Help Me Figure Out This Error

[Jeffro]

For the second time this month, I've had someone report that they get an error when they try to upload a custom Profile picture. Despite the error, the image was uploaded and set for their profile. I don't see the same error and I'm having a hard time trying to figure it out. Can someone try and replicate this issue by either re-uploading a custom profile picture and then pasting the error into this thread?

[anmari]

Hi Jeffro, This may be related (you do not say what the message was, but it is a custom field type thing and editing users...).

The editing user problem I have had occurs when I have previously had a plugin activated that stored it's own object data in the user meta (custom fields). Then if that plugin is deactivated, but the data is still there and one then does an update of the user, one gets a message like
Catchable fatal error: Object of class __PHP_Incomplete_Class could not be converted to string in ...\wp-includes\formatting.php on line 405


My notes http://webdesign.anmari.com/1746/una...rdpress-users/ on one such instance ( I had another when updating passwords when I converted some users for another site, but cannot find my notes on that except for this See notes here http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/9638) - it was related, but not to do with deactivated plugin, since the plugin in question was active there.

Both times patch 9640 fixed it and I was disappointed to discover recently that I still had to apply that patch to wp 3.01. (deactivated a plugin again!)

Have you tried doing an update on that user yourself to see if you can create the message (save their image and upload another, then put their image back)?


Hope that helps