friendica log:

2024-11-30T13:23:16Z app [ERROR]: ** Uncaught Exception TypeError: "Friendica\Object\Image::__construct(): Argument #1 ($data) must be of type string, null given, ** called in /var/www/html/src/Object/Image.php on line 781" at /var/www/html/src/Object/Image.php line 62 {"exception":"TypeError: Friendica\Object\Image::__construct(): Argument #1 ($data) must be of type string, null given, called in /var/www/html/src/Object/Image.php on line 781 and defined in /var/www/html/src/Object/Image.php:62\nStack trace:\n#0 /var/www/html/src/Object/Image.php(781): Friendica\Object\Image->__construct()\n#1 /var/www/html/src/Model/Post/Link.php(152): Friendica\Object\Image->getBlurHash()\n#2 /var/www/html/src/Model/Post/Link.php(79): Friendica\Model\Post\Link::fetchMimeType()\n#3 /var/www/html/src/Content/Text/BBCode.php(321): Friendica\Model\Post\Link::getByLink()\n#4 /var/www/html/src/Content/Text/BBCode.php(861): Friendica\Content\Text\BBCode::proxyUrl()\n#5 [internal function]: Friendica\Content\Text\BBCode::Friendica\Content\Text\{closure}()\n#6 /var/www/html/src/Content/Text/BBCode.php(851): preg_replace_callback()\n#7 /var/www/html/src/Content/Text/BBCode.php(1883): Friendica\Content\Text\BBCode::convertImages()\n#8 /var/www/html/src/Content/Text/BBCode.php(1389): Friendica\Content\Text\BBCode::convertImagesToHtml()\n#9 /var/www/html/src/Util/Strings.php(517): Friendica\Content\Text\BBCode::Friendica\Content\Text\{closure}()\n#10 /var/www/html/src/Content/Text/BBCode.php(2517): Friendica\Util\Strings::performWithEscapedBlocks()\n#11 /var/www/html/src/Content/Text/BBCode.php(1324): Friendica\Content\Text\BBCode::performWithEscapedTags()\n#12 /var/www/html/src/Util/Strings.php(517): Friendica\Content\Text\BBCode::Friendica\Content\Text\{closure}()\n#13 /var/www/html/src/Content/Text/BBCode.php(2517): Friendica\Util\Strings::performWithEscapedBlocks()\n#14 /var/www/html/src/Content/Text/BBCode.php(1323): Friendica\Content\Text\BBCode::performWithEscapedTags()\n#15 /var/www/html/src/Content/Text/BBCode.php(1283): Friendica\Content\Text\BBCode::convert()\n#16 /var/www/html/src/Model/Item.php(3340): Friendica\Content\Text\BBCode::convertForUriId()\n#17 /var/www/html/src/Model/Item.php(3471): Friendica\Model\Item::putInCache()\n#18 /var/www/html/src/Object/Post.php(464): Friendica\Model\Item::prepareBody()\n#19 /var/www/html/src/Object/Post.php(655): Friendica\Object\Post->getTemplateData()\n#20 /var/www/html/src/Object/Post.php(655): Friendica\Object\Post->getTemplateData()\n#21 /var/www/html/src/Object/Post.php(655): Friendica\Object\Post->getTemplateData()\n#22 /var/www/html/src/Object/Thread.php(204): Friendica\Object\Post->getTemplateData()\n#23 /var/www/html/src/Content/Conversation.php(680): Friendica\Object\Thread->getTemplateData()\n#24 /var/www/html/src/Content/Conversation.php(583): Friendica\Content\Conversation->getThreadList()\n#25 /var/www/html/src/Model/Contact.php(1725): Friendica\Content\Conversation->render()\n#26 /var/www/html/src/Module/Contact/Conversations.php(123): Friendica\Model\Contact::getThreadsFromId()\n#27 /var/www/html/src/BaseModule.php(250): Friendica\Module\Contact\Conversations->content()\n#28 /var/www/html/src/App.php(682): Friendica\BaseModule->run()\n#29 /var/www/html/index.php(46): Friendica\App->runFrontend()\n#30 {main}"} - {"file":null,"line":null,"function":null,"request-id":"674b11c1ce218","stack":"ErrorHandler::handleException (128), ErrorHandler::Friendica\Core\Logger\Handler\{closure}","uid":"caec99","process_id":9285}

I tried updating the contact information, unfollowing/following. I can't view it from any other account on the server. I assume the contact record in the database is corrupted.

I thought of playing with the .console archive function to archive the contact and see if I can follow it again to have the server build a new record, but stuff like this could have unintended consequences. So, I'm reaching out first.

Does anyone have advice on how to fix this?