ayatana-indicator-datetime-service crashed with signal 5 in g_object_new_valist()

[Michael Dooley]

Ayatana-indicator-datetime-service crashes at every startup of Ubuntu-Mate 12.10 beta. I have changed the indicators from Indicator Applet Complete to just Indicator Applet but no relief. My laptop is an Intel Core2 Duo T7300 booting multiple Ubuntu-Mate versions. I have Clock installed rather than relying on the indicator applet time.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.10
Package: ayatana-indicator-datetime 0.8.0-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.8.0-16.17-generic 5.8.0
Uname: Linux 5.8.0-16-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu45
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: MATE
Date: Sun Aug 30 17:37:56 2020
ExecutablePath: /usr/libexec/ayatana-indicator-datetime/ayatana-indicator-datetime-service
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-08-26 (4 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-MATE 20.10 "Groovy Gorilla" - Alpha amd64 (20200823)
ProcCmdline: /usr/libexec/ayatana-indicator-datetime/ayatana-indicator-datetime-service
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US
 PATH=(custom, user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 5
SourcePackage: ayatana-indicator-datetime
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 g_object_new_valist () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 g_object_new () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 ayatana::indicator::datetime::LiveSettings::LiveSettings() ()
Title: ayatana-indicator-datetime-service crashed with signal 5 in g_object_new_valist()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin lxd plugdev sambashare sudo
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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Jake McGregor (jake-mcgregor86)]

I'll also add this same thing happens on armhf on Raspberry Pi 4 4GB as well. It doesn't seem to negatively affect the rest of the system, but I'll note I've changed some of the indicators that appear on the top bar, so I'm likely not using the one that's crashing.

[Nick P (photopuppet)]

Also the same issue on Ubuntu-MATE 20.10 aarch64...

[Nick P (photopuppet)]

Just a quick note.... I think I managed to stop this crash by uninstalling the package 'indicator-datetime' - apparently the two conflict when installed together.

From the Ayatana Indicators github: "When using the -datetime Ayatana Indicator, make sure that the -datetime Ubuntu Indicator (package name: indicator-datetime) is not installed."

I'm using Ubuntu-MATE 20.10 on arm64 (Pi)