plugin fails to start when a MMC/SD card is inserted

[Florent]

Binary package hint: xfce4-sensors-plugin

when an SD card is present in the SD/MMC card reader, the plugin fails with error message in a popup:

x----------x
"hddtemp" was not executed correctly although it is executable ... not being setuid root.

An easy but dirty solution is to run "chmod u+s /usr/sbin/hddtemp" as root user and restart the plugin or its panel.

Calling "/usr/sbin/hddtemp -n -q /dev/mmcblk0" gave the following error:
ERREUR: /dev/mmcblk0: Impossible de détecter le type de bus (ou ce type de bus est inconnu)
x----------x
Approximated translation:
ERROR: /dev/mmcblk0: Unable to detect the bus type (or this bus type is unknown)
x----------x

AFAIK the bug is due to the plugin trying to read temperature of the SD card, which is not available.
The plugin should catch this error and ignore it silently.
If I insert the card later, once the panel is started, I don't meet such error.

Note: the beginning of the error message is irrelevant to this kind of error.

release: Ubuntu 8.04.1
package: xfce4-sensors-plugin 0.10.99.4~svn-r3775-2

[Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)]

Thanks for your bug report.
This should be fixed in svn by now.

[Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)]

Synced from debian unstable.