Weather Indicator

Only one user on a system can use indicator-weather due to the duplicate instance check

Bug #730378 reported by John S. Gruber
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Weather Indicator
Fix Released
Low
Unassigned
Weather Indicator 11.03.20 "Cloudy"
indicator-weather (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

No doubt obvious to the authors, perhaps intended.

I often have multiple userid's logged in simultaneously that have different set-ups. Because of the duplicate check only the first to log in can have indicator-weather. It would be nice if the duplicate check could include userid in the filename or some such unless there is a reason to limit the app to one per computer.

Between this and lp# 720030 it took me awhile to figure out what was happening.

Reference: patch for lp #707681

Thanks for the good work, and good luck.

Vadim Rutkovsky (roignac)
Changed in weather-indicator:
importance: Undecided → Low
milestone: none → cloudy
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in indicator-weather (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Vadim Rutkovsky (roignac) wrote :

Now pid file are stored in ~/.cache folder - this should solve the issue, though I could not test it.
Check 'Unstable builds' PPA in Weather Indicator Team for a new version with the fix

Changed in weather-indicator:
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
John S. Gruber (jsjgruber) wrote : Re: [Bug 730378] Re: Only one user on a system can use indicator-weather due to the duplicate instance check

Thanks, Vadim. I'm testing it now. I confirm it does allow two
userid's to run indicator-weather simultaneously.

Vadim Rutkovsky (roignac)
Changed in weather-indicator:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Andrew Starr-Bochicchio (andrewsomething)
Changed in indicator-weather (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Low
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package indicator-weather - 11.03.20+repack-0ubuntu1

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indicator-weather (11.03.20+repack-0ubuntu1) natty; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
   - Fix unsafe tempfile handling (LP: #720112).
   - Fix gconf related crashers (LP: #723557).
   - Fix TypeError in getHumidex() (LP: #730287).
   - Allow two userid's to run indicator-weather
     simultaneously (LP: #730378).
   - Fix night icon showing during daytime (LP: #715657).
   - Fix indicator invisible on first run (LP: #720030).
   - Fix AttributeError in __find_city_by_code() (LP: #733681).
   - Fix AttributeError when clicking "Forecast" if there is
     no network connection (LP: # 730193).
  * debian/control:
   - Drop depends on python-simplejson, python-gconf,
     python-pymetar, and python-gweather.
   - Add depends on python-desktopcouch-records and
     python-pywapi.
  * Drop all old patches, applied upstream.
  * 01_lp_738804.patch: Fix crash on city names with spaces.
  * debian/rules:
   - Tweak get-orig-source target for new upstream
     directory naming.
   - Don't compress AUTHORS and COPYING. Needed for
     about dialog.
  * debian/indicator-weather.install: Install AUTHORS
    and COPYING files to /usr/share/doc/indicator-weather
    to fix crash in about dialog.
  * debian/indicator-weather.lintian-overrides: Overide
    lintian warning about extra copyright file.
 -- Andrew Starr-Bochicchio <email address hidden> Sun, 20 Mar 2011 22:16:35 -0400

Changed in indicator-weather (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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