system load indicator auto start does not work

Hi Phillip, could you check whether creating the .config/autostart directory manually and restarting the indicator helps?

It sounds like you were speaking generically of <something>.config. Could you please specify exactly what the path should be, or do you mean it should literally be ~/.config/autostart? And it is just an empty directory?

Hi Phillip, it is literally the directory ~/.config/autostart/. There is a bug in the indicator-multiload version included in Oneiric that does not create this directory if it does not exist (as it is the case on a clean install). After restarting the indicator, an "indicator-multiload.desktop" file should be created inside the autostart directory.

Thanks, that did the trick. You want to mark this as a dup?

Thanks for testing! I think I will leave the bug open to make it easier to discover the workaround.

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Also in Precise 12.04.

Just bumped into it, as stated above, created the ~/.config/autostart dir manual and all is fine.

It happened for me after installing, not logging into Ubuntu Unity shell but first installing from command line GNOME shell, reboot and log into GNOME shell.

$ indicator-multiload
/usr/share/indicator-multiload/preferences.ui
Could not create autostart desktop file: Failed to create file '/home/****/.config/autostart/indicator-multiload.desktop.3V0QDW': No such file or directory

Correction on previous post, it could be that people try to start indicator-multiload for the first time in Unity after all.

Confirmed this occurs with clean install of Precise.

Also occurs on Quantal.

The attached patch ensures the user config directories exist. Fix copied from Rygel.
http://packages.ubuntu.com/source/quantal/rygel

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Looks good Graham. Tested and uploaded!

This bug was fixed in the package indicator-multiload - 0.2-0ubuntu2

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indicator-multiload (0.2-0ubuntu2) quantal; urgency=low

  [ Graham Inggs ]
  * Ensure user config directories exist - fixes autostart (LP: #887847).

  [ Andrew Starr-Bochicchio ]
  * debian/copyright:
   - Fix syntax error in DEP5 copyright format.
   - Update format field to point to final spec.
  * debian/control: Bump standards version to 3.9.3.
 -- Graham Inggs <email address hidden> Tue, 02 Oct 2012 13:41:19 +0200