[fixed in 1.10.3] marco crashed during desktop useage

[Lyn Perrine]

I was using viewing a webbrowser email and irc open and then I noticed an apport window appeard and marco crashed in the background.

Description: Ubuntu Wily Werewolf (development branch)
Release: 15.10

marco:
  Installed: 1.10.2-1
  Candidate: 1.10.2-1
  Version table:
 *** 1.10.2-1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ wily/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
marco crashed in the background but I was a ble to continue using the desktop. marco:
  Installed: 1.10.2-1
  Candidate: 1.10.2-1
  Version table:
 *** 1.10.2-1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ wily/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
Package: marco 1.10.2-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-10.11-generic 4.2.0
Uname: Linux 4.2.0-10-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.18.1-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
CurrentDesktop: MATE
Date: Wed Sep 16 12:55:01 2015
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/marco
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-08-02 (44 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-MATE 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Alpha amd64 (20150802)
ProcCmdline: marco
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: marco
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

[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/1496574

[Vlad Orlov (monsta)]

Here's the upstream bug report about it:
https://github.com/mate-desktop/marco/issues/228

[Oibaf (oibaf)]

According to upstream this is fixed in 1.10.3.

[Oibaf (oibaf)]

In the meantime this is fixed in Ubuntu I packaged marco 1.10.3, which should hopefully fix this issue, available in this PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~oibaf/+archive/ubuntu/test/

[Martin Wimpress  (flexiondotorg)]

Ubuntu MATE 16.04 include Marco 1.12.1-1 which includes the required fix.