As another gentoo user has reported upstream here: https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14182 I got regular core dumps from the sensors-plugin. A quick look with gdb shows it segfaults in the sensors_write_config routine. As the xfce panel automatically restarts the crashed plugin this bug is only visible as a short flashing of the panel. Now I fetched the actual code marked 1.3.0-alpha from master and tested that. The bug seems to be fixed.
Thanks for the report. Could you try to figure out why it segfaults, more specifically? Given that this version just went stable, I'd like to know how many users are going to have that problem. Finding specific upstream commit fixing this would be even better but it might be lost in the lot of recent refactoring.
Sorry, I will not do any more debugging, since the latest code now works for me. But looking at the commit messages, this one seems to be a very good candidate: https://github.com/xfce-mirror/xfce4-sensors-plugin/commit/f9904f1771b6538ca4b2f7e81b51ef1d8a6fdc6f
FWIW I don't get a segfault with xfce-extra/xfce4-sensors-plugin-1.2.98, so I can't verify if the above commit would make a different in my case.
Because of this bug upstream has now released version 1.3.0. See the bug report linked above.
These are good news. You can test it already and help the maintainer with further information: Does a simple bump [1] work on your system? [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Custom_repository#Simple_version_bump_of_an_ebuild_in_the_local_overlay
As I mentioned in the bug description, I am now successfully running the "near" 1.3.0-release version from a few days ago, build with the unchanged ebuild from version 1.2.98. Since then there has been only a translation update and a minor change to the build system.
Marking as fixed by 1.3.0 hopefully. Feel free to reopen if you can reproduce it after upgraindg to 1.3.0.
