243845 - bugzilla barfs if you try to watch a non-existent user

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 233124

(Bugzilla :: Bugzilla-General, defect)

Description

[Rob Siklos [:robzilla]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
Build Identifier: 

If you try and become the watcher of a non-existent user, bugzilla will spit 
out all sorts of crazy errors.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to the e-mail tab in user preferences
2. try to watch a user which doesn't exist


Actual Results:  
2 pages of errors starting with:

Template->process() failed twice.
First error: undef error - DBD::mysql::st execute failed: Table 'namedqueries' 
was not locked with LOCK TABLES [for statement `` SELECT name, query, 
linkinfooter, public FROM namedqueries WHERE userid=? or public=1 ORDER BY UPPER
(name)'']) at Bugzilla/User.pm line 170 Bugzilla::User::queries
('Bugzilla::User=HASH(0x8902b9c)') called at 
data/template/template/en/custom/global/useful-links.html.tmpl

Expected Results:  
A user-friendly error

Comment 1

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 233124 ***