'network error in weather' wont stop coming up

[Ertepeller]

I suspect the problem is the satellite map ("Show map" in the context menu is greyed out), because the other stuff (temperature & forecast) seems to work fine.

So the "network error" might be the fact that the applet can't retrieve the map image. So what, I never look at it.

But the popup every few minutes is driving me mad Very, VERY irritating.

Solution seems obvious: disable the notification in the weather applet and my blood pressure will return to a more healthy level.

You have to edit this file: /usr/share/avant-window-navigator/applets/weather/weather.py
(The file is only writable by root, so remember to use sudo when you start your editor)

And comment out the notification call in line #240 (by putting a "#" before "self.notification.show")

Result should look like this:

    
    def network_error_cb(self, e, tb):
        if type(e) is NetworkException:
            print "Error in Weather:", e
#           self.notification.show()

Then kill the weather applet:

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ ps aux | grep weather.py
root      9559  0.0  0.2 234080 10792 pts/0    Sl+  03:33   0:00 vim weather.py
ubuntu    9630  0.0  0.8 424132 32316 ?        Sl   03:36   0:00 python /usr/share/avant-window-navigator/applets/weather/weather.py --uid=9 --window=23068717 --panel-id=1
ubuntu    9684  0.0  0.0   8956   872 pts/1    S+   04:00   0:00 grep --color=auto weather.py
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ kill 9630
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$

And restart the applet by clicking on it.

I haven't seen the obnoxious popup since. Yay!

[graphius]

Thanks, this seems to have fixed it for me as well.
I am guessing the satellite maps are no longer available, or have changed in some way that broke the applet.

[swiftsam]

I'm seeing the same error. This thread on the AWN forums seems to identify the problem. Nobody seems to have said a developer is working on a fix or anything though

http://awn.planetblur.org/index.php?...=1&isLive=true

[Gunnodayak]

Same problem here, I am a newbie in Ubuntu, and these are the kind of problems that are forcing me to keep a dual boot system (Windows 7/Ubuntu 10.04).

[Rasa1111]

Same problem here, I am a newbie in Ubuntu, and these are the kind of problems that are forcing me to keep a dual boot system (Windows 7/Ubuntu 10.04).

There are other methods of getting weather on ones desktop.
Conky and gnome-panel are 2 other methods....

Ubuntus weather apps work fine.
its AWN that has gone a lil whacky..
Not Ubuntu..

[Ertepeller]

There are other methods of getting weather on ones desktop.
Conky and gnome-panel are 2 other methods....

Ubuntus weather apps work fine.
its AWN that has gone a lil whacky..
Not Ubuntu..

But I don't use conky or gnome-panel... just AWN.

Conky is nice for showing off with screenshots, but useless for normal daily usage. Simply because you don't see it. I don't see even one pixel of the background, it's always covered with windows.

And I replaced gnome-panel with AWN, it doesn't even run. It's redundant when you have AWN running. My screen is only 900 pixels high and I don't want to waste any pixels (especially vertically) on some toolbar I don't use.

[Gunnodayak]

There are other methods of getting weather on ones desktop.
Conky and gnome-panel are 2 other methods....

Ubuntus weather apps work fine.
its AWN that has gone a lil whacky..
Not Ubuntu..

I know that there are alternatives, but I hate this thing about Ubuntu as a principle: today one thing is working, and tomorrow, for instance after some updates, it is not working anymore. I've experienced this problem in Ubuntu more than one time, this Weather issue in AWN is just one of them. The best thing in all the bad ones is that there's a strong and helpful community around here and I really appreciate that from Ubuntu experienced users.
I am really hoping that Ubuntu and the software for Ubuntu will get better in time (and more than better, more casual user friendly), because I really want to get rid of Windows completely.

[Rasa1111]

But I don't use conky or gnome-panel... just AWN.

Conky is nice for showing off with screenshots, but useless for normal daily usage. Simply because you don't see it. I don't see even one pixel of the background, it's always covered with windows.

And I replaced gnome-panel with AWN, it doesn't even run. It's redundant when you have AWN running. My screen is only 900 pixels high and I don't want to waste any pixels (especially vertically) on some toolbar I don't use.

Gotcha.

I do use (look at) my conky quite often though.
on a 'normal,daily' basis.
and find it quite useful.

Least you got your AWN fixed now though, yea?

[Rasa1111]

I know that there are alternatives, but I hate this thing about Ubuntu as a principle: today one thing is working, and tomorrow, for instance after some updates, it is not working anymore. I've experienced this problem in Ubuntu more than one time, this Weather issue in AWN is just one of them. The best thing in all the bad ones is that there's a strong and helpful community around here and I really appreciate that from Ubuntu experienced users.
I am really hoping that Ubuntu and the software for Ubuntu will get better in time (and more than better, more casual user friendly), because I really want to get rid of Windows completely.

I understand.

but honestly..
I experienced these same kinds of thing when i used to use windows also.

and really..
Ive had far less issues with Ubuntu in the year Ive been using it, than I ever had with windows in a year. lol

I think you will be able to ditch windows soon enough.

[Ertepeller]

Gotcha.

I do use (look at) my conky quite often though.
on a 'normal,daily' basis.
and find it quite useful.

Least you got your AWN fixed now though, yea?

I should have said "MY normal daily usage", because it's just an opinion of course.

I did use conky in the past, spent hours and hours to come up with the ultimate conkyrc (for me), but after that... I actually almost never looked at it

So I don't bother install it anymore. The few times I want to know what's eating cpu cycles or filling up memory I fire up Gnome System Monitor which shows everything I want to know in great detail (more than conky in fact).

Well at least conky was fun to play with, learned a few useful things from it and one more package under my belt I'd say.