weather plugin crashes

[daniele favara]

On 4/27/06, Jasper Huijsmans <jasper at xfce.org> wrote:
> daniele favara schreef:
> ...
> >>>>
> >>>> 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
> >
>
> You're just lucky, I guess ;-)
>

figured out that ...

"search genoa" (my city) doesn't crash ... paris crashes ... ny
doesnt' .. but i guess it's not the best way to debug it .. it may
take time :)

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