gnome-panel/clock-applet doesn't upgrade clock time

[Cesare Mastroianni]

Binary package hint: gnome-panel

At start-up, the clock-applet display the current time, but it freezes at this stage: no more update is shown. If I add one more clock-applet to the gnome-panel, it opens with the up-to-date time, and it also freezes without more updates.

This behaviour begun after upgrading to Lucid.

I suppose it is a bug.

Many thanks for Your help.

Ciao from Italy
CM

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: gnome-panel 1:2.30.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue May 11 10:45:39 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/gnome-panel/clock-applet
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=it_IT.utf8
 LANGUAGE=it_IT:it:en_GB:en
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-panel

[Till Ulen (tillulen)]

Thanks for reporting this bug!

I experience a similar problem with my clock. I wonder if my issue is the same as yours. Could you please provide more information about your problem?

When you move your mouse or press a key on the keyboard, does the clock unfreeze and start going again?

Is the clock slow compared to some correct clock outside your computer? You mentioned you could briefly see the current time by adding another clock applet to the panel. Does that applet show the exact time at the moment when it is added?

Open a terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal) and run a 'date' command. You can run it several times. Does it display the correct time?

[Cesare Mastroianni (cece)]

Il 12/05/2010 18:28, Alexander Konovalenko ha scritto:
> When you move your mouse or press a key on the keyboard, does the clock
> unfreeze and start going again?
>

When I left-click on the applet, it opens normally. However, if I try to
modify any parameter (for instance the "show seconds" option), the
modification doesn't take effect until the next applet is open. I mean,
if I modify the configuration the changes are not applied to the current
execution of the applet.

If I move the mouse onto the applet without a click, the pop-up tip
appears normally.

> Is the clock slow compared to some correct clock outside your computer?
>

The clock is stop: it doesn't up date at all.

> You mentioned you could briefly see the current time by adding another
> clock applet to the panel. Does that applet show the exact time at the
> moment when it is added?
>

Yes, the new applet shows the up-to-date time, which is different from
the original one (the former applet that is freezed).

> Open a terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal) and run a 'date'
> command. You can run it several times. Does it display the correct time?
>

Yes. Both hardware and system time is running normally: no problem at
this level.

Many thanks.
CM

[Cesare Mastroianni (cece)]

See attached image for instance ...
Ciao
CM

[Cesare Mastroianni (cece)]

Incredible to say... after 6 days the bug vanished today. This morning I boot up my computer and the clock-applet runs well, with normal second up-date.

During the last 6 days I never tried to change it or modify anything. So it seems that it repaired by itself.

I can't imagine what happened. Any hint?

Ciao
CM

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

closing the bug since it works fine now, thanks for the feedback.

[Cesare Mastroianni (cece)]

Yet more incredible to say, the bug reappears again since yesterday, after last upgrade.

Yesterday, APT-GET downloaded these packages:
libparted0debian1 (2.2-5ubuntu5, 2.2-5ubuntu5.1), empathy-common (2.30.1-0ubuntu1, 2.30.1.1-0ubuntu1), language-selector-common (0.5.7, 0.5.8), empathy (2.30.1-0ubuntu1, 2.30.1.1-0ubuntu1), parted (2.2-5ubuntu5, 2.2-5ubuntu5.1), language-selector (0.5.7, 0.5.8), gdm (2.30.0-0ubuntu5, 2.30.2.is.2.30.0-0ubuntu2), nautilus-sendto-empathy (2.30.1-0ubuntu1, 2.30.1.1-0ubuntu1)

After this, the clock freezed again. And today is still frozen after the new bootstrap. As before, if I run the clock applet again, the second instance works well.

Ciao
CM

[George Hamstra (hostage)]

Same bug on my system - VERY ANNOYING!