I believe different currencies are fetched from different servers, so one of those might have been slower to respond or have returned an error the first time.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Debcrafters packages, which is subscribed to gnome-calculator in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2100300 Title: gnome-calculator not doing currency conversion Status in gnome-calculator package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in gnome-calculator source package in Jammy: New Status in gnome-calculator source package in Noble: Fix Released Bug description: [ Impact ] When trying to perform currency conversion in gnome-calculator, the values remain unchanged instead. The HTTP endpoint that gnome-calculator uses to fetch up-to-date currency conversion rates has started requiring a valid User-Agent. gnome-calculator wasn't setting any user agent, so it now fails to download the data. The patch both adds a user agent string, and changes the HTTP end- point to one hosted by GNOME (which I believe just acts as a proxy) to avoid the same class of problems in the future. [ Test Plan ] 1. Open "Calculator" 2. Select "Financial" mode from the top-center menu 3. Verify that the currency conversion section is visible 4. Select two currencies like "Euro" and "US Dollar" 5. Insert a number 6. Verify that the conversion was performed and the result is visible [ Where problems could occur ] The changes are limited to the currency conversion feature. Unintended side-effects may affect the other unit conversion options because the UI is shared. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-calculator/+bug/2100300/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~debcrafters-packages Post to : debcrafters-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~debcrafters-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
