Governor Plugin applet crashes in Xubuntu on switch to a virtual console

[Martin Hammer]

Governor Plugin crashes in Xubuntu 8.04 (8.04.2) after switching to a virtual console.

Steps to reproduce:
1) Start xfce4-panel from Terminal
2) Add Governor Plugin to a panel
3) Hit Ctrl+Alt+F1 to switch to tty1
4) Hit Alt+F7 to switch back to X
5) Governor Plugin is no longer in the panel and the following output is shown in the Terminal window:

xxx@yyy:~$ Caught remote method exception org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.CPUFreq.org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.PermissionDeniedByPolicy: org.freedesktop.hal.power-management.cpufreq no <-- (action, result)** Message: Governor Plugin: screen changed: 0

** Message: No valid plug window.

(xfce4-panel:9038): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_socket_get_id: assertion `GTK_WIDGET_ANCHORED (socket)' failed

** (xfce4-panel:9038): CRITICAL **: An item was unexpectedly removed: "Governor Plugin".

[Martin Hammer (martin.hammer)]

The bug remains after upgrading to Xubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty).

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. If you could test the current Ubuntu development version, this would help us a lot. If you can test it, and it is still an issue, we would appreciate if you could upload updated logs by running apport-collect 361165.

I did attempt to reproduce this myself, but I can't even get the governor plugin to install on my systems. Perhaps because they do not have the correct cpus. Thanks again for testing this.

[Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)]

If you can reproduce it, please provide a backtrace. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Backtrace#Already%20running%20programs
Thanks.

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

We'd like to figure out what's causing this bug for you, but we haven't heard back from you in a while. Could you please provide the requested information? Thanks!

[Martin Hammer (martin.hammer)]

Hi, thanks for the follow up (better late than never!). Unfortunately I no longer have the computer in question, so I cannot provide any more details on the issue. The laptop in question was an Acer Aspire 1300.
Thanks.

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

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!