deskbar-applet crashed with IOError in connect()

[René Brandenburger]

Binary package hint: deskbar-applet

Deskbar crashes when trying to search. This only happens when not connected to the internet with yahoo search activated.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Oct 22 18:41:58 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/deskbar-applet/deskbar-applet
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
Package: deskbar-applet 2.20.0-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/deskbar-applet/deskbar-applet --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:Deskbar_Applet_Factory --oaf-ior-fd=35
ProcCwd: /home/rbrandenburger
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
 LANG=de_LU.UTF-8
PythonArgs: ['/usr/lib/deskbar-applet/deskbar-applet', '--oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:Deskbar_Applet_Factory', '--oaf-ior-fd=35']
SourcePackage: deskbar-applet
Title: deskbar-applet crashed with IOError in connect()
Uname: Linux debberlein 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 23:05:12 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for your report, is this reproducible everytime? because i can't reproduce the crash. may you tell us a couple of easy steps for trigger the crash?

[René Brandenburger (rene-brandenburger)]

I'm running gutsy on a laptop, which is not always connected to a network, but as it is most of the time, i've activated the yahoo search plugin (see attached settings dialog). As long as I have a network connection, this works fine, with the network cable pulled, it crashes.

Steps to reproduce:
0. make sure the network connection works
1. activate the Yahoo Search plugin
2. open the deskbar search an type your query
3. everything is fine
4. pull the network cable
5. search again
6. Bug Buddy pops up an reports the crash

A workaround is to deactivate the plugin if not online, but I think it should just gracefully handle the connection problem as i do not want to change the configuration everytime i go on- or offline.

[Sebastian Pölsterl (sebp)]

This bug has already been fixed upstream and is available in 2.20.1 see http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=482379

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the bug should be fixed in haryd now