Date & Time applet in control center does not start

[Jérôme Poulin]

After upgrade to 13.10, going to control center and clicking on Date & Time causes the control center to relaunch in a loop and taking the focus each relaunch.

Killing the control center stops the loop but there's no way for me to configure it, also, clock does not appear in the top right at the moment.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)]

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1197647

[Lars Karlitski (larsu)]

indicator-datime installs the panel into /usr/lib/x86_64, where gnome-control-center doesn't find it. G-c-c then assumes this is an external panel and executes the Exec line, which is `gnome-control-center indicator-datetime`. That's when the whole thing starts again.

[Charles Kerr (charlesk)]

This regression was introduced in http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~indicator-applet-developers/indicator-datetime/trunk.13.10/revision/229, which removed the --enable-localinstall option and made this change to src/Makefile.am:

> - ccpaneldir = $(CCPANELDIR)
> + ccpaneldir = $(libdir)/control-center-1/panels/

We could fix this by reverting r229, but that would reintroduce the installs-files-outside-of-$(prefix) behavior that r229 fixed.

A better fix, if possible, would be for debian/ to set libdir s.t. our G-c-c panel is installed alongside all the other panels.

A third option, which might be overkill, would be to change G-c-c to support multiarch panel loading.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

@Charles:

can't you just restore the CCPANELDIR= part of r229 without the local install? there is a .pc in g-c-c to get that directory, just do:

CCPANELDIR=`pkg-config ....`
...
ccpaneldir = $(CCPANELDIR)

that should work if I'm not overlooking something?

[Charles Kerr (charlesk)]

That would resolve this ticket, but like I said it would reintroduce the installs-files-outside-of-$(prefix) behavior that r229 fixed for cases where pkg-config returns something outside of $(prefix).

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Time & Date Settings works here and the clock is showing in Unity again.

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

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[Jérôme Poulin (jeromepoulin)]

Time & Date setting is opening, however, everything is greyed out in the Clock tab.

[Charles Kerr (charlesk)]

Jérôme, I'm not seeing that behavior. Could you try upgrading / reinstalling indicator-datetime? If the problem persists, let's put it in a standalone ticket.

[Loris Zinsou (nepenthes)]

Same issue ad Jerôme here, Clock tab stays completely greyed out.

However, if I create a new user, everything works fine.

[Jérôme Poulin (jeromepoulin)]

I reinstalled the datetime indicator without any success, a new user would work so I decided to delete much everything in ~/.cache/ and some unused or useless files in ~/.config/ and it started working.

[iMac (imac-netstatz)]

I also lost my clock today on current 13.10 beta while purging evolution packages and configuration specific to evolution from various places (gconf,.local,.cache,.config) to resolve some broken email accounts which turned out just to be a hangover from gnome-online-accounts being replaced by ubuntu-online-accounts. After restoring the evolution packages and rebooting, my clock disappeared.

My clock was also resolved (appeared in panel, and Clock tab no longer greyed out) by reinstall of indicator-datetime followed by logout/login.

~$ sudo apt-get install indicator-datetime --reinstall

[Jérôme Poulin (jeromepoulin)]

I'm pretty sure Gnome online accounts is the root cause because I had so much problem with it that I got rid of any account in it and since then my clock hasn't stopped working, I though it was just a coincidence but it isn't.

[jacinto josé franco (geekaia)]

The date time applet on ubuntu 13.10 doesn't update the day when I click in the applet.