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[Tsu Jan <657803@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The crash report doesn't seem useful:

Cairo-Dock has crashed (sig 6).
It will be restarted now (cairo-dock -o).
Feel free to report this bug on glx-dock.org to help improving the dock !
info on the system :
Linux debian 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem #1 SMP Sat Sep 18 02:52:26 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
Couldn't guess if it was an applet's fault or not. It may have crashed inside the core or inside a thread

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Weather Applet and High CPU Usage
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/657803
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Bug description:
This bug is somehow odd but I try to explain it as clearly as possible. I use my whole band-width for some download, for example, when downloading heavy files with Synaptic. Then I intentionally middle click on the weather applet to see what happens. Of course, it can't get any information and its icon changes because my whole band-width is used by Synaptic or another heavy download process. But, after a few seconds, something bad happens: one of my CPU cores goes to 100%. I can't quit Cairo-Dock normally but can kill its process and then, CPU usage gets normal again.

When I don't middle click on the weather applet, sometimes the same thing happens and sometimes Cairo-Dock crashes and automatically restarts.

In the case of 100% CPU usage, I see no message in xsession-errors except normal messages related to the weather and mail applets, which say that they cannot retrieve information. In the case of crash and restart, I don't clearly remember the messages but I think they said that the culprit might be the weather applet.

I see this problem only after the recent changes in the weather applet of the bazaar releases (5th Oct). However, I'm not sure that it's the main cause.