[SOLVED] xfce4-weather-plugin is not showing data

mark_alfred · 10-11-2014, 12:28 PM

Code:

mark@mark-OptiPlex-755:~$ apt-cache showpkg xfce4-weather-plugin
Package: xfce4-weather-plugin
Versions: 
0.8.3-1 (/var/lib/apt/lists/ca.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_trusty_universe_binary-amd64_Packages) (/var/lib/dpkg/status)
 Description Language: 
                 File: /var/lib/apt/lists/ca.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_trusty_universe_binary-amd64_Packages
                  MD5: 75261edfb17dac04dbe7f9212ab0574b
 Description Language: en
                 File: /var/lib/apt/lists/ca.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_trusty_universe_i18n_Translation-en
                  MD5: 75261edfb17dac04dbe7f9212ab0574b
 Description Language: en_CA
                 File: /var/lib/apt/lists/ca.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_trusty_universe_i18n_Translation-en%5fCA
                  MD5: 75261edfb17dac04dbe7f9212ab0574b


Reverse Depends: 
  xfce4-weather-plugin:i386,xfce4-weather-plugin
  xubuntu-desktop,xfce4-weather-plugin
  xfce4-goodies,xfce4-weather-plugin
  ubuntustudio-desktop,xfce4-weather-plugin
Dependencies: 
0.8.3-1 - libc6 (2 2.4) libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (2 2.22.0) libglib2.0-0 (2 2.18.0) libgtk2.0-0 (2 2.24.0) libpango1.0-0 (2 1.14.0) libsoup2.4-1 (2 2.4.0) libxfce4ui-1-0 (2 4.9.0) libxfce4util6 (2 4.9.0) libxml2 (2 2.7.4) xfce4-panel (2 4.9.2) xfce4-weather-plugin:i386 (0 (null)) 
Provides: 
0.8.3-1 - 
Reverse Provides: 
mark@mark-OptiPlex-755:~$

Code:

mark@mark-OptiPlex-755:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
Release:	14.04
Codename:	trusty
mark@mark-OptiPlex-755:~$

xfce4-weather-plugin was working fine just a week ago on my system, but suddenly stopped working. It now cannot retrieve data. It simply shows a question mark and reads "No Data". I filed a bug report here, but I suspect a long time will pass before anyone looks at the report. So, hopefully someone here has a fix. See information above for further information, and also see link the the bug report I post above. Thanks.

mark_alfred · 10-11-2014, 01:19 PM

Okay, I did solve this. I ported from the source repository of utopic rather than trusty (via instructions here -- replacing "zabbix" with "xfce4-weather-plugin") for the newer version of xfce4-weather-plugin. So it is now working. Possibly purging and reinstalling the current version, 0.8.3-1, would have sufficed, since a purge was required. Regardless, I now have it working with the package I created (that being, xfce4-weather-plugin_0.8.3-2+local1_amd64.deb). In building the package it gave the following feedback: "W: xfce4-weather-plugin source: newer-standards-version 3.9.6 (current is 3.9.5)" which may have been the original cause of the error. Anyway, it's working now, so solved.