Public bug reported: The 0.8.6 xfce4-weather-plugin included in Xubuntu 16.04 (and the 0.8.5 version in Linux Mint) expect to retrieve weather data from a server using a weather API v 1.2. The servers used for download have sunset the 1.2 API and now require 1.3. This causes the download to fail with an HTTP 404 and the app to display some variant of "Currently no data available".
Specific failure data: weather-Message: getting http://api.yr.no/weatherapi/locationforecastlts/1.2/?lat=[...] (wrapper-1.0:16241): weather-WARNING **: Download of astronomical data failed with HTTP Status Code 404, Reason phrase: Not Found Note the "1.2" in the URL; swapping in "1.3" successfully retrieves data. It looks like the problem would probably be fixed by applying the following commit from Feb 2017, just prior to the release of xfce- weather-plugin 0.8.9. At least one user has reported that 0.8.9 continues to work. https://git.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-weather- plugin/commit/?id=e3f53da02a6c4918c0436a8a459f81f1c9eac131 ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: xfce4-weather-plugin 0.8.6-1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-77.98-generic 4.4.59 Uname: Linux 4.4.0-77-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.5 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: XFCE Date: Sat May 20 18:44:15 2017 InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-02-28 (812 days ago) InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Release amd64 (20141022.1) SourcePackage: xfce4-weather-plugin UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-07-03 (321 days ago) ** Affects: xfce4-weather-plugin (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug xenial -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1692270 Title: Unable to download weather data (URL changed) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xfce4-weather-plugin/+bug/1692270/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
