weather plugin crashes

[Foxy]

Jani Monoses wrote:
>
> On 4/27/06, *j Mak* <joz_mak at yahoo.ca <mailto:joz_mak at yahoo.ca>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>     I've just updated xubuntu and the new weather plugin crashed when
>     I clicked on the Find Location code button. When I tried finding
>     the code with inputting the zip code the plugin did nothing. I
>     repeated this by inputting the names of other cities but the
>     plugin crushed each time.  Does anyone experience similar problems?
>     J. Mak
>
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>
> Yes, we experienced similar problems. If this is not fixed by upstream 
> or someone else very soon the weather plugin will probably not be on 
> the CD. Right now we try to ship as many plugins as possible to get 
> some testing but some are not
> well tested with the 4.4 panel yet.
>
> Jani
yes, weather plugin became notoriously crashy. However, I have a very 
old installation of xfce4 from svn on my desktop on Breezy (I last 
updated it maybe few moths ago) and the weather plugin is rock solid 
there. Either something was changed in panel api or new versions of glib 
in Dapper causes the crashes. This is the error I seemed to have from gdb:

>
> *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x080a1590 ***
>
> ** (xfce4-panel:5349): CRITICAL **: An item was unexpectedly removed: 
> "Weather Update". 
anyway, the plugin seems abandoned :(