weather plugin crashes

[daniele favara]

On 4/27/06, Jasper Huijsmans <jasper at xfce.org> wrote:
> Foxy schreef:
> > 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
> >>
> >>
> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>
> >>
> >> 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".
>
> These bugs only show with newer versions of glib (2.10.x). They are bugs
> in the plugin, but old glib didn't make it crash.
>

ok .. but isn't it strange that here it just works ?

i'm on an updated xubuntu dapper

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