Re: Does gweather (gnome-applets) work for you?

[Nikos Charonitakis <nikosx gmail com>]

On Sun, 06 Mar 2005 15:10:09 +0000, Simos Xenitellis <simos74 gmx net> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> We (Greek Localisation Team) have some trouble getting gweather to run
> on the latest build of GNOME 2.10 (-soon to be).
> 
> The application crashes as soon as it runs and the stack trace gives
> little info (no debugging):
> 
> > > Using host libthread_db library
> "/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libthread_db.so.1".
> > > [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
> > > [New Thread -1221689216 (LWP 9019)]
> > > 0xffffe410 in ?? ()
> > > #0  0xffffe410 in ?? ()
> > > #1  0xbfffe9ac in ?? ()
> > > #2  0x00000000 in ?? ()
> > > #3  0xbfffe90c in ?? ()
> > > #4  0xb7db1413 in __waitpid_nocancel ()
> > >    from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0
> > > #5  0xb7f8dd97 in libgnomeui_module_info_get ()
> > >    from /usr/lib/libgnomeui-2.so.0
> > > #6  <signal handler called>
> > > #7  0xce9cce93 in ?? ()
> > > #8  0xce9dce95 in ?? ()
> > > #9  0x00a3ce95 in ?? ()
> > > #10 0x081efe40 in ?? ()
> > > #11 0x081157e8 in ?? ()
> > > #12 0x081f0190 in ?? ()
> > > #13 0x081efbc0 in ?? ()
> > > #14 0xbfffecb8 in ?? ()
> > > #15 0x081157e8 in ?? ()
> > > #16 0x081efe40 in ?? ()
> > > #17 0x081efd80 in ?? ()
> > > #18 0x081effd0 in ?? ()
> > > #19 0x08114a28 in ?? ()
> > > #20 0x08114a28 in ?? ()
> > > #21 0x08114a54 in ?? ()
> > > #22 0xbfffecf8 in ?? ()
> > > #23 0x08051806 in gweather_pref_load (gw_applet=0xce9dcea5)
> > >     at gweather-pref.c:1144
> 
> I think this looks like a problem loading the preferences, and in the
> case of gweather it might be those strings like
> 
> msgid "DEFAULT_RADAR"
> msgstr ""
> 
> Since countries outside the US (and Canada?) do not have a RADAR value,
> I have seen a lot of values here (like "This is not applicable", "----",
> " ") and so on. It looks possible that a crash is caused because due to
> unexpected input handling.
> I have not managed to try myself to remove the translation altogether
> (but keep LANG=el_GR.UTF-8) to see if it still happens, as I have not
> installed GNOME 2.10pre...
> 
> Could someone else who has GNOME 2.10(almost there) to try out gweather
> and see if it actually works for them?
> 
> Please report back your $LANG and if it works.
> 
> If possible, try different values for $LANG to help others.
> 
> Cheers,
> Simos
> 
> 
i ve filled a bug report for this 
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169386

read this, there is a different output than this you mentioned.
I ve tested also with the latest el.po but the problem remains.

Nikos