Clicking on Date and Time widget in wingpanel crashes wingpanel

[hanleyc01]

What Happened?

Hey there!

I'm just getting into Linux, and this is my first install and I'm absolutely loving it!

Only problem so far I've noticed that makes things difficult is clicking on the Date and Time widget on the top wingpanel seems to completely crash the whole wingpanel - though after a while it seems to continue to respond?

Steps to Reproduce

It's a little hard to reproduce, it seems I need to have a completely fresh powering on and off again to reproduce the issue. Aside from that it's very simple.

1. Click on date and time.
2. Dialog box that says "wingpanel has stopped responding" and options "force quit" or "wait", I selected "wait" and it seems to heal itself, but it is a little devious in that it does completely stop responding for a while (so no clicking settings buttons or any other widgets on the bar!), which at first made me panic and completely power off and on my computer!

Expected Behavior

Ideally, I think that it ought to not crash haha, but of course it's a whole OS so things are complicated!!

OS Version

6.x (Odin)

Software Version

Latest release (I have run all updates)

Log Output

No response

Hardware Info

Here's a sc from my hardware displayed in system settings.

[hanleyc01]

Ohp! I didn't look down far enough, it seems there's a similar issue below from 2019 or so. Should I close this one?

[jeremypw]

Hmm, a bug that old should probably be confirmed on the current version so I would leave this open for now. Do you have any remote calendars set up? The old issue mentioned these as a possible cause. I have never seen this bug but only have local calendars. Does this bug occur if you wait a while after logging in?

You can get further information as follows:

1. Open up a terminal
2. Enter sudo killall io.elementary.wingpanel twice in quick succession (within about 30 seconds). This will stop the wingpanel respawning if it crashes.
3. Start the wingpanel from the terminal by entering io.elementary.wingpanel. Now any error messages produced by the wingpanel will appear in the terminal.
4. Try and reproduce the bug and post any output in the terminal here.
5. Do not close the terminal - just log out and log back in again to have the wingpanel run as normal.

Glad you are enjoying Linux!

[hanleyc01]

I'm so sorry, I wanted to play around with it like you said to try and reproduce the issue and absentmindedly deleted a calendar I had linked. I do have a Google calendar linked, but on a fresh restart that doesn't seem to be the problem - I think it might've been an attempt at linking my Mac's iCalendar, but I can't be sure :|

That being said, I haven't had a problem with crashes since then. I'll play around with it more to see if I can actually recreate the problem calendar so I can actually provide helpful info!!

Btw, tysm, this all being said I've been absolutely loving elementaryOS so far :))