Indicator-applet-session crashed

[Jeremy Nickurak]

Binary package hint: indicator-applet

Karmic's indicator-applet-session crashed.

No clear idea what triggered it. Apport reports:

> The problem cannot be reported:
>
> The program crashed on an assertion failure, but the message could not be retrieved. Apport does not support reporting these crashes

atrus@yeesha:~$ apt-cache policy indicator-applet-session
indicator-applet-session:
  Installed: 0.2.0-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.2.0-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.2.0-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://mirror.cpsc.ucalgary.ca karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[fumozzo (enri-fuma)]

I'm having the same bug. The indicator-applet-session crashes every time on gnome startup. Then, if it is reloaded, all works well. Apport refuses to produce a bug report, saying: "The program crashed on an assertion failure, but the message could not be retrieved"

[Glenn Brumfield (gbrumfield)]

+1

Ubuntu alpha 6 w/updates as of 26 Sep 09 in VBox 3.0.6 in Ubuntu 8.04.3 w/updates as of 26 Sep 09.

[Christoph Korn (c-korn)]

+1

The attached video shows the issue.

[Juan Manuel (lukather35)]

On my system the same problem occurs, but it always happens after closing a session and start another.

My system is in Spanish, and the message appears after trying to send the error is as follows:

El problema no puede notificarse:

El programa se colgó en el fallo de un aserto, pero no se pudo recuperar el mensaje. Apport no admite la notificación de tales cuelgues

My system:

Karmic Koala Alpha 6 (27-09-2009)

CPU: Quad Core 6600 2.40ghz
5gb Ram x 800mhz kingston
Motherboard: Asus P5K-E WIFI-AP EDITION
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 500GB SATA2 7200.12
HDD: Seagate 320GB SATA 2 7200.9
Gainward ATI 4870 512MB DDR5
Monitor: LG L192WS

[Christoph Korn (c-korn)]

After the applet just crashed apport popped up and collected some information.

(It still failed to file a bug but apport-unpack helped here)

I was happy that now there seems to be some more useful backtrace.

[Dave H (dave-hills-2009)]

Happens on my lenovo S10e netbook, on every power up.
Karmic Alpha 6 + all updates.

no crash report available.

OK after restart

[bill goldberg (billgoldbergmania)]

This started happening today for me when I log in. (fully up to date box as of sept. 28.

When in Gnome-Shell, it takes the entire DE down. Not in normal Gnome.

However sometimes Gnome freezes on start-up, happens every few boots. It could be related.

[Josh Leverette (coder543)]

This is a UI bug that would bug people to death. Therefore, the dev team needs to get to work. Such a bug should not remain open for two or more days... especially since there is not a whole lot of code to look through compared to something like firefox or openoffice. Correct me if I am wrong.

[Ted Gould (ted)]

On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 15:04 +0000, Josh Leverette wrote:
> Correct me if I am wrong.

You are.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package indicator-session - 0.1.5-0ubuntu2

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indicator-session (0.1.5-0ubuntu2) karmic; urgency=low

  * src/indicator-session.c:
    - Changing the start up of the services to be asynchronous, thank Ted Gould
      (lp: #436181)

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:25:38 +0200

[Michael (michaeljt)]

When was the fix released? I was seeing this a couple days ago on an up-to-date Karmic.