Gnome-shell weather extension hung

[Matthew Saltzman]

I have one machine that has
gnome-shell-extension-weather-0-0.13.git7587e23.fc20.noarch from
RPMFusion installed.  When gnome-shell starts, the icon in the task bar
displays a circular arrow with a caution sign.  That eventually decays
to just the arrow.  The weather conditions never appear.  The pop-down
menu reports "Loading Weather", but nothing ever loads.  Clicking
"Reload Weather" has no effect.  This behavior occurs no matter what
city I select.

I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling the extension and I've tried to
locate files or settings that should be cleared or reset, but to no
avail.  Can anyone suggest how to debug this?  I have several other
machines that use the same extension from the same source, all running
F20, and they all work fine, so I'm at a loss.

TIA.

-- 
Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Wed, 2014-04-09 at 00:45 +0930, Tim wrote: 
>  Allegedly, on or about 07 April 2014, Matthew Saltzman sent:
>  > I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling the extension and I've tried
>  > to locate files or settings that should be cleared or reset 
>  
>  General advice:  Un-installing and reinstalling rarely helps, this isn't
>  Windows.  You would have had to have a screw up during install, or some
>  random error, for installed files to go amiss.  Something I've never
>  seen, in umpteen years of using Linux.  Not that it's impossible, but
>  quite unlikely.  And un-installing does not remove configuration files
>  that you've created.  So, a re-install will get the same configuration.
>  
I know all that, but ran out of ideas after killing anything that looked
to me like a configuration file or cache file in my home directory
didn't help.

>  
>  If you can't find the configuration files, you can try creating a new
>  user (a new user has less files for you to look for).  Wait a moment or
>  two, configure what you want to investigate, then look for configuration
>  files with that timestamp on them.
>  
Was getting close to that, but hoped somebody would have a simpler
solution.

Thanks for the suggestions.

>  
>  
-- 
Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu

[Tim]

Allegedly, on or about 07 April 2014, Matthew Saltzman sent:
>  I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling the extension and
> I've tried
>  to locate files or settings that should be cleared or reset  
General advice:  Un-installing and reinstalling rarely helps, this isn't
Windows.  You would have had to have a screw up during install, or some
random error, for installed files to go amiss.  Something I've never
seen, in umpteen years of using Linux.  Not that it's impossible, but
quite unlikely.  And un-installing does not remove configuration files
that you've created.  So, a re-install will get the same configuration.

If you can't find the configuration files, you can try creating a new
user (a new user has less files for you to look for).  Wait a moment or
two, configure what you want to investigate, then look for configuration
files with that timestamp on them.

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[Matthew Saltzman]

On Mon, 2014-04-07 at 15:04 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: 
>  yOn Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 06:54:15PM +0000, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>  > I have one machine that has
>  > gnome-shell-extension-weather-0-0.13.git7587e23.fc20.noarch from
>  > RPMFusion installed.  When gnome-shell starts, the icon in the task bar
>  > displays a circular arrow with a caution sign.  That eventually decays
>  > to just the arrow.  The weather conditions never appear.  The pop-down
>  > menu reports "Loading Weather", but nothing ever loads.  Clicking
>  > "Reload Weather" has no effect.  This behavior occurs no matter what
>  > city I select.
>  
>  I think it has something to do with the weather service used. Some number of
>  requests can be made without having an individual API key, but after that,
>  you need one. A key is free for personal use... There's a link in the
>  extention's UI and a place to put it in the config interface.
>  
I'm not seeing that link or the place for a key.  The Settings option
opens "GNOME Shell Extension Preferences" and the Weather extension
offers options for selecting units and for what is displayed in the
panel, a place to add locations, plus an option to "debug the
extension" (which doesn't seem to indicate any errors in the logs in
~/.cache/weather-extension*.log).  I don't see a place for the URL.  The
gnome-weather application shows that it's getting its information from
the Norwegian Meteorological Institute at yr.no.  (And the gnome-weather
application has no problem updating.)

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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu

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On 04/07/2014 06:30 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>  Matthew Saltzman writes:
>  
> > I have one machine that has
> > gnome-shell-extension-weather-0-0.13.git7587e23.fc20.noarch from
> > RPMFusion installed.  When gnome-shell starts, the icon in the task bar
> > displays a circular arrow with a caution sign.  That eventually decays
> > to just the arrow.  The weather conditions never appear.  The pop-down
> > menu reports "Loading Weather", but nothing ever loads.  Clicking
> > "Reload Weather" has no effect.  This behavior occurs no matter what
> > city I select.
>  
>  That extension has been broken for a long, long time. I gave up on it a
>  while ago.
>  
>  
>   
The extension "weather" works fine:

https://extensions.gnome.org/

I've stopped using extensions from the repos and get them directly from
Gnome. It's trivial to install them from the browser.

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[Sam Varshavchik]

Matthew Saltzman writes:

>  I have one machine that has
>  gnome-shell-extension-weather-0-0.13.git7587e23.fc20.noarch from
>  RPMFusion installed.  When gnome-shell starts, the icon in the task bar
>  displays a circular arrow with a caution sign.  That eventually decays
>  to just the arrow.  The weather conditions never appear.  The pop-down
>  menu reports "Loading Weather", but nothing ever loads.  Clicking
>  "Reload Weather" has no effect.  This behavior occurs no matter what
>  city I select. 
That extension has been broken for a long, long time. I gave up on it a  
while ago.

[Matthew Miller]

yOn Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 06:54:15PM +0000, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>  I have one machine that has
>  gnome-shell-extension-weather-0-0.13.git7587e23.fc20.noarch from
>  RPMFusion installed.  When gnome-shell starts, the icon in the task bar
>  displays a circular arrow with a caution sign.  That eventually decays
>  to just the arrow.  The weather conditions never appear.  The pop-down
>  menu reports "Loading Weather", but nothing ever loads.  Clicking
>  "Reload Weather" has no effect.  This behavior occurs no matter what
>  city I select. 
I think it has something to do with the weather service used. Some number of
requests can be made without having an individual API key, but after that,
you need one. A key is free for personal use... There's a link in the
extention's UI and a place to put it in the config interface.

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