battery plugin crashes randomly

[nikki]

Binary package hint: xfce4-battery-plugin

The battery plugin crashed for no reason that I can see. I was not running anything unusual, just programs I use everyday. I had firefox and amarok running at the time.

[Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug. Unfortunately we can't fix it, because your description didn't include enough information. You may find it helpful to read "How to report bugs effectively" <http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html>. We'd be grateful if you would then provide a more complete description of the problem.

We have instructions on debugging some types of problems. <http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProcedures> Thanks!

[Daniel Firvida (dfirvida)]

Hi

it happens me the same, but i have more datails

xfce4-battery-plugin crashed with linux-image-2.6.20-16-generic in xubuntu 7.04 in my laptop Toshiba Satellite L10-155, whit linux-image-2.6.20-15-generic not crashed

Thanks

[tactus (tactusetc)]

I can confirm a crashing XFCE4 battery plugin, but I don't know what is causing it and I haven't found a way to reproduce it. Sometimes I notice the plugin has disappeared after I boot up the machine from hibernate. Logging out doesn't bring it back, so I need to add it manually. I use hibernate everyday but the plugin has disappeared just twice in the last couple of weeks.

A similar case is posted here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xfce4-battery-plugin/+bug/66061

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$ uname -a
Linux dellbox 2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP Thu Jun 7 20:19:32 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Sampo Niskanen (sampo-niskanen)]

I have the same problem on a Thinkpad T23. It crashes maybe once a week, typically when resuming from memory-suspend (the only type of suspension I regularly use), so it might be the same as bug #66061, though I'm not sure whether it sometimes crashes also during normal operation.

At the end of ~/.xsession-errors I get the following lines (I'm not sure whether all of the lines relate to the crash, I'll post more info the next time it crashes):

------clip------
checking for valid crashreport now
checking for valid crashreport now
** Message: Battery Monitor: screen changed: 0

** Message: No valid plug window.

(xfce4-panel:5256): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_socket_get_id: assertion `GTK_WIDGET_ANCHORED (socket)' failed

** (xfce4-panel:5256): CRITICAL **: An item was unexpectedly removed: "Battery Monitor".
checking for valid crashreport now
current dist not found in meta-release file
------clap------

Hope this helps find the bug. If you have any other suggestions how to debug it, please inform me.

[Sampo Niskanen (sampo-niskanen)]

The plugin crashed again, and the same lines were appended to .xsession-errors with the exception of the first and last two lines ("checking for valid crashreport now"). I believe the four lines in the middle are from xfce4-battery-plugin.

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

This bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Can you try with Hardy Heron, Version 8.04.01, which is the latest version of Ubuntu released? Is it possible to get a crash report or backtrace? There are instructions on debugging some types of problems at <http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProcedures> Thanks in advance.

[Sampo Niskanen (sampo-niskanen)]

Hi,

After upgrading to Hardy I have configured the laptop to suspend on lid close through the Power Managemenr Preferences (previously I had modified /etc/acpi/ -files directly). After the upgrade I haven't had the plugin crash, so this is no longer an issue for me.

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

I am marking this bug fix-released, since it is no longer an issue in version 8.04 as verified by the last comment.