today I updated and all is perfect, thank you all!
[quote=“v3xx, post:100, topic:8435”]When first installed I had a weather forecast, now its no longer available 
[/quote]Hi @anon42388993 Maybe something similar as the update caused me a momentary pause. It had reverted to no forecast!
In /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu there’s a symbolic link named libmateweather.so.1 pointing to the file that gets updated, libmateweather.so.1.6.9 in the same directory.
I had put my hacked version and original in that same directory as:
libmateweather.so.1.6.9.hacked
libmateweather.so.1.6.9.orig
After the update,using synaptic, the link pointed to libmateweather.so.1.6.9.orig!!! Hmmmm… maybe I shouldn’t have had those extra files there to begin with.
Easily fixed, of course. But a head-scratcher why it would do that.
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After this morning’s manual update I’m happy to report
forecast is working for me - US / Virginia … Location info: Washington DC Dulles International
I’m glad I decided to wait it out after attempting to install the clock applet yesterday 
I agree. Thanks! Everything is working fine now.
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Well I have an ongoing entry in syslog that I reported July 26 which I hoped would have been remedied with the repair of the weather app. Even though there are no discernable detriments to my system I decided again to examine my syslog and found the message again today.
The message occurs when booting after full connectivity has been established:
Sep 13 10:43:55 pfeiffep-Studio-1749 org.mate.panel.applet.MateWeatherAppletFactory[4444]: ** (mateweather-applet:4669): WARNING **: Failed to get pixmap 14680513,923,0 Sep 13 10:43:55 pfeiffep-Studio-1749 org.mate.panel.applet.MateWeatherAppletFactory[4444]: ** (mateweather-applet:4669): WARNING **: Failed to get pixmap 14680545,923,0 Sep 13 10:43:55 pfeiffep-Studio-1749 org.mate.panel.applet.MateWeatherAppletFactory[4444]: ** (mateweather-applet:4669): WARNING **: Failed to get pixmap 14680548,923,0 Sep 13 10:43:55 pfeiffep-Studio-1749 org.mate.panel.applet.MateWeatherAppletFactory[4444]: ** (mateweather-applet:4669): WARNING **: Failed to get pixmap 14680561,923,0
Hi @pfeiffep I have a different message associated with updating but it goes away if I disable RADAR. It looks like this:
Sep 13 18:56:24 bill-xps org.mate.panel.applet.MateWeatherAppletFactory[3792]: (mateweather-applet:4023): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 188 was not found when attempting to remove it
That’s a single line and Source ID increments 188, 356, 550,…3451…
“pixmap” sounds like it may be an image like RADAR.
EDIT: Reading your other report looks like apples and oranges with what I’m getting so we’ll see if anyone else is sees either.
Thanks Bill,
I don’t have radar enabled. These messages appear on both my installations: HP desktop & Dell laptop.
I just booted my HP so I looked for the first indication in syslog wrt weather
org.mate.panel.applet.MateWeatherAppletFactory[4543]: (mateweather-applet:4766): MateWeather-CRITICAL **: weather_info_get_icon_name: assertion 'info != NULL' failed
There are no visual indications that there’s an issue with weather … or for that matter the clock which produced this
(clock-applet:4764): WARNING **: Failed to get pixmap 16777266,-1,-1
Backup originals, of course.
In the file:
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmateweather.so.1.6.9
Change:
“http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/forecasts/zone/%s/%s.txt”
To:
"http://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/data/forecasts/zone/%s/%s.txt "
Using sed.
Good idea, this works great!
I just escape the / with \