Indicator-applet-session shows 'no-indicators'

[jamey0824]

Binary package hint: indicator-applet-session

just did a partial upgrade on my lucid box, now indicator-applet-session says No Indicators. There is no log off, shutdown, switch users, etc.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Mar 25 17:47:30 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release Candidate amd64 (20091020.3)
Package: indicator-applet-session 0.3.4-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-17.26-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
SourcePackage: indicator-applet
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-17-generic x86_64

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Can you please try sudo apt-get install indicator-session, logout and login again and see if that solves the problem

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Ignore my last comment please. Please try to remove indicator-applet-session from the panel and add it again and see if that solves the problem.

[tubeamp (andy-a)]

Removing the applet from the panel, and then adding again did not solve the problem.

When trying:-
sudo apt-get remove indicator-session
The response was that the package did not exist, so then trying:-
sudo apt-get install indicator-session
and then adding indicator applet session to the panel has resolved the issue.
This would imply that the applet was removed during the last upgrade.

This has been a fix on my system.

[jamey0824 (jamesforyst)]

ran
sudo apt-get remove Indicator-applet-session

and it defaulted remove two packages Indicator-applet-session and ubuntu-desktop

ran
sudo apt-get install Indicator-applet-session

and it interestingly it doesn't add ubuntu-desktop backin in so i canceled and ran
sudo apt-get install Indicator-applet-session ubuntu-desktop

and reboot, Works fine
Not quite sure why it removes ubuntu-desktop, i haven't mastered dependencies yet, (But that doesn't seem right)

[Matthew L. Dailey (matthew-l-dailey)]

It looks like this may be a dependency problem in ubuntu-desktop.

Looking at the changelog for indicator-applet, it looks like the dependencies for this changed back on 15 Feb:
indicator-applet (0.3.2-0ubuntu3) lucid; urgency=low

  * debian/control:
    - Switching indicator-session and indicator-me to recommends
      of indicator-applet-session.
    - Switching indicator-applet-complete to recommend everything.
    - Adding indicator-application to indicator-applet recommends

 -- Ted Gould <email address hidden> Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:58:15 -0600

So, I think perhaps indicator-applet-complete needs to be added to ubuntu-desktop, since the dependency from indicator-applet-session no longer exists.

[Peter Passchier (peter-passchier)]

Got solved by: apt-get install indicator-session, logout and login again
(it wasn't installed).

[Jason J. Herne (hernejj)]

It looks like multiple people have reported this and have posted a suitable workaround.
I'm guessing marking it as confirmed was simply overlooked.
Marking as 'confirmed'.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

can any one please confirm if this is still an issue in fully updated lucid?

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Marking this bug fixed for now. If any one still face this with fully updated Lucid feel free to open this bug again.

[enb (elitenoobboy)]

I just upgraded two machines to the new lucid release, and in each of them, indicator-session was not installed by default and had to be manually installed. ubuntu-desktop was also not kept installed during the upgrade. Does anyone know what might cause this?

[stacy parson (nitestar-24)]

I installed Ubuntu 10.04 server and wanted a minimum ubuntu desktop environment so I ran the following command: sudo aptitude install --without-recommends ubuntu-desktop. When I did this, everything worked correctly but I did not have any indicators. Thankfully I found this bug and was able to remedy the problem by running the command: sudo aptitude install indicator-session and then logging out and logging back in.

[stacy parson (nitestar-24)]

Sorry... I forgot to add that I also had previously done a full ubuntu-desktop install on top of the 10.04 server install and the applicator had worked fine.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

stacy, in your case certainly there are some things missing that need to be
installed

On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 8:44 PM, stacy parson <email address hidden>wrote:

> Sorry... I forgot to add that I also had previously done a full ubuntu-
> desktop install on top of the 10.04 server install and the applicator
> had worked fine.
>
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> Indicator-applet-session shows 'no-indicators'
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/548414
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> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: indicator-applet-session
>
> just did a partial upgrade on my lucid box, now indicator-applet-session
> says No Indicators. There is no log off, shutdown, switch users, etc.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: amd64
> Date: Thu Mar 25 17:47:30 2010
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release Candidate amd64
> (20091020.3)
> Package: indicator-applet-session 0.3.4-0ubuntu1
> ProcEnviron:
> LANG=en_US.utf8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-17.26-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
> SourcePackage: indicator-applet
> Uname: Linux 2.6.32-17-generic x86_64
>
>
>