Bug 344985 – xfce-extra/xfce4-weather-plugin-0.7.3-r1 crashes with xfce4-panel >= 4.7

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Vladimir 2010-11-10 21:59:49 UTC]

After a recent Xfce update xfce4-weather-plugin doesn't work any more.
When I start xfce4-panel from the terminal (to see the error log) and try to add a Weather plugin to it, I get the following error message:

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(xfce4-panel:11355): xfconf-WARNING **: Error check failed at IA__xfconf_channel_has_property():639: Property "/plugins/plugin-19" does not exist on channel "xfce4-panel"
The program 'xfce4-weather-plugin' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'.
  (Details: serial 171 error_code 8 request_code 70 minor_code 0)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

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Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge xfce-base/xfce4-panel-4.7.4
2. emerge xfce-extra/xfce4-weather-plugin-0.7.3-r1
3. Try to add a Weather plugin to the panel

[Comment 1 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) 2010-11-10 22:17:12 UTC]

Indeed, it will be masked for removal if there is not update from upstream by the time 4.8 final is out.

[Comment 2 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) 2010-12-27 22:56:13 UTC]

# Samuli Suominen <[e-mail]> (25 Dec 2010)
#
# xfce4-weather-plugin, runtime crash, should be ported to libxfce4ui etc.
# http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=344985
# http://git.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-weather-plugin/
#
<...>
#
# These need to be fixed by January, otherwise they'll get removed from tree when 4.8.0 goes stable.
xfce-extra/xfce4-weather-plugin

[Comment 3 Vladimir 2011-01-05 09:03:31 UTC]

There is an upstream bugreport on this issue:
http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6965

[Comment 4 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2011-01-11 10:18:41 UTC]

This plug-in was removed from tree because it's not compatible with Xfce Panel 4.7/4.8 -> Closing as WONTFIX

[Comment 5 Pierre 2011-02-23 22:34:57 UTC]

I'm sorry but the upstream bug has been fixed so there may be a solution

[Comment 6 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2011-02-23 22:39:02 UTC]

Yeah, this should be fixed with 0.7.4 (in portage)