Comment 8 for bug 358537

Hi!

On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 07:29:12AM -0000, masterlolo wrote:
> I have checked dont't report this next time. I can see if this bug is
> always on.
>
> Before checked, I have try to deleted, purged giplet & reinstall : same bug on reboot.
> After add it on my bar, the address IP was my local address (192.168.x.x). My preferences was : eth0 www.getmyip.org
> I have try to change it and I have deleted 'eth0'... then this bug appear again ! (maybe a way)
> Then, I have change preferences eth0, by eth1 and add other server to get my IP all is work fine now (I have correct plubic IP Adress). My preferences is now : eth1 www.getmyip.org monip.org
>
> Note, I have only one card, as you can see :
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:16:e6:84:30:dd
> inet adr:192.168.1.10 Bcast:192.168.222.255 Masque:255.255.255.0
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
>
> lo Link encap:Boucle locale
> inet adr:127.0.0.1 Masque:255.0.0.0
> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
>
> If you don't see what the real bug, you can close it. For my side, it's
> ok and in next month I will reinstall Ubuntu

I just checked it again, now in a up to date jaunty. I don't think I
should simply ask to close this bug. But I'm still not able to
reproduce the crash. The following, if you have "eth0 www.getmyip.org"
in preferences, then first giplet probes eth0, then www.getmyip.org,
if it get's an ip from eth0, it will show the local ip. If eth0 is
missing in preferences, then it probes only www.getmyip.org, but if
this site is down, then giplet will show only the text "giplet". With
your last preferences "eth1 www.getmyip.org monip.org", if there is no
eth1, then it will probe www.getmyip.org, if from there there is also
neither an ip returned, monip.org is probed.

I can anyway try to ask upstream author about this Bug. On the other
side there was LP#307170. Lyman Li added a "timout functionality" to
giplet in 0.2.1, but this version didn't reach jaunty, since I
submitted the request for sync from Debian to late LP#354139.

If you have a testing environment, you can try to install the giplet
version in my PPA (the one in Debian sid).

Bests
Salvatore