Version 0.9 crashes Notification Icon

[Bill K.]

When first starting gm-notify 0.9, the Notification Icon crashed. Notification Icons asks if you want to restart it, and it takes several attempts to get it running. A few minutes later, when gm-notify notified me of new messages, Notification Icon crashed again.

[Bill K. (mataska44-deactivatedaccount)]

Ok, it's not crashing now. That may have been a transient hiccup.

[Bill K. (mataska44-deactivatedaccount)]

No, I figured it out. First, I meant Indicator Applet, not Notification Icon. But I found out it's gm-notify-config.py that's crashing it whenever I "Apply" any changes. Happens every time. No output from terminal.

[Alexander Hungenberg (alexander-hungenberg-gmail)]

mh. Does it really crash the complete applet? When clicking apply there should be a reload process, because the config utility kills all remaining gm-notify.py processes and starts a new one to apply the setting. But it should not crash the indicator-applet...

[Bill K. (mataska44-deactivatedaccount)]

Now it's not crashing the Indicator Applet, but whenever I Apply settings in the gm-notify-config.py, I see the icon reset to no new messages.

I've attached a video. You can see that I have 4 unread messages in my inbox (according to Firefox). Gmail notify says only two because it has already reset twice while I was testing it. Then I open the configurations dialog and click apply and it resets to zero again, although Firefox shows I still have 4 unread messages. I thought it might be resetting because Firefox is open to Gmail (which would also be a bug), but it does this even when Firefox is closed.

[Alexander Hungenberg (alexander-hungenberg-gmail)]

well, this is the normal behaviour because it kills running gm-notify instances and starts a new one, which resets the unread counter.

Normally this should be no problem, because you won't configure a mail notifier that often ;-)

[Bill K. (mataska44-deactivatedaccount)]

Ok, well I'm not getting Indicator Applet crashes anymore, but I will keep you posted.

[Bill K. (mataska44-deactivatedaccount)]

I knew I wasn't crazy. 0.9.5 crashed the Indicator Applet just like 0.9. Screenshot attached. It's the same thing that happened last time, I got three dialog boxes that popped up.

[Alexander Hungenberg (alexander-hungenberg-gmail)]

mh, do you have any idea how I could reproduce this bug?

[Bill K. (mataska44-deactivatedaccount)]

My best suggestion:

- purge gm-notify
- add Indicator Applet to the panel
- open something like Evolution, Pidgin, Gwibber, to make sure the icon is in the panel
- install gm-notify
- configure gm-notify
- click Apply

This is where Indicator Applet has crashed for me before.

[Alexander Hungenberg (alexander-hungenberg-gmail)]

mh, I tried this in a completely new / untouched VM and couldn't notice any crash. Maybe it's a indicator-applet bug?

[Bill K. (mataska44-deactivatedaccount)]

Do you know how to start Indicator Applet from terminal? Maybe I can get some informative output that way.

[Alexander Hungenberg (alexander-hungenberg-gmail)]

no, unfortunately I haven't got the faintest idea