indicator-weather applet is writing debug messages frequently to disk

[Colin Ian King]

Indicator weather applet is appending to /home/$USER/.cache/indicator-weather.log debug messages every minute which is causing disk wakeups and stopping the drive from becoming fully idle in power saving mode.

[MainThread] 2012-01-16 16:43:51,622 - DEBUG - Indicator: setting refresh label to 'Refresh (1 min. ago)'
[MainThread] 2012-01-16 16:43:51,622 - DEBUG - Indicator: scheduling refresh label update in 1 min
[MainThread] 2012-01-16 16:44:51,679 - DEBUG - Indicator: setting refresh label to 'Refresh (2 min. ago)'
[MainThread] 2012-01-16 16:44:51,680 - DEBUG - Indicator: scheduling refresh label update in 1 min
[MainThread] 2012-01-16 16:45:51,728 - DEBUG - Indicator: setting refresh label to 'Refresh (3 min. ago)'
[MainThread] 2012-01-16 16:45:51,729 - DEBUG - Indicator: scheduling refresh label update in 1 min
[MainThread] 2012-01-16 16:46:51,790 - DEBUG - Indicator: setting refresh label to 'Refresh (4 min. ago)'
[MainThread] 2012-01-16 16:46:51,791 - DEBUG - Indicator: scheduling refresh label update in 1 min
[MainThread] 2012-01-16 16:47:51,843 - DEBUG - Indicator: setting refresh label to 'Refresh (5 min. ago)'
[MainThread] 2012-01-16 16:47:51,844 - DEBUG - Indicator: scheduling refresh label update in 1 min

Since these messages are debug messages, are they really necessary and do they need to wake up the disk every minute?

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

As it's an universe package which is not installed by default, I'm setting this to low priority.

[Vadim Rutkovsky (roignac)]

This particular message will be removed. Please post more indicator-weather messages in this bug report

[Colin Ian King (colin-king)]

HI Vadim, thanks for picking this up so quickly. Attached is a gzip'd log as requested.

[Vadim Rutkovsky (roignac)]

Fixed in 11.11.28

[Colin Ian King (colin-king)]

Great! Many thanks Vadim

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package indicator-weather - 11.11.28-0ubuntu1

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indicator-weather (11.11.28-0ubuntu1) precise; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
   - Preferences buttons OK and Cancel and Forecast's Close
     are not focusable (LP: #853774)
   - Don't crash if Google doesn't return icons (LP: #809187)
   - Display degrees in wind info item if Yahoo is selected (LP: #838369)
   - Fixed Assistant behavior for Forward/Back movements (LP: #804659)
   - Fixed a crash when Unknown wind condition was returned, thanks
     Tomasz Maciejewski! (LP: #886028)
   - Don't write too much debug info in the log (LP: #917253)
  * Drop debian/patches/autostart.patch, applied upstream.
  * Drop debian/README.source, no longer needed.
 -- Andrew Starr-Bochicchio <email address hidden> Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:25:46 -0500

[Dac Chartrand (conner-bw)]

Is there a way to turn off this debug log all together?

I have over 2 megs of logs (rotated) for checking the weather. Is this really necessary?

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 241K May 31 17:00 indicator-weather.log
 1.0M May 29 16:10 indicator-weather.log.1
 1.0M May 14 16:46 indicator-weather.log.2

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Wouldn't it be better if the app accepted a switch at launch, like --debug, instead? I don't really see the point of logging all this info. I'm never going to look at this unless I'm developing?

Using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Package installed from Ubuntu Software Center.