Bug#535110: gnome-applets: weather report preferences are all greyed out

[Gary Koskenmaki]

Package: gnome-applets
Version: 2.24.3.1-2+b1
Severity: important

I just installed the weather report applet after a period of not using it.  Now all available options under Preferences are greyed out.  I'm not allowed to change any of them, and the applet defaults to displaying the weather 
for Pittsburg,PA.  Since I live on the West Coast that's not real useful to me. It also does not update automatically.  Whatever it displays for the weather icon and temperature when the applet is started is then displayed until 
I manually run Update, whether that time period be a matter of hours or days.  

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-2-686-bigmem (SMP w/3 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-applets depends on:
ii  gconf2       2.26.2-1                    GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gnome-applet 2.24.3.1-2                  Various applets for GNOME 2 panel 
ii  gnome-icon-t 2.26.0-1                    GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  gnome-panel  2.24.3-1+b1                 launcher and docking facility for 
ii  gstreamer0.1 0.10.23-3                   GStreamer plugin for ALSA
ii  gstreamer0.1 0.10.13-1                   GStreamer plugins from the "bad" s
ii  gstreamer0.1 0.10.15-2                   GStreamer plugins from the "good" 
ii  gvfs         1.2.2-2                     userspace virtual filesystem - ser
ii  libapm1      3.2.2-13                    Library for interacting with APM d
ii  libatk1.0-0  1.26.0-1                    The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonoboui2 2.24.1-1                    The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6        2.9-12                      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcpufreq0  005-1                       shared library to deal with the cp
ii  libdbus-1-3  1.2.12-1                    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib 0.80-4                      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgconf2-4  2.26.2-1                    GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0 2.20.1-2                    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-des 2.26.1-1                    Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome2-0  2.26.0-1                    The GNOME library - runtime files
ii  libgnomekbd3 2.24.0-3                    GNOME library to manage keyboard c
ii  libgnomeui-0 2.24.1-1                    The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgstreamer 0.10.23-3                   GStreamer libraries from the "base
ii  libgstreamer 0.10.23-2                   Core GStreamer libraries and eleme
ii  libgtk2.0-0  2.16.1-2                    The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libgtop2-7   2.26.1-1                    gtop system monitoring library
ii  libgucharmap 1:2.24.3-1                  Unicode browser widget library (sh
ii  libgweather1 2.26.1-1                    GWeather shared library
ii  libhal1      0.5.12~git20090406.46dc48-2 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libnotify1 [ 0.4.5-1                     sends desktop notifications to a n
ii  liboobs-1-4  2.22.0-2                    GObject based interface to system-
ii  libpanel-app 2.24.3-1+b1                 library for GNOME Panel applets
ii  libpango1.0- 1.24.0-3+b1                 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpolkit-db 0.9-3                       library for accessing PolicyKit vi
ii  libpolkit2   0.9-3                       library for accessing PolicyKit
ii  libwnck22    2.26.1-1                    Window Navigator Construction Kit 
ii  libx11-6     2:1.2.1-1                   X11 client-side library
ii  libxklavier1 3.9-1                       X Keyboard Extension high-level AP
ii  libxml2      2.7.3.dfsg-1                GNOME XML library
ii  python       2.5.4-2                     An interactive high-level object-o

Versions of packages gnome-applets recommends:
ii  cpufrequtils                 005-1       utilities to deal with the cpufreq
ii  deskbar-applet               2.24.3-1+b2 universal search and navigation ba
ii  gnome-media                  2.26.0-1    GNOME media utilities
ii  gnome-netstatus-applet       2.12.2-1    Network status applet for GNOME 2
ii  gnome-system-monitor         2.24.4-1    Process viewer and system resource
ii  policykit-gnome              0.9.2-2     GNOME dialogs for PolicyKit
ii  python-gnome2                2.26.1-1    Python bindings for the GNOME desk

Versions of packages gnome-applets suggests:
ii  acpid                    1.0.10-2        Utilities for using ACPI power man
ii  gnote [tomboy]           0.4.0-3~bpo50+1 desktop note taking program using 

-- debconf information:
  gnome-applets/cpufreq_SUID_bit: false