[Solved] Xfce 4.4.3-1 battery monitor problem

Question

Today I did a "pacman -Syu" as I regularly do and there were a few updates, including a Xfce one so I decided to let it install the updates.
The problem is that the Battery Monitor plugin no longer works (it's very handy if you use a laptop like I do).
There is an error message if I d:
$ dmesg | tail
usb 3-1: new low speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2
usb 3-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev
input: Logitech Optical USB Mouse as /class/input/input10
input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech Optical USB Mouse] on usb-0000:00:03.1-1
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
usbhid: v2.6:USB HID core driver
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1
ACPI: EC: GPE storm detected, disabling EC GPE
xfce4-battery-p[8258]: segfault at 46 ip b76abb7d sp bfb7e878 error 4 in libc-2.8.so[b7650000+13c000]
and also another on the output of X (I guess thats it), I have done startx &> x.log and there is this:
(xfce4-panel:7376): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_socket_get_id: assertion `GTK_WIDGET_ANCHORED (socket)' failed
** (xfce4-panel:7376): CRITICAL **: An item was unexpectedly removed: "Battery Monitor".
Is it just a problem on my machine or is it a general problem? If it is just a problem on my machine any suggestions on how can I fix it?
Thanks in advance.
Last edited by R00KIE (2008-11-01 12:56:24)

Answer 1

Ok, the version on the Xfce page seemed to be the same I had on my system but I decided to download and compile it anyway and then I did a diff on the file I had on the system and the compiled one and they were different.
Then I went to AUR and searched for some makepkg script and I found one for an older (??) version of the plugin and I modified it.
The I decided to give it a try and I have the battery plugin working again
Here's what you need
File: PKGBUILD
pkgname=xfce4-battery-plugin
pkgver=0.5.1
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="A battery applet for the Xfce4"
arch=(i686 x86_64)
license=('GPL2')
url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/battery-4-xfce4/"
groups=('xfce4-goodies')
depends=('libxfce4util' 'libxfcegui4' 'gtk2' 'xfce4-panel' 'dbus' 'libnotify')
makedepends=('pkgconfig')
options=('!libtool')
install=${pkgname}.install
source=(http://goodies.xfce.org/releases/xfce4-battery-plugin/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.bz2)
md5sums=('d8a666d85bb3c1dd007b547de4dd7037')
build() {
cd ${startdir}/src/${pkgname}-${pkgver}
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --libexecdir=/usr/lib/xfce4 \
--localstatedir=/var --disable-static
make || return 1
make DESTDIR=${startdir}/pkg install
File: xfce4-battery-plugin.install
post_install() {
gtk-update-icon-cache -q -t -f usr/share/icons/hicolor
post_upgrade() {
post_install $1
post_remove() {
gtk-update-icon-cache -q -t -f usr/share/icons/hicolor
op=$1
shift
$op $*
After you have both files issue a makepkg (in the directory where you have both files of course). If all goes well then just issue
sudo pacman -U xfce4-battery-plugin-0.5.1-1-i686.pkg.tar
then logout and login again, the plugin should work again.
If it fails before compiling check what it complains about, in my case I had to install perl-xml-xpath (use sudo pacman -S perl-xml-xpath).