Battery icon missing after latest Maverick upgrade

[Walter_Wittel]

Binary package hint: indicator-application

After upgrading today via Update Manager the battery icon has disappeared. I tried a reboot and it didn't help. The functionality is still there if I click on the area where the icon should be (see attached screen shot). Thanks.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: indicator-application 0.2.3-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-14.20-generic 2.6.35
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-14-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Aug 7 14:04:54 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Alpha i386 (20100602.2)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: indicator-application

[dazza5000 (darran-kelinske)]

Confirmed and affects me.

[dazza5000 (darran-kelinske)]

Ubuntu 10.10 Alpha 3 amd64

[Terry Jones (terryjones28056)]

Same here Alpha 3 amd64

[sasagundul (mindscrewer06)]

same here. Ubuntu 10.10 i686

[G0B1!N5486 (godthegoblin)]

I have the same problem too but i have found that if you kill the gnome-power-manager process and start it again you get the icon!!

Before this update i am sure the battery icon was taken from the icon theme that you are using now when i restart the process to get the icon it uses a generic one that doesnt change when you change the icon theme.

[G0B1!N5486 (godthegoblin)]

I decided to start the process in a terminal for debuging puposes and this is what i get. Hope this helps :)

g0blin@goblin-pc:~$ gnome-power-manager

progname=gnome-power-manager; RGBA=on

(gnome-power-manager:3884): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.25.13/gobject/gsignal.c:2275: signal `proxy-status' is invalid for instance `0x9dddf30'

(gnome-power-manager:3884): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

(gnome-power-manager:3884): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_image_get_storage_type: assertion `GTK_IS_IMAGE (image)' failed

(gnome-power-manager:3884): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance

(gnome-power-manager:3884): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_data: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

(gnome-power-manager:3884): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

(gnome-power-manager:3884): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_image_get_storage_type: assertion `GTK_IS_IMAGE (image)' failed

(gnome-power-manager:3884): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance

(gnome-power-manager:3884): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_data: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

(gnome-power-manager:3884): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

(gnome-power-manager:3884): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_image_get_storage_type: assertion `GTK_IS_IMAGE (image)' failed

(gnome-power-manager:3884): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance

(gnome-power-manager:3884): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_data: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

[Walter_Wittel (wittelw)]

On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 4:48 PM, G0B1!N5486 <email address hidden> wrote:
> I have the same problem too but i have found that if you kill the gnome-
> power-manager process and start it again you get the icon!!
>
... but after a reboot you still need to kill and restart
gnome-power-manager? Maybe something in the startup order?

[Björn Schließmann (b-schliessmann)]

I tried out killing and starting g-p-m on impulse; for me it doesn't change the icon (placeholder every time).

[Walter_Wittel (wittelw)]

Just updated and the problem seems to have gone away. Don't see any evidence of anyone working on this bug so hopefully it is fixed rather than intermittent. Currently running:

gnome-power-manager:
  Installed: 2.31.6-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 2.31.6-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 2.31.6-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Björn Schließmann (b-schliessmann)]

Seems fixed for me in version 2.31.6-0ubuntu1, too. Marking "Fix released".