mail-notification 5.4 crashes in ubuntu 10.10

[Dakebusi]

Mail-notification 5.4 crashes with the new version of Ubuntu (10.10) when it gets started.

Anyone also experiencing this?

This is the bug report mail-notification generates:

System: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic #34-Ubuntu SMP Sun Oct 10 09:24:00 UTC 2010 i686
X Vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Vendor Release: 10900000
Selinux: No
Accessibility: Disabled
GTK+ Theme: Human-Clearlooks
Icon Theme: Humanity
GTK+ Modules: gnomesegvhandler, canberra-gtk-module

Memory status: size: 213962752 vsize: 213962752 resident: 18907136 share: 14544896 rss: 18907136 rss_rlim: 18446744073709551615
CPU usage: start_time: 1287327720 rtime: 33 utime: 27 stime: 6 cutime:0 cstime: 0 timeout: 0 it_real_value: 0 frequency: 100

---- Critical and fatal warnings logged during execution ----

** GLib-GObject **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
** mail-notification **: clearlooks_style_draw_render_icon: assertion `base_pixbuf != NULL' failed

----------- .xsession-errors ---------------------
** (gnome-session:2240): DEBUG: GsmDBusClient: obj_path=/org/freedesktop/DBus interface=org.freedesktop.DBus method=NameOwnerChanged
** (gnome-session:2240): DEBUG: GsmDBusClient: obj_path=/org/freedesktop/DBus interface=org.freedesktop.DBus method=NameOwnerChanged
** (gnome-session:2240): DEBUG: GsmDBusClient: obj_path=/org/freedesktop/DBus interface=org.freedesktop.DBus method=NameOwnerChanged
** (gnome-session:2240): DEBUG: GsmDBusClient: obj_path=/org/freedesktop/DBus interface=org.freedesktop.DBus method=NameOwnerChanged
** (gnome-session:2240): DEBUG: GsmDBusClient: obj_path=/org/freedesktop/DBus interface=org.freedesktop.DBus method=NameOwnerChanged
** (gnome-session:2240): DEBUG: GsmDBusClient: obj_path=/org/freedesktop/DBus interface=org.freedesktop.DBus method=NameOwnerChanged
** (gnome-session:2240): DEBUG: GsmDBusClient: obj_path=/org/freedesktop/DBus interface=org.freedesktop.DBus method=NameOwnerChanged
** (gnome-session:2240): DEBUG: GsmDBusClient: obj_path=/org/freedesktop/DBus interface=org.freedesktop.DBus method=NameOwnerChanged
** (gnome-session:2240): DEBUG: GsmDBusClient: obj_path=/org/freedesktop/DBus interface=org.freedesktop.DBus method=NameOwnerChanged
** (gnome-session:2240): DEBUG: GsmDBusClient: obj_path=/org/freedesktop/DBus interface=org.freedesktop.DBus method=NameOwnerChanged
** (gnome-session:2240): DEBUG: GsmDBusClient: obj_path=/org/freedesktop/DBus interface=org.freedesktop.DBus method=NameOwnerChanged
** (gnome-session:2240): DEBUG: GsmDBusClient: obj_path=/org/freedesktop/DBus interface=org.freedesktop.DBus method=NameOwnerChanged
ptrace: Operation not permitted.
/home/didac/2750: No such file or directory.
No stack.
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[Alok Sharma (alok-sharma)]

This is happening at my end also. I installed it and could never get to it. In other words, the app never runs. I am desperately looking for a solution.

[Dakebusi (busquets)]

Hi Alok,

Good news, i just solved the problem.

The problem is that mail-notification tries to load the icon stock_mail.png, which (I don't know why) has disappeared from the system when I updated to Ubuntu 10.10. The easy way to fix it is to copy any other icon you like and name it stock_mail.png. You have to do it in the folder /usr/share/icons/gnome/16x16/status/ and I have used the existing icon stock_mail-unread.png. Actually I have copy it in the 16x16, 24x24 and 32x32 status folders, just in case.

Once you have copied the icon you must run "sudo gtk-update-icon-cache" and MN should work.

I hope it works for you.

[Alok Sharma (alok-sharma)]

Hi Dakebusi,

I followed the above steps but but no good.

Sometimes if the app starts luckily, I get the message "host not found" prefixed with the mailbox name.

I also tried running it in the terminal as mail-notification -i and it displays the following output but no icon:

** INFO: <email address hidden>/Xxxxx: retrieving feed from https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom
** INFO: <email address hidden>/Xxxxxx: retrieving feed from https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom
** INFO: <email address hidden>/Xxxxxx: feed retrieved successfully (378 bytes)
** INFO: <email address hidden>/Xxxxxx: feed retrieved successfully (383 bytes)

Note: I have masked the mailbox names.

I would really love to see such a nice and beautiful app work.