evolution calendars disappeared

[Carl-Erik Kopseng]

Binary package hint: evolution

And as I turned on the computer this morning the appointments in my calendar would not show!
Quitting evolution, restarting a couple of times, suddenly made it work. I then exported my calendars (just in case), and every time after that they would not show!

This may be a problem that stems from an application outside of evolution!
Last night I installed
opensync
opensync-plugin-evolution
multisync
libmultisync-plugin-evolution

BUT removing all of these made no difference.

This is the output from the commandline, after starting up evolution, pressing one of the calendars and pressing "Save to disk".
The
#evolution
CalDAV Eplugin starting up ...
Loading Spamassasin as the default junk plugin
** (evolution:8014): DEBUG: mailto URL command: evolution %s
** (evolution:8014): DEBUG: mailto URL program: evolution
(evolution:8014): e-data-server-DEBUG: Loading categories from "/home/carl-erik/.evolution/categories.xml"
(evolution:8014): e-data-server-DEBUG: Loaded 22 categories
(evolution:8014): libecal-CRITICAL **: file e-cal.c: line 1612: assertion `ecal != NULL' failed
(evolution:8014): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance
(evolution:8014): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_emit_valist: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed
(evolution:8014): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

evolution --version : 2.12.0
ubuntu gutsy beta

[Carl-Erik Kopseng (kopseng)]

At first it would just show a blank calendar. Now it shows nothing!
Ctrl-N shows a pop-up that says sth like :
"No calendar availabe for setting up meetings and appointments" (it's a Norwegian locale, thus no exact translation)

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for your report, If you remove that packages you installed and try to reproduce the bug with a new user what happens? Probably your evolution is broken because of the installation of that packages.

[Carl-Erik Kopseng (kopseng)]

After running apt-get update + apt-get upgrade things suddenly worked again... (?).
Sorry for posting a useless bug report. I just freaked a bit out when 6 months of appointments suddenly vanished.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Closing the bug then, feel free to reopen if you get the issue again though

[Carl-Erik Kopseng (kopseng)]

The problem arised once again. None of the calendars are showing.

[Carl-Erik Kopseng (kopseng)]

Was supposed to enclose multiple files in the last comment, but just got one file uploaded, so the subject line was wrong.

The previous output (after.logout.txt) just came once, after restarting the machine and logging in again, to see if that bettered things. Got heaps of error messages say this and that panel applet could not start (at login), and then this output came. Did not happen again.

The file I am enclosing now is the "normal" output when I start Evolution and try to save one of the (empty) calendars.

[Carl-Erik Kopseng (kopseng)]

Here is the screen dump that goes along with the last file (evolution.bug.report.txt).
I get the error when right clicking one of the calendars in the left pane, and trying to save it.

[Carl-Erik Kopseng (kopseng)]

the calendar appointments mysteriously reappears. Too late this time - evolutions calendar program is way too buggy to be put to use for anything but as a testing/debugging case. It's Google Calendar from now on. But if anyone is willing to look at the bug in the future I have posted all the info I could think of that was relevant. Error output and screen shots in the comments above.

[Iulian Udrea (iulian)]

Thank you for your bug report. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Can you try to reproduce with the latest version of Evolution, 2.21.90?

Thank you.

[Carl-Erik Kopseng (kopseng)]

Sorry, the latest version available for Ubuntu is 2.12.1, and having gone through the time-consuming process of compiling evolution from scratch earlier, I don't really feel like doing it again, since I am not using it anymore. (Yes, because of this bug). Thunderbird+Lightning+Google Calender plugin serves my needs these days.

I am already a bit stretched on time as it is, but I will look into it again with Ubuntu 8.04, or if there is a prebuilt package somewhere.

[Joel Jackson (joel-j)]

Iulian Udrea wrote:
> Thank you for your bug report. You reported this bug a while ago and
> there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this
> still an issue for you? Can you try to reproduce with the latest version
> of Evolution, 2.21.90?
>
> Thank you.
>
> ** Changed in: evolution (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
>
it's no longer an issue because i don't trust evolution and quit using it

[Iulian Udrea (iulian)]

Thank you for the information. I will close this bug report. Please reopen it if you still have this issue with the latest version.