Comment 11 for bug 708624

This is probably the same basic issue as in https://bugs.launchpad.net/awn-extras/+bug/616246; the sequence of errors is the same (it raises a ValueError when I first add the applet, and IndexError each time I restart awn until I remove that applet instance).

The root cause for me is that the hddtemp server on port 7634 is spitting out a model name that contains garbage at the end. In particular, it looks something like "Mushkin MKNSSDCL240GB-DX \x10\x80". (With more spaces in the middle.) The applet passes that around internally without problems, but the gconf connection rejects the update to self.applet.settings["labels"]. Because the "ids" array is already set by that point, the partially-configured gconf values confuse later startups.

Both "hdparm -i /dev/sda" and "udisks --dump" show just "Mushkin MKNSSDCL240GB-DX" as the model. I will follow up with the author of hddtemp to figure out what the root cause is, and whether hddtemp is doing the expected thing.