Are you sure this happens after the service crashed? If so, this is a bug in unity8 (or more likely qmenumodel), which should respawn the service. Alternatively, it should not show the messaging menu at all when the service is down.
Ted, we can respawn without upstart as well. That's what we're doing in libindicator. I'm asking because this could also be the bug that didn't clear the "blue" status after dismissing messages, which I've just fixed in lp:~larsu/indicator-messages/blue. ** Changed in: indicator-messages (Ubuntu) Assignee: Charles Kerr (charlesk) => Lars Uebernickel (larsu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1234680 Title: indicator-messages blue even though there are no messages To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-messages/+bug/1234680/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs