deskbar-applet crashed with EOFError in prompt_user_passwd()

[hrushikesh]

Binary package hint: deskbar-applet

Intrepid Ibex.
deskbar-applet 2.24.0-0ubuntu1

Got this message on enabling calculator plugin and entering "3+6"

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/deskbar-applet/deskbar-applet
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: deskbar-applet 2.24.0-0ubuntu1
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/deskbar-applet/deskbar-applet --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:Deskbar_Applet_Factory --oaf-ior-fd=21
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_IN.UTF-8
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/lib/deskbar-applet/deskbar-applet', '--oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:Deskbar_Applet_Factory', '--oaf-ior-fd=21']
SourcePackage: deskbar-applet
Title: deskbar-applet crashed with EOFError in prompt_user_passwd()
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-6-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy fuse kvm lpadmin plugdev sambashare video

[hrushikesh (hrushikesh)]

I would like to correct my report. I get this bug independent of what I enter into the deskbar. It has become very unusable. Sigh, I have been forced to use alt-f2 for the past few hours.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, do you have a proxy configured? the crash is similar to http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=476730

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

upstream bug comment

"Seems that you use a proxy that requires authentication but you haven't
supplied username and password."

is that the case? do you still get the bug?

[David Hugh-Jones (davidhughjones)]

I get this bug with a proxy configured and when I supplied an incorrect password.

[Julio Pedreira (julio.pedreira)]

Same bug here. It hapens after one or two seaches. I have a proxy configured with the correct password supplied...

[Julio Pedreira (julio.pedreira)]

As a workarround, If I disable any extension using internet, it works properly, so I'm sure it has to do with the proxy (I use a proxy at work; at home I don't and it works fine althought I had enabled internet-extensions like google search and wiki suggestions).

[Vincent Povirk (madewokherd)]

I think that the crash is gnome bug 569260, which should be fixed in gnome 2.26 (ubuntu 9.04). However, the fix does not let the networking extensions authenticate to proxies when they couldn't before. It just prevents a crash in that situation.

So I suspect that in 9.04 the networking extensions will not crash but still will not work.