Clock Applet crashes for no reason

Happend to me after rebooting gdm a couple of times. Please give me a hint which logs to upload ?

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I'm closing this bug report since the process outlined above will automatically open a new bug report which can then dealt with more efficiently. Thanks in advance for your cooperation and understanding.

Changing to confirmed. There is no crash report because gdm did not crash only the Clock-applet.

So please; tell me where I can find the crash info from the applets and I will upload the infos.

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please try to obtain a backtrace following the instructions at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash and upload the backtrace (as an attachment) to the bug report. This will greatly help us in tracking down your problem.

This happens to me also. I have to log out and in again to make it work. It just crashes without reason, sometimes even just after boot.

Keeps happening. Also i found out you do not have to log off and on again. Going to preferences and toggling 12-hour format and back to 24-hour format also seems to "refresh" the clock and then it is functional again.

we need a backtrace of the crash, please read the previous comments to know how to get it, if you have questions please drop it here in the report, thanks.

Unfortunately I will not be able to do the backtrace. A few weeks ago I was having some issues with the Ubuntu and video that was a real show stopper. Could not do any work, or get anything done. So I had to re-install Ubuntu. This is no longer an issue for me.

Its still an issue for me and i also get the right most button (the one with shut down in it) crashing from time to time! O_O.
I will provide a backtrace next time it occurs.

I have another crash currently and the clock shows another part of the gnome panel instead of the time.
Specifically it shows the date "Sun Jun 13," but truncated because the clock is smaller so it only shows "Jun 13, " and a couple of dots on each side. (see attachment)

I installed debug symbols and tried to do a backtrace, but as i understand it, i have to start gnome-panel with gdb. Since the crash occurs randomly and usually when i am logging in to the system, i don't understand how i am supposed to do that. Also, because the crash occurs randomly i can't "Perform any actions necessary to reproduce the crash."

Do i have to always start gnome-panel with gdb on start-up and keep logging off and on until the crash happens?

Another thing i noticed: The above behaviour occurs only on my box which was upgraded from 9.10 to 10.04. All other installations i made (5-6) don't have this problem.

you can enable apport as Chris described in his previous comment and report the crash with it.

I enabled apport and the bug did occur, however a crash report is not generated. I know its working because i got some other bug reports and the exclamation mark appeared when this happened.

Maybe its not a "crash" per se?

I am having the same problem.

Adding multiple locations and disconnecting from the internet seems to produce this error reliably.
I have made a backtrace, which hopefully contains some useful info.

Hi,

I have the same problem when I click on the clock to display the calendar. Here's the crash report.

Thanks

the report is no use, please enable apport and submit the crash trough it, the backtraces attached are empty and people already started to comment because of the title, please enable apport as Chris said and submit a new report, thanks.

I am not able to send it through apport as it says it failed to retrieve message related to assertion failure. I am attaching the crash file.

This bug is 100% reproducible. I am using Lucid Lynx.

I have attached my crash file. I enabled apport, but it refuses to upload the crash:

"The problem cannot be reported: The program crashed on an assertion failure, but the message could not be retrieved. Apport does not support reporting these crashes."

Why are assertions enabled in production code? And if you choose to enable them, the apport bug reporter should be able to handle them like any other crash.

Yes, this bug is now affecting me too. 10.04 fully up-to-date on 18th July 2013, kernel ver 2.6.32-49.

The problem is not really a crash, but a hang that sometimes recovers.

I managed to grab a gdb trace when it hung, but don't have debug symbols for most things.

Hope this helps!

gdonwallace, this bug report is being closed due to your last comment https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-panel/+bug/580735/comments/8 regarding this being fixed with a reinstall. For future reference you can manage the status of your own bugs by clicking on the current status in the yellow line and then choosing a new status in the revealed drop down box. You can learn more about bug statuses at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Status. Thank you again for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please submit any future bugs you may find.