installing indicator-synapse breaks wingpanel

[Tim]

I installed Indicator Synapse for elementary os freya 0.3 and restarted my computer and the next thing i know, my whole top panel is missing please help!

http://www.pixentral.com/pics/19tqHUZkrUy8Fdw7I8RO5ZeqRKH3sm.png

[Sascha Heuterer (theanachron)]

Did you try reinstalling the wingpanel with "sudo apt-get install --reinstall wingpanel"?

[Daniel (danielberjninger)]

Confirmed that reinstalling wingpanel doesnt seem to work.

Running wingpanel from the shell gives:

$ wingpanel

[_LOG_LEVEL_INFO 10:04:10.324409] Application.vala:155: Wingpanel version: 0.2.4
[_LOG_LEVEL_INFO 10:04:10.324482] Application.vala:157: Kernel version: 3.13.0-24-generic
[_LOG_LEVEL_WARN 10:04:10.372903] [GLib-GObject] cannot add interface type 'GeeIterable' to type 'SynapseResultSet' which does not conform to prerequisite 'GeeTraversable'
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Uninstalling indicator-synapse results in wingpanel working again.

[Tasos (tasosventouris)]

I confirmed that the problem is there. I installed the indicator-synapse and top panel was gone. After removing it, top panel returned.

[Victor Martinez (victored)]

Not a bug in the panel. Indicator-synapse is crashing and bringing the panel down with it.

The crash seems related to the fact that indicator-synapse was built using libgee 1.0 instead of libgee 0.8. This is also the reason why PPA builds for the indicator are failing too https://launchpadlibrarian.net/172567198/buildlog_ubuntu-trusty-amd64.indicator-synapse_0~525-0~ubuntu14.04.1_FAILEDTOBUILD.txt.gz

[Karut (kraeutermann)]

So what is supposed to happen to fix?

[Karut (kraeutermann)]

Manually installing a newer (sucessfully built) build of synapse (529) actually solves this problem. Once you update synapse via package manager the problem of course will reappear.

Download it here.

https://launchpad.net/~elementary-os/+archive/ubuntu/unstable-upstream/+sourcepub/4275868/+listing-archive-extra

[Jason Gambrel (jaygambrel)]

Works for me! Thanks Karut!
I also found the same file listing at https://code.launchpad.net/~elementary-os/+recipe/indicator-synapse-daily as an alternate source.
Jay

[Murat Asya (murat-asya)]

Yes works on my Freya 64bit too. I have manually installed files which are given links by Karut..