docklets that require network connectivity do not update

[Charlie Meyer]

Docklets such as weather and gmail that require network connectivity to function do not update. I was able to add my location to the weather docklet and was able to successfully verify my gmail credentials in the gmail docklet settings, but neither of them will updated even with full network connectivity on my machine. I expect the weather to display and the gmail docklet to function properly. This was not present in natty.

chuck@silverstone:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Release: 12.04
chuck@silverstone:~$ apt-cache policy docky
docky:
  Installed: 2.1.4-1
  Candidate: 2.1.4-1
  Version table:
 *** 2.1.4-1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: docky 2.1.4-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.37-generic 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: openafs nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue May 15 10:07:41 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: docky
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Stephen Zimmerman (szimmer3)]

Confirmed this bug, but with a weird qualification:

With a default install of Xubuntu 12.04 I ran into this problem consistently (i.e. I never saw either applet populate data), regardless of wired/wireless connectivity, and across many system restarts and docky restarts.

For unrelated reasons, I uninstalled the network-manager package and replaced it with wicd. The applets now work flawlessly. I don't know enough about how Docky determines connectivity to say whether this is its problem or network-manager's, but I have now confirmed that making this switch fixes the problem on multiple machines.