Ubuntu
libdbusmenu package

[natty] mute menu item becomes greyed out

Bug #730198 reported by Marc Deslauriers
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
The Sound Menu
Invalid
Medium
Conor Curran
libdbusmenu (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: indicator-sound

This has happened for the past week or two. After a fresh reboot, the "mute" item in the sound indicator's menu works fine. After a certain time, it becomes greyed out (inactive), and it is not possible to mute the sound anymore.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: indicator-sound 0.6.2-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-5.32-generic 2.6.38-rc6
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-5-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Mar 6 11:33:10 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: indicator-sound
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-02-01 (32 days ago)

Related branches

lp:~ted/libdbusmenu/i-love-the-ping-of-ken-in-the-morning
Conor Curran (community): Approve
Diff: 66 lines (+14/-6)
1 file modified
libdbusmenu-glib/menuitem.c (+14/-6)
lp:ubuntu/natty/libdbusmenu
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Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur) wrote :
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Conor Curran (cjcurran) wrote :

Hmm, this sounds like Pulse is dying and not restarting properly. I did notice something similar at a time in this cycle when there was alot of work going on in dbusmenu (the library responsible for that button) but not for a few weeks now.

Could you confirm the bug by:

1. When the menu is working as expected, open a terminal and type ' pulseaudio --k'
2. Check the menu to see if the bug is visible.

Conor

Changed in indicator-sound:
assignee: nobody → Conor Curran (cjcurran)
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Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur) wrote :

Yes, that seems to be what is happening. If I kill pulseaudio, and then start totem, pulseaudio gets spawned again so the mixer starts working, but the mute menu item remains greyed out.

I'm not sure why you think pulse isn't being restarted properly, as everything else works.

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Conor Curran (cjcurran) wrote :

Okay fine, I'll test here. But this lack of consistency in the button behaviour makes me believe the bug belongs down in dbusmenu.
>>I'm not sure why you think pulse isn't being restarted properly, as everything else works.
 Just thought you might not have had pulse on autospawn which would result in the button being continually greyed out after pulse going down.

Changed in indicator-sound:
milestone: none → 0.6.3
importance: Undecided → Medium
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Conor Curran (cjcurran) wrote :

Just spoke with Ted, this is a dbusmenu issue.
Fix coming early this week.

Thanks for reporting this.

Conor

Ken VanDine (ken-vandine)
affects: indicator-sound (Ubuntu) → libdbusmenu (Ubuntu)
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package libdbusmenu - 0.3.100-0ubuntu3

---------------
libdbusmenu (0.3.100-0ubuntu3) natty; urgency=low

  * libdbusmenu-glib/menuitem.c
    - Steal earlier instead of later so that signal handlers don't find the
      value in the hashtable (LP: #725603) (LP: #730198)
 -- Ken VanDine <email address hidden> Mon, 07 Mar 2011 14:27:09 -0500

Changed in libdbusmenu (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
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nmarques (nmo-marques) wrote :

Worked out for me. Good job.

Ted Gould (ted)
Changed in indicator-sound:
status: New → Invalid
Conor Curran (cjcurran)
Changed in indicator-sound:
milestone: 0.6.3 → none
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