Xfce Weather Plugin crashes on new Tumbleweed installation

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I have installed Tumbleweed anew on a new SSD, installed Xfce desktop.

The Xfce Weather Plugin keeps crashing/quitting when I click it to display the Weather Report. After two crashes/quits, Xfce displays the following:

Screenshot_2026-01-23_18-04-59
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I have uninstalled it and reinstalled it, xfce4-weather-plugin-lang, as well as xfce4-panel itself, with the same result, it continues to crash/quit.

Is there a way of finding out why it is crashing/quitting? The version installed is 0.12.0.

I have created a second account on this system and the plugin acted the same, so it does not appear to be a profile issue.

Bug report submitted: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1257185

Thank you in advance.

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Also submitted report upstream:

I do not know if the issue is with the openSUSE packaging, or the plugin itself.

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Hi, latest tumbleweed dup this morning here and the weather plugin is still working.

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If I leave it alone and do not click it for the Weather Report, it’s stable.

Once it’s clicked, that’s when it crashes/quits/restarts.

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Good you reported it. It is acting normal here.

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I installed the debug package for the plugin and ran libweather.so through gdb. It reported a segfault, but the openSUSE page on gdb indicates it would save a file gdb.txt to the same directory it was run from, but that file did not save.

One of the Xfce devs wants a backtrace. This is what gdb displayed:

gdb /usr/lib64/xfce4/panel/plugins/libweather.so
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Reading symbols from /usr/lib64/xfce4/panel/plugins/libweather.so...
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/usr/lib64/xfce4/panel/plugins/libweather.so.debug...
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/lib64/xfce4/panel/plugins/libweather.so
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Downloading 43.45 K separate debug info for system-supplied DSO at 0x7ffff7fbb000
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00007ffff7fbd000 in ?? ()
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The Xfce dev provided different instructions and I was able to generate a backtrace, which I copied and saved to a text file.

In the middle of the output, it indiicated there was an ‘illegal instruction’.

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The openSUSE bug report, now contains the larger backtrace.

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Given the number of crashes I saw when I ran coredumpctl list, it appears when Xfce is loading in after login, that is when the plugin is crashing and restarting, likely from that illegal instruction, but because it crashes/restarts once at login, I do not see the image I posted above, that only appears on the second crash/restart.

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I’ve updated the openSUSE bug report with a more complete report from gdb. One debug package it was looking for, was not in the repository though.