About Me entry missing from the Me Menu

[Lee Hyde]

I've only just noticed this, as I rarely use the feature myself, but the About Me entry within the Me Menu appears to be missing on my machine. I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 (x86-64) with all the latest security and other updates.

If there's anything further I can do to provide additional, more technical information please respond with instructions.

P.S.: I posted a similar bug (bug #727111) regarding a duplicate broadcast entry within the Messaging Menu, so I'm inclined to believe that this may be something unique to my system. I hope, that if this is the case, that resolving these bugs will at lease providing some gleanings as to how to prevent such breakages in the future as I have done nothing out of the ordinary that would explain this behaviour.

[Lee Hyde (anubeon)]

The following output is what I got when running indicator-me-service (after killing the original) from within a terminal. I don't know whether it will be of any use in diagnosing the issue, but I though it worth posting in any case.

** (process:19410): DEBUG: Unable to get Pidgin proxy: Could not get owner of name 'im.pidgin.purple.PurpleService': no such name
** (process:19410): DEBUG: Building Telepathy Proxy

** (process:19410): WARNING **: Unable to connect to Mission Control
** (process:19410): DEBUG: provider[0]: Offline
** (process:19410): DEBUG: provider[1]: Offline
** (process:19410): DEBUG: provider[2]: Offline
** (process:19410): DEBUG: Setting icon to: user-offline-panel
** (process:19410): DEBUG: Global status changed to: Offline
** (process:19410): DEBUG: Building new Entry Menu Item
** (process:19410): DEBUG: Built Available
** (process:19410): DEBUG: Built Away
** (process:19410): DEBUG: Built Busy
** (process:19410): DEBUG: Built Invisible
** (process:19410): DEBUG: Built Offline
** (process:19410): DEBUG: display_mode_changed
** (process:19410): DEBUG: Setting username to:

(process:19410): libindicator-WARNING **: Name request failed. Status returned: 3
** (process:19410): DEBUG: Service shutting down

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

is gnome-control-center installed? does it work in a guest session?

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

are you by any chance using icon-only mode? bug 726433 is for that

[Lee Hyde (anubeon)]

@Sebastien Bacher
I can confirm that gnome-control-center is installed. I haven't yet had opportunity to see check whether About Me appears within a guess session. I'll get back to you once I've checked.

@Omer Akram
I assume you are referring to an icon only Me Menu, if that is the case, I am indeed using icon-only mode. I assume that would explain the line "** (process:19410): DEBUG: Setting username to:" above, and by extension the absence of About Me.

I'll mark this as a duplicate of bug #726433, I'll also amend that bugs description to reflect the absence of the About Me entry specifically. I hope that's okay.

Kind Regards,

Lee.