5-a-day applet causes computer to freeze

[David Stansby]

After getting the five-a-day applet, it seems to be completely freezing my computer. The first page I drag onto the applet asks me for permission to use the keyring, so I enter my password and all is OK. Then I drag the second page on, and still everything is OK. When it comes to dragging my third page of the day on to it though, my screen freezes completely apart from my mouse cursor, and I can't do anything. I expect to just be able to carry on as normal though.

I am using 9.04 alpha 3
The package version is 0.58

I have had to put I don't know for the package, because launchpad says "five-a-day-applet" does not exist in Ubuntu. Please choose a different package. If you're unsure, please select "I don't know"

[Peter Antoniac (pan1nx)]

This is a package from a PPA not from Ubuntu. I subscribed 5-a-day team, maybe they can look at this.

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

This sounds to me to be a bit of a problem with seahorse or whatever else is spawning that permission dialog.

Markus: what do you think?

[Markus Korn (thekorn)]

I tend to agree with Daniel, it looks like seahorse or the bits in bzr communicating with seahorse is the reason for your freezes. But I'm not sure, I've never seen something like this.
Unfortunately this kind of bonobo-applets are very hard to debug. Can you please attach /tmp/5-a-day-applet.txt (just in case there is anything useful in it)
Can you please describe the symptoms of this bug, is X freezing? or is it 'just' huge cpu load?

Markus

[David Stansby (dstansby-deactivatedaccount)]

I don't know if I have a huge cpu load, because my screen just freezes, and I can only move the mouse. I have tried pressing the power button once, but no response, and other key combos don't seem to do anything at all. I've attached my /tmp/five-a-day-applet.txt to this post too.

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

The 5-a-day tool and the 5-a-day-applet are mostly obsolete now. The only thing that still works is "5-a-day --update" for those who want it.

Just join https://launchpad.net/~5-a-day-participants and the rest will happen automatically. Some statistics on http://daniel.holba.ch/five-a-day-stats are not there yet, but will come soon. Bug data is now retrieved "automatically" from Launchpad.

[David Stansby (dstansby-deactivatedaccount)]

Agreed. Now 5-a-daying is much simpler :D