Applet not showing icons on taskbar for 'Cloudy' weather condition

[Ross Ashley]

indicator-weather:
  Installed: 13.05.29+unstable+r338~raring1
  Candidate: 13.05.29+unstable+r338~raring1
  Version table:
 *** 13.05.29+unstable+r338~raring1 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/weather-indicator-team/unstable/ubuntu/ raring/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

and the log is attached.

[Ross Ashley (brashley46)]

Not true for all icons ... only happening at night.

[Ross Ashley (brashley46)]

Okay, the nighttime-cloudy icon is missing, is what it is. Where do I go to put it in?

[Joshua Tasker (jtasker)]

What theme are you using? What is the output of running the following command in a terminal:

gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.interface icon-theme

[Ross Ashley (brashley46)]

Thanks, Joshua; I get

gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.interface icon-theme
'gnome'

so I presume I'm running the gnome theme. The OS is Xubuntu, so I'm not running a full gnome system, if that makes any difference...

[Joshua Tasker (jtasker)]

The gnome icon theme is missing icons for the "Cloudy" condition.

Check if you have the full gnome icon theme installed. What is the output of this command?

dpkg -s gnome-icon-theme-full | grep Status

Merely installing that package won't solve it, however. What do you get when you run the following commands in a terminal?

ls /usr/share/icons/gnome/22x22/status/weather-* | grep -v 0

ls -l /usr/share/icons/gnome/22x22/status/weather-* | grep \>

[Ross Ashley (brashley46)]

brashley46@rossdesktop2:~$ dpkg -s gnome-icon-theme-full | grep Status
Status: install ok installed
brashley46@rossdesktop2:~$ ls /usr/share/icons/gnome/22x22/status/weather-* | grep -v 0
ls: cannot access /usr/share/icons/gnome/22x22/status/weather-clouds-night.png: Too many levels of symbolic links
/usr/share/icons/gnome/22x22/status/weather-clear-night.png
/usr/share/icons/gnome/22x22/status/weather-clear.png
/usr/share/icons/gnome/22x22/status/weather-clouds.png
/usr/share/icons/gnome/22x22/status/weather-few-clouds-night.png
/usr/share/icons/gnome/22x22/status/weather-few-clouds.png
/usr/share/icons/gnome/22x22/status/weather-fog.png
/usr/share/icons/gnome/22x22/status/weather-overcast.png
/usr/share/icons/gnome/22x22/status/weather-severe-alert.png
/usr/share/icons/gnome/22x22/status/weather-showers.png
/usr/share/icons/gnome/22x22/status/weather-showers-scattered.png
/usr/share/icons/gnome/22x22/status/weather-snow.png
/usr/share/icons/gnome/22x22/status/weather-storm.png
brashley46@rossdesktop2:~$ ls -l /usr/share/icons/gnome/22x22/status/weather-* | grep \>
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 60 Mar 12 2012 /usr/share/icons/gnome/22x22/status/weather-clouds-night.png -> /usr/share/icons/gnome/22x22/status/weather-clouds-night.png
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 58 Mar 12 2012 /usr/share/icons/gnome/22x22/status/weather-clouds.png -> /usr/share/icons/gnome/22x22/status/weather-few-clouds.png
brashley46@rossdesktop2:~$

[Ross Ashley (brashley46)]

So on weather-clouds-night.png we get "too many levels of symbolic links". Hmmmm.

[Ross Ashley (brashley46)]

Investigating that folder I find a symbolic link rather than an image. All the other statuses have images, only weather-clouds-night has a symbolic link. And "properties" tells me that it is a broken link. Now what?

[Joshua Tasker (jtasker)]

You can manually fix that broken link yourself, just run these commands in a terminal:

sudo ln -sf weather-few-clouds-night.png /usr/share/icons/gnome/22x22/status/weather-clouds-night.png
gtk-update-icon-cache-3.0 -q /usr/share/icons/gnome
gtk-update-icon-cache -q /usr/share/icons/gnome

Then log out and back in, and the icon should display.

[Joshua Tasker (jtasker)]

Just to clarify, that's only three commands; the first line got wrapped by Launchpad.

This happened because of an error in one of the install scripts; the fix will be in the next release.

