Seeing debug output from appmenu-gtk

[Mark Campbell]

This started after updates were installed on 19 September, on a system running Ubuntu 12.10. When applications with menus are started in a terminal, several lines of output are produced. The first two lines are provided below, with '...' substituting for file and line number in my files (not useful info for the bug report):

LOG **: /build/buildd/appmenu-gtk-12.10.1/./src/bridge.c:567 creating rebuild timer at ...
LOG **: /build/buildd/appmenu-gtk-12.10.1/./src/bridge.c:577 adding widget 0x8d860b8 to bridge 0x8de4c00's queue at ...

[Charles Kerr (charlesk)]

Mark, those two lines are coming from calls to g_debug(), which isn't an error.

Do you maybe have your G_MESSAGES_DEBUG environment variable set to show calls to g_debug()?

[Mark Campbell (campbemw)]

No, I've never explicitly set that environment variable and have verified that it doesn't exist in my current environment. After trying various applications, it only seems to happen with my own applications (in Perl/Gtk). Again, though, this only started a couple of days ago and not because of anything I did other than installing updates as usual. Maybe some other package is to blame.

[Charles Kerr (charlesk)]

Thinking about this a little more... the benefit of these debug statements is pretty low compared to the level of noise they're putting out when you're trying to debug an application whose menus are exported.