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indicator-session package

  1. Bug #506683
  2. Comment #16

Comment 16 for bug 506683

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Ted Gould (ted) wrote : Re: [Bug 506683] Re: indicator-applet doesn't show menu choices when selected

On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 16:26 +0000, David Barth wrote:
> When booting the new UNE session on Lucid on my netbook, with
> autologin enabled, sometime the session service is not running
> (crash or race condition) and so the menu is empty. When trying
> to restart the indicator-session-service, it cannot register again,
> and on the command line I get:
> ....
> *** (process:1747): DEBUG: GDM Settings change: true
> *** (process:1747): DEBUG: Service shutdown

The restart issue of reconnecting is a known issue, the code just isn't
written yet. This will be in a future release of libindicator.

What I'd like to track down in this bug is why, in some cases, it seems
that indicator-session-service isn't starting. Unfortunately it seems
that bonobo swallows a bunch of the logging messages.

Here's a shot in the dark :) Put this in a .desktop file
in .config/autostart/

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Test
Exec=/usr/lib/libindicator/indicator-loader /usr/lib/indicators/3/libsession.so

That'll start a small window with the session indicator in it, hopefully
then some error messages will end up in .xsession-errors