Seeing a lot of these in our error.log:
[2013-11-13 12:29:13] JTracker.ERROR: 404 Bad Route {"message":"Unable to handle request for route `images/avatars/waptug.png`."} {"url":"/images/avatars/waptug.png","ip":"X.X.X.X","http_method":"GET","server":"issues.joomla.org","referrer":"http://issues.joomla.org/tracker/joomla-cms-3-issues/2496"}
Not sure where they're coming from, but from what I recall, avatars should be getting pulled whenever someone logs in or they are associated with some of the hook activities.
Hrm.. could you check that
tracker.php get avatars the image in question is downloaded?If that's true, I think we should run get avatars at the end of every update action (from the hooks)
?
Finally got around to running that. We'll see what kinds of things are logged now.
Sorry I should have tested first... Seems there is (again) some issue with avatar downloading..
Since we have a debug mode (i forgot about that since it's undocumented :P) this brings up:
$ ./tracker.php get avatars -v --noprogress
...
+DEBUG Fetching avatar for user: aapis
+DEBUG Fetching avatar for user: aaronhudon
DEBUG Can not retrieve the avatar for user aaronhudon
+DEBUG Fetching avatar for user: aaronschmitz
+DEBUG Fetching avatar for user: Achal-Aggarwal
DEBUG Can not retrieve the avatar for user Achal-Aggarwal
+DEBUG Fetching avatar for user: aDaneInSpain
+DEBUG Fetching avatar for user: adidac
+DEBUG Fetching avatar for user: adrianrosian
+DEBUG Fetching avatar for user: advans
DEBUG Can not retrieve the avatar for user advans
+DEBUG Fetching avatar for user: aekboy2010
...
There are a lot with no apparent reason..
So I added (again) the lovely user-default.png: 
That's happy smiley ;)
I like our happy default. Much friendlier than the Joomlacode or Facebook outlines
So let's hope we got this fixed for now..
Will look into it.?
BTW - I think we can use the "assign" feature if somebody is going to work on an issue - but PLEASE only assign yourself and not others