hamster-applet crashed with KeyError in add_to_connection()

[Jeremy Wells]

Binary package hint: hamster-applet

I think this happened when I accidentally clicked twice on the add button for adding applets

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/hamster-applet/hamster-applet
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: hamster-applet 2.25.3-0ubuntu1
ProcCmdline: python /usr/lib/hamster-applet/hamster-applet --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:Hamster_Applet_Factory --oaf-ior-fd=20
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/lib/hamster-applet/hamster-applet', '--oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:Hamster_Applet_Factory', '--oaf-ior-fd=20']
SourcePackage: hamster-applet
Title: hamster-applet crashed with KeyError in add_to_connection()
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-5-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

[Hurl (hurl)]

I'm currently having the same issue with an up-to-date Karmic.
Apport generated a bugreport, but I've seen this one and didn't want to make a duplicate.
Please tell me what informations you need.
Regards

[Juanje Ojeda (juanje)]

It seems to me that both applet try to connect to the same dbus resource and that crashses.
Now the dbus interface is under heavy devlopment so maybe this kind of things can be sorted out.

Anyway, this is a non very common uses case, so it shouldn't be really a problem. But maybe we can catch the error and show a nicer warning.

Thanks for the report :-)

[Tony Espy (awe)]

This happens to me all the time under Karmic.

Usually when it happens, I'm not actively using the hamster UI. It just dies, and then re-spawns pretty frequently ( a few times an hour ). At least I don't have to re-start the current task! ;)

[Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout)]

marking as confirmed

[Krzysztof Klimonda (kklimonda)]

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments at:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=591035

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package hamster-applet - 2.27.90-0ubuntu1

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hamster-applet (2.27.90-0ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  * New upstream release (LP: #411662)
    - Fixes to idle detection (now works with gnome screensaver 2.27+)
    - return of the day view
    - UI layout fixes to match HIG
    - now it is possible to add more than one applet to panel without crashing
    - Updated translations
  * Closes Launchpad bugs:
    - hamster-applet crashed with GError in load_ui_file() (LP: #387939)
    - hamster-applet crashed with KeyError in add_to_connection() (LP: #323468)

 -- Krzysztof Klimonda <email address hidden> Fri, 07 Aug 2009 08:46:48 +0200