Dash-to-panel: Error loading extension after lock screen

[spacejack]

With the latest release, when the screen is locked (eg after locking it manually or after the normal idle time) and then unlocked, dash-to-panel fails to load.

I'm running Ubuntu 18.04.

Not sure how to provide more details... I don't know where the error log might be.

[niabot]

I have the same issue under Ubuntu 17.10. All i have is the following error in my syslog:

Jun 12 17:43:52 bryllfrosch gnome-shell[17834]: JS ERROR: Exception in callback for signal: extension-state-changed: TypeError: ubuntuDock.stateObj is undefined#012_enable@/home/miku/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]/extension.js:59:1#012_emit@resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/signals.js:126:27#012loadExtension@resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/extensionSystem.js:177:5#012callback@resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/extensionDownloader.js:249:17#012gotExtensionZipFile/<@resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/extensionDownloader.js:105:13

[niabot]

Since the output mentioned the Ubuntu Dock extension - and it is somehow related to the issue - i simply uninstalled it with:

sudo apt-get remove gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock

After login Dash to Panel is working again.

[maedox]

Had the same issue on 18.04. Can confirm that removing gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock seems to help.

[charlesg99]

Yes sorry about that, this issue was fixed after V14 came out... If you don't mind updating to the latest master, it should resolve the issue. Thanks.

[brianfreytag]

@charlesg99 when is V15 going to come out on extensions.gnome.org? I prefer to update through that route.

[jderose9]

If there's a critical bug fix we can release to e.g.o. now, though they are pretty slow to release updates. Are we good to do that, @charlesg99 ?

[charlesg99]

I'm not sure if everybody on ubuntu is experiencing this issue (I think we would have gotten more reports and I can't reproduce it), but it might justify a release. I think we are good on that front, the only thing that moved since v14 is the clock location, so nothing majorly untested :) Thanks!

[brianfreytag]

@charlesg99 in re to "not sure if everybody on ubuntu is experiencing this issue" I'm wondering if there's a difference between people who upgraded to 18.04 vs those who installed clean?

Please let us know when this is released so we can upgrade. Thanks!

[lgazo]

I experience the same problem. I have upgraded to 18.04. I am not sure if it is wise to remove gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock because it wants to remove also ubuntu-desktop and ubuntu-gnome-desktop along. So if there is another way, like for example fixed version of the extension, I would prefer that :-)

[fishears]

I'm affected by this also. Upgraded to 18.04 from 17.10

[brianfreytag]

Can we please get a v15 release of this with the fix on Gnome Extensions please @charlesg99, @jderose9 ??

[jderose9]

It has been submitted already, but is waiting in the review queue to be approved by one of the GNOME reviewers.

https://extensions.gnome.org/review/

[brianfreytag]

Oh, thanks. Sorry, I didn't know this page existed to check to see if it was there.

[brianfreytag]

v15 was reviewed and published on gnome extensions. I've updated and it appears to have fixed the issue.

[spacejack]

Thanks so much for publishing the update!
I had removed gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock to get around the problem earlier, is this something I should reinstall?

[jderose9]

@spacejack I think the only benefit to re-installing it is if you ever wanted to go back to the stock ubuntu behavior (with the ubuntu dock on the left side).