music-applet fails on second login session

[Alexander Jones]

Binary package hint: music-applet

Steps to reproduce:
 1. Add music-applet to panel
 2. Test that music-applet functions correctly
 3. Log out
 4. Log back in

See that music-applet no longer works.

THIS BUG IS FIXED, IT IS WAITING FOR A PACKAGE UPDATE. PLEASE DO NOT ATTACH ANY MORE CRASH REPORTS OR "ME TOO" COMMENTS!

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Mar 18 03:39:23 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
Uname: Linux flash 2.6.20-11-generic #2 SMP Thu Mar 15 08:03:07 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Alexander Jones (alex-weej)]

I can see that music-applet is started with:

/usr/lib/gnome-applets/music-applet --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_Music_Applet_Factory --oaf-ior-fd=41

If I kill it, then start it with

/usr/lib/gnome-applets/music-applet --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_Music_Applet_Factory

(i.e. without the --of-ior-fd=$n option) it works.

[Alexandre Rosenfeld (airmind)]

The same happens when X is restarted by using Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, then Music-Applet can't work anymore. It happens with version 0.9.2. I heard it was rewritten for 2.2, which is in Gutsy, so it might not matter anymore.

[Alexander Jones (alex-weej)]

We were barking up the wrong tree - bonobo-activation-server is not supposed to be per-session at all.

Here's a patch to drop in. As per <http://library.gnome.org/devel/bonobo-activation/2.19/attribute-tag.html>. (See "bonobo:environment".)

[Hervé Cauwelier (hcauwelier-deactivatedaccount)]

Count me in the club!

I doubt it is related to an architecture. Probably a poorly written handler that doesn't close its resources at logout.

But I saw no news about a fix.

[Alexander Jones (alex-weej)]

I've posted the fix, some MOTU just needs to upload it.

[Savvas Radevic (medigeek)]

where's the fix?

[Savvas Radevic (medigeek)]

I think it's either music-applet or gnome-panel or gnome-panel-data
Every time I upgrade to some "big" gnome upgrades, which contain gnome-panel and gnome-panel-data the installation goes fine, but if I logout/login or logout/ctrl-alt-backspace (restart gnome)/login the result is that music-applet is replaced with a non-working thin line. No apport shown, although there is a report in /var/crash which points to "music-applet crashed with DBusException in __new__()":
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/music-applet/+bug/123353

It's confirmed every time there's a gnome-panel upgrade (4 so far since gutsy tribe 5 I think).

Is this the same case Alex?

[Alexander Jones (alex-weej)]

The fix is posted on this bug! bonobo-environment.patch

[Savvas Radevic (medigeek)]

but.. it's still happening on gutsy? :\ can you notify someone to take a look at it?

[Alexander Jones (alex-weej)]

No-one has committed this...

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

I have asked upstream to have a look at this.

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

This has now been applied upstream and will flow down after next release.
This can be fixed for hardy straight away, for gutsy it would requires an SRU (which I doubt will be granted).

[Pedro Verbel (gtuxyco)]

Bueno la solucion es simple,
ejecutamos en un terminal "sudo gedit /etc/bonobo-activation/bonobo-activation-config.xml"

Este
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<oafconfig>
<searchpath>
    <!-- Examples: -->
    <!-- <item>/opt/gnome2/lib/bonobo/servers</item> -->
    <!-- <item>/usr/local/gnome2/lib/bonobo/servers</item> -->
    <!-- <item>/usr/local/lib/bonobo/servers</item> -->
    <!-- <item>/opt/gnome2/bonobo-activation/lib/bonobo/servers</item> -->
</searchpath>
</oafconfig>
El cual vamos a cambiar la linea " <!-- <item>/usr/local/lib/bonobo/servers</item> -->"
por " <!-- <item>/usr/lib/bonobo/servers</item> -->"

Reiniciamos y listo.. esta funcionando

[Pedro Verbel (gtuxyco)]

solucionado

[Savvas Radevic (medigeek)]

the fix is released for hardy ?

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

No

[Hervé Cauwelier (hcauwelier-deactivatedaccount)]

Pedro, I don't understand how changing a commented line would help.

Also, I'm perplexed by the usage of Spanish here.

[Alexandre Rosenfeld (airmind)]

The fix proposed by Pedro didnt work for me. Indeed, I dont know how a comment would make any difference.

However the fix in bonobo-enviroment.patch worked very well.
You can apply it in Gutsy by adding the following lines to the end of the first <oaf_server> tag, in the file /usr/lib/bonobo/servers/GNOME_Music_Applet.server :

    <oaf_attribute name="bonobo:environment" type="stringv">
        <item value="DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS"/>
    </oaf_attribute>

Can someone confirm this was fixed upstream?

[Alexander Jones (alex-weej)]

I am beginning to get sick of hearing about this bug. The fix is there, some MOTU just needs to add it to the package, as it's obvious that upstream doesn't care anymore.

[Paul Kuliniewicz (kuliniew)]

Sorry, upstream forgot it was his responsibility to maintain the Ubuntu package himself. Like https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/music-applet/+bug/93284/comments/12 said two months ago, the patch will be in the next release, so it's a pretty good bet that the patch fixes the problem.

[qwerty6523 (qwerty6523)]

i have ubuntu gutsy i386 and when I install music-applet i add it to the panel and run it. it works. then i log out and log back in. i run it it still it works. i cant seem to reproduce this bug. please tell me if im doing anything wrong.

Launchpad Bug Tracker <email address hidden> wrote: You have been subscribed to a public bug:

Binary package hint: music-applet

Steps to reproduce:
 1. Add music-applet to panel
 2. Test that music-applet functions correctly
 3. Log out
 4. Log back in

See that music-applet no longer works.

Looks like something to do with D-Bus, but I'm not 100% sure.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Mar 18 03:39:23 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
Uname: Linux flash 2.6.20-11-generic #2 SMP Thu Mar 15 08:03:07 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

** Affects: music-applet (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Low
     Assignee: qwerty6523 (qwerty6523)
         Status: Confirmed

** Affects: music-applet (Ubuntu Hardy)
     Importance: Low
     Assignee: qwerty6523 (qwerty6523)
         Status: Confirmed

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[Savvas Radevic (medigeek)]

I think the problem is visible when gnome-panel and/or music-applet are upgraded. I don't have any upgrades to do for the moment so.. :) It could be a d-bus problem too.

See my remarks at comment: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/music-applet/+bug/93284/comments/7
Also, Alex Jones says he has found a patch for the bonobo-environment that fixes it:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/music-applet/+bug/93284/comments/3

[Alexandre Rosenfeld (airmind)]

Fix will be released upstream

[qwerty6523 (qwerty6523)]

but never get the bug when i try i dint why i dont

Savvas Radević <email address hidden> wrote: I think the problem is visible when gnome-panel and/or music-applet are
upgraded. I don't have any upgrades to do for the moment so.. :) It
could be a d-bus problem too.

See my remarks at comment: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/music-applet/+bug/93284/comments/7
Also, Alex Jones says he has found a patch for the bonobo-environment that fixes it:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/music-applet/+bug/93284/comments/3

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[Savvas Radevic (medigeek)]

This is still occuring, I'm attaching a crash report, if it's helpful.

[Matti Lindell (mlind)]

Fixed in Intrepid, version 2.3.1-1. I made a backport request for Hardy in bug #230505 which addresses the Hardy task.

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

music-applet (2.3.1-1~hardy1) hardy-backports; urgency=low

  * Automated backport upload; no source changes.