Hardy weather info doesn't always appear on reboot with World Clock Applet

[Jason Erbskorn]

I have only one time zone set (my home) in the world clock applet. When I reboot, sometimes the weather data wont show in the tray unless I logout and log back in, or change my location again in the applet. I am running the latest package updates to Hardy as of this post.

[Benjamin Braatz (hepta-sean-deactivatedaccount)]

I can confirm this.

Up to now, the weather was never displayed directly after login for me, but only after I once had switched the temperature or wind speed unit. It does not depend on the value to which I change it, though.

In .xsession-errors there are warnings like this one:
(gnome-panel:5094): GWeather-WARNING **: Failed to get METAR data.

Always three in a row, since I have three locations defined.

sean@amalthea ~ $ dpkg -l | grep gnome-panel
ii gnome-panel 1:2.22.1.2-0ubuntu3 launcher and docking facility for GNOME
ii gnome-panel-data 1:2.22.1.2-0ubuntu3 common files for the GNOME Panel

[Patrick Regan (patrick-regan)]

I can also confirm the behavior, although I haven't checked my warding messages yet.

[Tuomo Sipola (tuomosipola)]

I confirm this behavior. It seems to me that the weather is never shown after a boot.

[Josh Hayden (josh-hayden)]

I can also confirm this.

However, this does not happen if I reboot/login and I already have an internet connection. The problem arises when the applet loads before my wireless connection initiates.

[Jessie Lawrence (nightwolf177-deactivatedaccount)]

i confirm this also. this seems like a very easy problem to solve. all that you have to do is have the applet check the internet connection before updating. im not a programmer (yet), but this is all you have to tell it to do, just translate this general idea into actual code:

if (internet connection exists)
{
  update weather information on normal schedule
}
else
{
 wait until internet connection is established, then update weather information on normal schedule
}

or something like that. someone do something about this, its a really rather annoying bug.

[Jessie Lawrence (nightwolf177-deactivatedaccount)]

so, basically, what im saying is, it should check the internet connection before updating it, and even if there is no connection, it shouldnt give up, it should try again as soon as youre connected again.

[Benjamin Braatz (hepta-sean-deactivatedaccount)]

Seems fixed for me now, though I do not remember if I got the fix (?) through hardy-updates or hardy-proposed. In fact, I do not even know if this is in gnome-panel, gnome-panel-data, gnome-applets or gnome-applets-data. ...

[Jessie Lawrence (nightwolf177-deactivatedaccount)]

yeah, it seems fixed for me also now

[Jessie Lawrence (nightwolf177-deactivatedaccount)]

scratch that, its still not fixed it seems

[Jessie Lawrence (nightwolf177-deactivatedaccount)]

another thing is, when i change the time zone, it says van nuys like its supposed to, but then it says that the time zone is located somewhere in asia. then when i click cancel and then click edit again it says "america/los angeles" all the times after that. but the first time i go to that dialog box after a reboot, it says asia at first.

[Patrick Wigmore (patrick-wigmore)]

I can confirm the behaviour described for this bug.

I think the real bug is that the applet does not appear to make further attempts to download weather info if it initially fails. However, I've never left it for more than about ten minutes before changing the temperature or wind speed unit and changing it back again to coax it into downloading, so for all I know it might recheck every 15 minutes.

An annoying bug; although if I'm honest it's easy enough to just look out the window instead.

[Patrick Wigmore (patrick-wigmore)]

Regarding my "might recheck every 15 minutes" comment; it does recheck. Not sure what the frequency of the checks is, but it is doing it.

[Iván Campaña (ivan-campana)]

It still happens to me, it only re-appears when I set my home every time I log in, I have set up 3 cities.

[jjoel (joelwitenberg)]

I can confirm this behavior as well.
Weather only appears once i change the wind or temp, or sometimes city.