[SOLVED] xfce4-weather-plugin: No Data

maschelsea · 02-05-2019, 06:28 PM

I'm experiencing the (not so) dreaded No Data problem in my xfce4-weather-plugin. So far, I have tried to completely uninstall the package, and reinstall it. I have been wrestling all day with advice from an older thread (from 2014) which involves building it from scratch. This has led to a plethora of dependency issues. I am frankly tired of it. I just want my weather plugin back! Thank you in advance to anyone who can give me advice on this issue.

garpu · 02-05-2019, 08:50 PM

Are you on 14.2? I've got 0.8.10, and it's working for me. It took a minute or so to pull data, but it's working, at least.

Although in the details tab, I noticed this message:

"Downloads
Weather data:
Last: 2019-02-05 21:48:02
Next: 2019-02-05 22:48:02
Current failed attempts: 0

Astronomical data:
Last: 2019-02-05 21:48:02
Next: 2019-02-06 21:48:02
Current failed attempts: 0

Met.no sunrise API states that this version of the webservice
is deprecated, and the plugin needs to be adapted to use
a newer version, or it will stop working within a few months.
Please file a bug on https://bugzilla.xfce.org if no one
else has done so yet."

maschelsea · 02-06-2019, 09:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by garpu

Are you on 14.2? I've got 0.8.10, and it's working for me. It took a minute or so to pull data, but it's working, at least.

Although in the details tab, I noticed this message:

"Downloads
Weather data:
Last: 2019-02-05 21:48:02
Next: 2019-02-05 22:48:02
Current failed attempts: 0

Astronomical data:
Last: 2019-02-05 21:48:02
Next: 2019-02-06 21:48:02
Current failed attempts: 0

Met.no sunrise API states that this version of the webservice
is deprecated, and the plugin needs to be adapted to use
a newer version, or it will stop working within a few months.
Please file a bug on https://bugzilla.xfce.org if no one
else has done so yet."

Thank you for helping me. It never occurred to me to check what location was set in the applet. This cinched it for me. Where, pray tell, are the logs for xfce4 stored? They're NOT in /var/log/messages. I looked there.

garpu · 02-06-2019, 03:26 PM

If you left click on it, it should pull up a weather report. One tab is Forecast, and the other is Details, and the issue I found is in there.

Gordie · 02-06-2019, 04:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by garpu

Are you on 14.2? I've got 0.8.10, and it's working for me. It took a minute or so to pull data, but it's working, at least.

Although in the details tab, I noticed this message:

"Downloads
Weather data:
Last: 2019-02-05 21:48:02
Next: 2019-02-05 22:48:02
Current failed attempts: 0

Astronomical data:
Last: 2019-02-05 21:48:02
Next: 2019-02-06 21:48:02
Current failed attempts: 0

Met.no sunrise API states that this version of the webservice
is deprecated, and the plugin needs to be adapted to use
a newer version, or it will stop working within a few months.
Please file a bug on https://bugzilla.xfce.org if no one
else has done so yet."

My weather widget was working properly but because of this thread I looked at details and found this very same information. So I changed Location name for my weather reports and then changed back again and all was now well. Then I looked in

Code:

~./config/xfce4/panel/

and found more than one weather-xx.rc so I deleted them both and the weather is now working like it should. A new weather-14.rc was made automagically for the one location I am using

gadb · 02-09-2021, 01:06 AM

"Where, pray tell, are the logs for xfce4 stored? They're NOT in /var/log/messages. I looked there."

You can find this out like so:
> ps -ef | grep weather
xxx
> ls -al /proc/xxx/fd
total 0
dr-x------ 2 durk durk 0 Feb 9 06:50 .
dr-xr-xr-x 9 durk durk 0 Feb 9 06:50 ..
...
l-wx------ 1 durk durk 64 Feb 9 06:50 2 -> /home/durk/.xsession-errors
...

i.e. for me, logs go in .xsession-errors