message indicator with pidgin seems to be flaky

[Ken VanDine]

I am seeing some flaky behavior in the message indicator, specifically with pidgin messages. After starting pidgin, I do see messages that I receive in the indicator-applet. However, at some point after running for a while I stop seeing incoming messages in the indicator-applet.

I do continue to see notifications via notify-osd, and the indicator-applet lists both "Pidgin Instant Messenger" and "Evolution", but not specific incoming messages. Restart pidgin makes it start behaving as expected again.

I am filing this bug against indicator-applet because I have seen this happen once with evolution as well, where restarting evolution resolved it.

[Ted Gould (ted)]

Ken,

Would it be possible for you to compile the indicator applet source
from:

   bzr branch lp:indicator-applet

And then run the program:

   tests/listen-and-print

And log the output of that. It should say what Pidgin is sending vs.
what is being displayed.

 Thank you,
  Ted

[Ken VanDine (ken-vandine)]

Here's a log, not it goes from 0 to 2 messages with a WARNING in between it. This is where a message seemed to get dropped.

** (process:4132): DEBUG: Indicator Server Added: :1.29 messages.im
** (process:4132): DEBUG: Indicator Server Type: :1.29 messages.im
** (process:4132): DEBUG: Indicator Server Desktop: :1.29 /usr/share/applications/pidgin.desktop
** (process:4132): DEBUG: Indicator Server Added: :1.82 message.mail
** (process:4132): DEBUG: Indicator Server Type: :1.82 message.mail
** (process:4132): DEBUG: Indicator Server Desktop: :1.82 /usr/share/applications/evolution-mail.desktop
** (process:4132): DEBUG: Indicator Added: :1.82 0 message
** (process:4132): DEBUG: Indicator Removed: :1.82 0 message
** (process:4132): DEBUG: Indicator Added: :1.29 1 message
** (process:4132): DEBUG: Indicator Removed: :1.29 1 message
** (process:4132): DEBUG: Indicator Added: :1.82 0 message
** (process:4132): DEBUG: Indicator Removed: :1.82 0 message

(process:4132): libindicate-WARNING **: No indicator 0 of type 'message' on ':1.82'.
** (process:4132): DEBUG: Indicator Added: :1.29 2 message
** (process:4132): DEBUG: Indicator Removed: :1.29 2 message
** (process:4132): DEBUG: Indicator Added: :1.82 0 message

[Ken VanDine (ken-vandine)]

Here is some debuging output from the applet:

** (indicator-applet:6060): DEBUG: Building a new IM Menu Item
** (indicator-applet:6060): DEBUG: Building new IM Menu Item
** (indicator-applet:6060): DEBUG: Adding to IM Hash
** (indicator-applet:6060): DEBUG: Placing in Shell
** (indicator-applet:6060): DEBUG: Setting image to 'new'
** (indicator-applet:6060): DEBUG: Got Sender Information
** (indicator-applet:6060): DEBUG: Got Time info
** (indicator-applet:6060): DEBUG: Got Time info
** (indicator-applet:6060): DEBUG: Removing :1.127 2
** (indicator-applet:6060): DEBUG: Comparing (:1.127 2) to (:1.127 2)
** (indicator-applet:6060): DEBUG: Got a message
** (indicator-applet:6060): DEBUG: Message subtype: email
** (indicator-applet:6060): DEBUG: Hmm, still no entries
** (indicator-applet:6060): DEBUG: Removing :1.82 0

** (indicator-applet:6060): WARNING **: We were asked to remove :1.82 0 but we didn't.

(indicator-applet:6060): libindicate-WARNING **: No indicator 0 of type 'message' on ':1.82'.

(indicator-applet:6060): libindicate-WARNING **: No indicator 0 of type 'message' on ':1.82'.

[Martin Albisetti (beuno)]

FWIW, the same thing is happening to me. Running the latest and greatest package from Jaunty.

[Ted Gould (ted)]

I'm going to mark this as Fix Released as I can't get the 0.1.3 version (get uploaded and all shortly) to miss any messages at all. Let's reopen if it's still happening on that version.