xfce4-weather-plugin does not retain configuration

[Andrew Pam]

Immediately after upgrading to Ubuntu 16.04, the weather applet always loses the configuration and reverts to "No data" on every login. If I set the location, it will work correctly until I log out.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: xfce4-weather-plugin 0.8.6-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-34.53-generic 4.4.15
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-34-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Sun Aug 14 12:35:20 2016
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-06-30 (775 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140416.2)
SourcePackage: xfce4-weather-plugin
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-07-31 (14 days ago)

[Pes93 (pes93)]

Created attachment 6475
This shows me the plugin in panel after reboot

The plugin settings are lost after a reboot.This happens not always, but often. I have to reconfigure the plugin after a reboot.I have the cache files in the directory /home/user/.cache/xfce4/weather/, but the plugin shows in panel "no data". I can provide logs, but I can't find anything about weather plugin. I don't use desktop manager. Xfce starts from console manually.

debian testing, linux kernel 4.2.0-1-amd64, xfce 4.12 from repository.

[Pes93 (pes93)]

I don't save session before poweroff.
.xsession-errors contains:
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Xsession: X session started for mixtape at Сб окт 10 02:47:35 MSK 2015
localuser:mixtape being added to access control list
/usr/bin/x-session-manager: X server already running on display :0
xrdb: "Xft.hintstyle" on line 9 overrides entry on line 6
xrdb: "Xft.hinting" on line 10 overrides entry on line 5
xfce4-session-Message: SSH authentication agent is already running

(xfce4-session:1074): xfce4-session-WARNING **: xfsm_manager_load_session: Something wrong with /home/mixtape/.cache/sessions/xfce4-session-machine:0, Does it exist? Permissions issue?

** (nm-applet:1097): WARNING **: Error retrieving accessibility bus address: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.a11y.Bus was not provided by any .service files

** (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1115): WARNING **: Error retrieving accessibility bus address: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.a11y.Bus was not provided by any .service files
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Произошла ошибка: Не удалось инициализировать модуль
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[Gogo44471 (gogo44471)]

I can confirm. this bug occurs sometimes. Applet shows "No Data", and all settings are lost. I have found a workaround for restoring settings:

once you configured weather plugin go to ~/.config/xfce4/panel/, find file weather-*.rc and copy it to weather-*.rc.fix in the same directory. Now create а script:

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#!/bin/sh

cfgdir="~/.config/xfce4/panel"

bckfile=`ls $cfgdir/weather*.rc.fix`
cfgfile=${bckfile%.*}

cp $bckfile $cfgfile
pid=`ps -ef | grep -m 1 libweather.so | awk '{print $2}'`
kill $pid
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this script will restore your settings and relaunch weather plugin. You can execute it from desktop launcher when plugin shows "No Data".

[Andrew Pam (xanni)]

Other configuration settings are also lost, so the title of this bug should be amended to "xfce4-weather-plugin does not retain configuration"

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Vier Eck (viereck)]

I also have this behaviour, on Arch Linux.

[Vier Eck (viereck)]

... to add: The ~/.config/xfce4/panel/weather-[0-9]*.rc still are there and have sensible configuration, but on reboot the applet somehow does not load them. (I have three applet instances of the applet and three config files; for three different locations.)

[Vier Eck (viereck)]

... another place where settings are saved is `~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-panel.xml`. Settings there seem to be retained.