docky keeps crashing!

[Mario Vivares]

Docky keeps crashing without reason during the course of a normal login for any user.
Restarting it will restore the panel and then crash again randomly.

1) The release of Ubuntu you are using, via 'lsb_release -rd' or System -> About Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Release: 14.04

2) The version of the package you are using, via 'apt-cache policy pkgname' or by checking in Software Center
docky:
  Installed: 2.2.0-2
  Candidate: 2.2.0-2
  Version table:
 *** 2.2.0-2 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

3) What you expected to happen
Docky not to crash repeatedly and randomly.

4) What happened instead
Docky crashed repeatedly and randomly.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: docky 2.2.0-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.47-generic 3.13.9
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Wed May 21 16:34:29 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-04-27 (753 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: docky
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-04-19 (31 days ago)

[TimGS (timspe)]

I have the same symptoms in Xubuntu 14.04, 64 bit.

-- Tim.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[mmestre (mmestre)]

Same symptons, Ubuntu 14.04 amd64, fresh install. Up to date.

[Walter Stolyar (hexyebo)]

Same symptoms

lsb_release -rd
Description: Linux Mint 17 Qiana
Release: 17

[DiegoRivera (diego-rivera)]

Confirmed on:

Description: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
Release: 14.04

docky-2.2.0-2

[marty1885 (marty188586)]

Confirmed on:

Description: Ubuntu Studio 14.04
Release: 14.10

docky-2.2.0-2

[Mathew Shires (mathewshires)]

Also crashes on me, using Ubuntu 14.04.2 with KDE

running "docky -d" shows lots of errors like:

[Fatal 08:06:58.458] [GLib] Source ID 476 was not found when attempting to remove it
(The ID number always changes)

Cairo.Surface is leaking, programmer is missing a call to Dispose
Set MONO_CAIRO_DEBUG_DISPOSE to track allocation traces

This bug is also confirmed to occur on Arch Linux

[justin (j-t-scarpelli)]

I am running Xubuntu 14.04 XFCE4 and experiencing similar problems.
I fixed issue by creating a file called /etc/pm/sleep.d/20_docky and making it executable with:
sudo chmod ugo+x /etc/pm/sleep.d/20_docky

#!/bin/sh
case $1 in
  resume)
    USER=`who | grep ":0" | head -1 | cut -d" " -f1`
    USERHOME=/home/$USER
    export XAUTHORITY="$USERHOME/.Xauthority"
    export DISPLAY=":0"
    su $USER - -c "dbus-launch /usr/bin/docky >/dev/null" &
    exit 0;
    ;;
esac

So far, so good..