Useless black bar in notification area visible

Btw, I think this is due to empathy, so it might be related to bug 290471.

I've noticed this too. This appears as update-notifier loads and does its stuff, and appears to be triggered by u-n

Isn't it triggered by notify-osd? Sorry, I'm not a dev, but I was wondering if we shouldn't file it against notify-osd.

E.g. the black bar always appears when I open empathy and I get the message "You are now logged in as....", which has nothing to do with updates but rather with notifications.

notify-osd doesn't do anything with the notification area. update-notifier does. I see this every time i log in after one minute, when update-notifier starts

I suppose you could be experiencing an issue with empathy too though, but i don't think it's anything to do with notify-osd

I have the black bar and I don't even have update-notifier running. I do get the black bar exactly at the point where empathy starts and there is a notification bubble saying that I am now logged in to IRC chat.

I marked this as also affects empathy, I suspect it is the indicator patch to empathy. I will try to reproduce it with update-notifier just to make sure.

I don't think this is actually affecting update-notifier, it was an empathy bug.

This bug was fixed in the package empathy - 2.28.0.1-1ubuntu6

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empathy (2.28.0.1-1ubuntu6) karmic; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/20_libindicate.patch
    - display the status icon when the indicator isn't present (LP: #435329)
    - don't attach notifications to the status icon if the icon
      isn't visible, it was drawing a black line (LP: #434316)
  * debian/patches/30_raise_not_toggle.patch
    - Updated to apply cleanly

 -- Ken VanDine <email address hidden> Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:34:36 -0400

This bug hasn't been fixed for me, on an up to date Ubuntu 10.04.

It is not an Empathy bug. Maybe Empathy was triggering the bug, but I do not have Empathy installed on my system, and I still have this bug happening. The only thing I have running in the Notification Area is the NetworkManager Applet.

The black line appears at seemingly random times. Often it just flickers a bit, appearing and disappearing right after. But right now I'm looking at it just standing there. It doesn't disappear if I move the Notification Area or click on the NetworkManager Applet or anything, although it will probably be gone again if I reboot.

@Geert, could you please type 'apt-cache policy empathy' and 'uname -a' and paste that information here. Also a screenshot of whats happening to you (when it happens) would be good.

I can't reproduce the bug right now, because it happens randomly for me. But it looks exactly like the screenshot that's attached to this bug report: it's a 1 pixel vertical black line that appears next to an icon in the system tray.

Here's the information:

geertjan@geertjan-desktop:~$ apt-cache policy empathy
empathy:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 2.30.1-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
     2.30.1-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main Packages
     2.30.0.1-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages
geertjan@geertjan-desktop:~$ uname -a
Linux geertjan-desktop 2.6.32-22-generic #33-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 28 13:27:30 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux

The bug is still there in lucid: the black bar shows up for a split second right after boot. But disappears right away, so it's not such a big problem.