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gnome-panel package

Notification area icons missing or broken

Bug #584351 reported by seth1123
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: firefox

Using Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid) and GNOME 2.30.0, build date 3/31/10.

The GNOME Panel 2.30.0 notification area has been showing erratic behavior in drawing expected icons. When I was running Karmic, the notification area always displayed icons for my Wi-fi connection and the system audio volume level; if my laptop battery was charging or discharging, an appropriate battery icon would be show as well.

Since upgrading to Lucid, these icons are not being drawn (and are not accessible) in the notification area. I tried removing the notification area from the panel and reinstalling it, which helped temporarily (several restarts over several days drew the wi-fi icon correctly). However, the wi-fi icon is now not being drawn (despite me being connected).

I just now removed the notification area from my panel and re-added it, and the wi-fi icon is again present; the battery icon is displayed when I unplug the machine and the battery discharges. I will update this bug report if this behavior continues.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: firefox 3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat May 22 16:40:54 2010
FirefoxPackages:
 firefox 3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu4
 firefox-gnome-support 3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu4
 firefox-branding 3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu4
 abroswer N/A
 abrowser-branding N/A
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox

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seth1123 (seth-e-watts) wrote :
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seth1123 (seth-e-watts) wrote :

Two items:

(1) Perhaps because of how I did my ubuntu-bug report, this is listed as being "in" Firefox - it is not. It is a problem with GNOME Panels.

(2) After submitting my bug report (above) I restarted my machine. When I logged in, I found that again no icons were drawn in the notification area. I am attaching two cropped screen shots to illustrate what I mean. The first (top) is the panel just after restarting. The second (bottom) is the panel after "Remove From Panel"-ing the notification area and re-adding it with the "Add to Panel..." wizard.

I will be the first to note that this is not a critical bug, but it is somewhat annoying.

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Saurav (sauravzone1) wrote :

This report incorrectly had firefox as the affected package. As reported by the original author too, the bug actually seems to affect gnome-panel.

affects: firefox (Ubuntu) → gnome-panel (Ubuntu)
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Saurav (sauravzone1) wrote :

I have a similar problem. I have a Dell Inspiron 1545 laptop with Intel GM45 graphics, on which the icons in my notification area sometimes come up as overlapped duplicates, sometimes as broken images and sometimes not at all (missing icons). However, in my case this is random and logging out and then logging in again usually corrects the problem for the time being. I will attach a screenshot the next time I experience this issue. Bug #569996 too seems to be caused by this one, although it is marked as affecting gnome-power-manager as of this writing.

Saurav

summary: - Notification area does not contain icons
+ Notification area icons missing or broken
tags: added: broken icons missing notification
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Saurav (sauravzone1) wrote :

This bug seems to be a duplicate of bug #439448.

Saurav

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seth1123 (seth-e-watts) wrote :

I agree that the pathologies described in bug 439448 are similar to those I am experiencing. I have not (yet?) seen doubled icons, drawn but inactive icons, overwritten icons, or "broken image" icons. However, it does seem likely that all of these problems stem from some common underlying problem.

In the thread on bug 439448, it appears that notice of this bug has been passed upstream to the Gnome developers. Further action at this point by the Ubuntu community is thus likely not warranted.

Saurav, thank you for finding that bug - I searched for something similar, but didn't find this report (or its duplicates).

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Saurav (sauravzone1) wrote :

@seth1123: First, the problems described in bug #439448 are numerous, covering almost all the symptoms being experienced across the user base. The specific issue(s) you are experiencing also seem to stem from this bug, so you might consider marking this one as a duplicate of 439448. Second, you probably did not find 439448 because of mistakenly marking firefox as the affected package. Trying to add apport-collect information for gnome-panel for this bug, it was recommended that I file a separate bug report. Only then on trying to do that did Launchpad find several similar bug reports where I found 439448. Actually, there ought to be an easy way to specify the affected package as a search criterion when we search the database manually.

Regards,
Saurav

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported, but feel free to report any other bugs you find.

Changed in gnome-panel (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Invalid
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