notification daemon is broken on lubuntu precise

[jmattock78]

with the latest upgrade to precise with lubuntu notification-daemon crashes. simple testcase is to..:
 /usr/lib/notification-daemon/notification-daemon
then in another terminal
notify-send test

here I get notification-daemon exiting.

not sure why, but a quick solution is to remove the package and uninstall a previous version. then notify-osd works good..

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: notification-daemon 0.7.1-4
Uname: Linux 3.3.0-rc2-00116-g71b1b20 i686
ApportVersion: 1.91-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Feb 4 22:27:14 2012
InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - i386 (20101203)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: notification-daemon
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-02-04 (0 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Javier López (javier-lopez)]

I don't think this is the same as bug #122637 since that one crashes with a specific status and affected Ubuntu 7.10, the notification daemon worked in Ubuntu Lucid, probably in maverick too, this error gives no message, I think this is probably related to a gtk3 change or something.

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[cxp (cxp)]

Me too. I upgraded from 11.10 to 12.04 (x86_64). In 11.10 nothing happen.

I found out, that notification-daemon only crashes, if a gtk-2.0 theme is applied. On a normal installation of Lubuntu 12.04, a theme named "Lubuntu-default" is selected (which has also a gtk-3.0 directory). If I change to a gtk-2.0 only theme like "Redmond", notification-daemon chrashes on first popup.

[jmattock78 (justinmattock-deactivatedaccount)]

On 05/09/2012 05:11 AM, cxp wrote:
> Me too. I upgraded from 11.10 to 12.04 (x86_64). In 11.10 nothing
> happen.
>
> I found out, that notification-daemon only crashes, if a gtk-2.0 theme
> is applied. On a normal installation of Lubuntu 12.04, a theme named
> "Lubuntu-default" is selected (which has also a gtk-3.0 directory). If I
> change to a gtk-2.0 only theme like "Redmond", notification-daemon
> chrashes on first popup.
>

so the gtkrc is the problem for notification daemon then?

[cxp (cxp)]

It could be. I do not really know how notification-daemon works (with gtk-2.0 and gtk-3.0 themes)

Interesting question would be, if notification-daemon works with only-gtk-2.0 version of "Lubuntu-default" theme. If it does, the problem could be related to gtkrc-file of other themes. If not, it could be an incompatibility of notification-daemon with gtk-2.0 themes.

[Cruxic (cruxic)]

I can confirm that this problem is related to theme. If I change from Lubuntu-default to "Clearlooks" and reboot, notification-daemon is either dead before my desktop shows or it dies shortly after and pops up the crash report dialog.

[Francisco Villar (villarf)]

I can also confirm this, it is theme related. I switched everything back to Lubuntu default and now crashes are gone.

[cxp (cxp)]

I don't really know which lib was updated, but the crashes are gone since last weekend. (libnotify-bin and notification-daemon weren't updated).

Perhaps it hast something to do with libgtk-3.

[Javier López (javier-lopez)]

yep, it seems like they pushed a default gtk3 theme, in my environment it looks weird, I'll keep notify-osd
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