socket.gaierror Name or Service not known

[GoogleCodeExporter]

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. googlecl installed on Ubuntu 11.04
2. run "google picasa post <album> <path to picture>
3. Do this 50 times until error spits out

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Expect: Loading file <path to picture> to album <album>
Instead:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/google", line 849, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/google", line 835, in main
    run_once(options, args)
  File "/usr/bin/google", line 627, in run_once
    task.run(client, options, args)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/googlecl/picasa/__init__.py", line 252, in _run_post
    title=options.title)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/googlecl/picasa/service.py", line 262, in get_single_album
    return self.GetSingleEntry(uri, title=title)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/googlecl/base.py", line 291, in get_single_entry
    desired_class)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/googlecl/base.py", line 220, in get_entries
    feed = self.GetFeed(uri)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/gdata/photos/service.py", line 177, in GetFeed
    return self.Get(uri, converter=gdata.photos.AnyFeedFromString)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/googlecl/service.py", line 59, in retry_get
    return self.retry_operation(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/googlecl/base.py", line 387, in retry_operation
    raise unexpected
socket.gaierror: [Errno -2] Name or service not known

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? 
What
version of gdata-python-client (aka python-gdata)?
0.9.13-1_all.deb on Ubuntu 11.04 with python-gdata 2.0.1-1.1

Please provide any additional information below.
I'm using a bash script to post pictures to albums on picasa, this occurs on 1 
out of 40-50 attempts.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by John.Nev...@gmail.com on 24 Jun 2011 at 2:24

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Couldn't replicate the problem. It seems like there is no such problem any 
more. The issue was reporter over 18 months ago, so I'm closing this now.

Original comment by szy...@endpoint.com on 29 Dec 2012 at 7:33

• Changed state: WontFix

[GoogleCodeExporter]

I was getting the same error. And it turned out that for me it was a proxy 
issue. It was working fine when I was in one network, but when I moved to 
another my proxy settings changed and I did not reflect that on my command line 
http_proxy var. Once I did that googlecl worked for me.

Original comment by saurabh....@gmail.com on 13 Jul 2013 at 2:10