weather indicator in the time/date applet does not keep up to date

[Matthew East]

Binary package hint: gnome-panel

The weather indicator that has appeared in the time/date applet since intrepid appears not to update itself. Mine just gets stuck for several days, unless I kill the panel, in which case it updates itself.

The separate weather applet has a preference in which the user can specify that it updates itself every X minutes (defaulting to 30). This should also apply to the weather indicator in the time/date applet.

[Matthew East (mdke)]

I should add - I've noticed the problem on my intrepid system, which is up to date. I haven't run jaunty for any serious period of time that would permit me to check whether the same issue exists.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

would be worth trying in jaunty the code changed and is using network-manager now to update when going online etc

[Tina Russell (tinarussell)]

I’m getting this problem in Jaunty, with the same behavior described in the duplicate bug #341273.

[Brian J. Murrell (brian-interlinx)]

Sebastien,

What happens if I am not using NM to manage my connection? I am in a very static, wired-only network here, and TBH, the "Debian way" (/etc/network/interfaces) seems entirely sufficient to manage the network connections. Further, the idea that the network comes up only when the desktop is started is ludicrous. Yes, I know that NM has a "systems setting" but again, what's wrong with the simplicity of /etc/network/interfaces? Instead, when it doesn't work I have debug the how many thousands of lines of NM?

I just want weather without having to subscribe to using NM, thanx. How do I get it?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the applet should get the informations correctly if the network is working when it starts, nm is nice to know about connection changes though

[Brian J. Murrell (brian-interlinx)]

On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 14:09 +0000, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> the applet should get the informations correctly if the network is
> working when it starts, nm is nice to know about connection changes
> though

Yeah. I removed everything network-manager and indeed, it does seem to
get updates, once I fixed (rather worked around a bug in) the proxy
settings.

Cheers,
b.

[Matthew East (mdke)]

I am still experiencing this bug in Jaunty (and I use network manager in the ordinary way for managing my wired network connection).

[Carey Underwood (cwillu)]

I still run into this on karmic.

I haven't yet seen this on lucid, but there's no reason to think it's been fixed by accident.

[Carey Underwood (cwillu)]

I expect this is a duplicate of bug #337629, as it's the same underlying library, the same symptoms, and the same workaround.

[Carey Underwood (cwillu)]

er, bug #307283, rather.

[Carey Underwood (cwillu)]

http://blogs.gnome.org/jamesh/2005/06/30/http-code-in-gweather/

Old, but describes the same issue.

[Bernhard (b.a.koenig)]

Are you still seeing this in lucid? I think there were some recent improvements regarding this issue. Please let us know.

[Matthew East (mdke)]

So far this hasn't occurred in lucid for me.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

let's close the bug if that works now

[Matthias Rosenkranz (rose)]

I still see this in Lucid. One further workaround instead of killing the panel is to change the coordinates of the weather location (in the time/date applet under Edit->Locations) and save the new coordinates (and then change them back again). This will update the weather for all locations.