[Ross Ashley (brashley46)]

Okay, I ran
brashley46@rossdesktop2:~$ sudo ln -sf weather-few-clouds-night.png /usr/share/icons/gnome/22x22/status/weather-clouds-night.png
[sudo] password for brashley46:
ln: accessing ‘/usr/share/icons/gnome/22x22/status/weather-clouds-night.png’: Too many levels of symbolic links
brashley46@rossdesktop2:~$ gtk-update-icon-cache-3.0 -q /usr/share/icons/gnome
brashley46@rossdesktop2:~$ gtk-update-icon-cache -q /usr/share/icons/gnome
brashley46@rossdesktop2:~$

and now I get

brashley46@rossdesktop2:~$ ls /usr/share/icons/gnome/22x22/status/weather-* | grep -v 0
ls: cannot access /usr/share/icons/gnome/22x22/status/weather-clouds-night.png: Too many levels of symbolic links
/usr/share/icons/gnome/22x22/status/weather-clear-night.png
/usr/share/icons/gnome/22x22/status/weather-clear.png
/usr/share/icons/gnome/22x22/status/weather-clouds.png
/usr/share/icons/gnome/22x22/status/weather-few-clouds-night.png
/usr/share/icons/gnome/22x22/status/weather-few-clouds.png
/usr/share/icons/gnome/22x22/status/weather-fog.png
/usr/share/icons/gnome/22x22/status/weather-overcast.png
/usr/share/icons/gnome/22x22/status/weather-severe-alert.png
/usr/share/icons/gnome/22x22/status/weather-showers.png
/usr/share/icons/gnome/22x22/status/weather-showers-scattered.png
/usr/share/icons/gnome/22x22/status/weather-snow.png
/usr/share/icons/gnome/22x22/status/weather-storm.png
brashley46@rossdesktop2:~$ ls -l /usr/share/icons/gnome/22x22/status/weather-* | grep \>
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 60 Mar 12 2012 /usr/share/icons/gnome/22x22/status/weather-clouds-night.png -> /usr/share/icons/gnome/22x22/status/weather-clouds-night.png
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 58 Mar 12 2012 /usr/share/icons/gnome/22x22/status/weather-clouds.png -> /usr/share/icons/gnome/22x22/status/weather-few-clouds.png
brashley46@rossdesktop2:~$

weather-indicator updated this morning, to 13.06.01 'rainy 7' ... still have the broken link. Signed out of and back into weather-indicator like you said. Or did you mean reboot the machine?

[Ross Ashley (brashley46)]

::sigh:: when is the next release?

[Joshua Tasker (jtasker)]

The postinst script had the same problem that the command I gave you did -- it didn't handle removing symlinks that link to themselves (the message about "too many levels of recursion")

These commands will correctly remove/recreate the symlinks. Let me know if they don't.

        rm -f /usr/share/icons/gnome/22x22/status/weather-clouds.png /usr/share/icons/gnome/22x22/status/weather-clouds.png
        ln -s weather-few-clouds.png /usr/share/icons/gnome/22x22/status/weather-clouds.png
        ln -s weather-few-clouds-night.png /usr/share/icons/gnome/22x22/status/weather-clouds-night.png

The next release will come when the bugs marked 'Fix Committed' on this page: https://launchpad.net/weather-indicator/+milestone/13.06.01 are verified as fixed by users other than myself.

[Ross Ashley (brashley46)]

Once again, I ran
brashley46@rossdesktop2:~$ sudo rm -f /usr/share/icons/gnome/22x22/status/weather-clouds.png /usr/share/icons/gnome/22x22/status/weather-clouds.png
[sudo] password for brashley46:
brashley46@rossdesktop2:~$ sudo ln -s weather-few-clouds.png /usr/share/icons/gnome/22x22/status/weather-clouds.png
brashley46@rossdesktop2:~$ sudo ln -s weather-few-clouds-night.png /usr/share/icons/gnome/22x22/status/weather-clouds-night.png
ln: accessing ‘/usr/share/icons/gnome/22x22/status/weather-clouds-night.png’: Too many levels of symbolic links
brashley46@rossdesktop2:~$

stopped weather-indicator, restarted it, and no change. weaather-clouds-night.png is still a symbolic link to nothing, rather than an actual .png file.

[Joshua Tasker (jtasker)]

Sorry, I made a typo, so the bad weather-clouds-night.png link didn't get removed. That first command (to remove the bad links) should have been:

sudo rm -f /usr/share/icons/gnome/22x22/status/weather-clouds.png /usr/share/icons/gnome/22x22/status/weather-clouds-night.png

(or you can break it into two commands):
sudo rm -f /usr/share/icons/gnome/22x22/status/weather-clouds.png
sudo rm -f /usr/share/icons/gnome/22x22/status/weather-clouds-night.png

then run the ln commands again to create the good links:
ln -s weather-few-clouds.png /usr/share/icons/gnome/22x22/status/weather-clouds.png
ln -s weather-few-clouds-night.png /usr/share/icons/gnome/22x22/status/weather-clouds-night.png

[Ross Ashley (brashley46)]

Okay, thanks, that seems to have done it.

[Ross Ashley (brashley46)]

Now all the mostly-cloudy-night icons have disappeared! Is there no end to this? should I file a fresh bug?

[Ross Ashley (brashley46)]

Actually there are no icons for mostly-cloudy, day or night.