Alarms do not work in Evolution

[Paul Smith]

No matter where I create my alarms (either in my Personal calendar or in my Exchange calendar) I don't get any notification. In previous versions of Evolution, this worked great and I would get a dialog pop up at a preset time before the appointment (I set this to 5 minutes). Without this feature I might as well use the Open Web Access feature of Exchange; Evolution is not giving me anything extra (and it's pretty buggy in general).

I definitely do have the box asking for an alarm to be checked, both in the general preferences AND in the specific appointment. I also have my system on all the time, and running Evolution all the time, so it's not anything to do with not generating alarms that went by while the system was off. I can create an appointment to happen in a few minutes, in any of my calendars, and never get the alarm.

[Paul Smith (psmith-gnu)]

This is evolution-2.4.1-0ubuntu7 in breezy, BTW. All Breezy versions of Evo I've used have the same behavior.

[Paul Smith (psmith-gnu)]

Also, using ps I can see that /usr/lib/evolution/2.4/evolution-alarm-notify is running. It just never seems to do anything.

[Paul Smith (psmith-gnu)]

Check this thread from the Ubuntu forums:

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-93128.html

Refers to this patch, posted to the evolution-patches mailing list:

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-patches/2005-November/msg00010.html

This was apparently committed as a fix to Gnome bug # 316710

[Paul Smith (psmith-gnu)]

This is the patch that was attached to the Gnome bug, and applied to their source to fix the problem.

[Paul Smith (psmith-gnu)]

I'd dearly love to have this fixed in Breezy: to me it's a very critical bug in Evolution functionality if alarms don't work! I've read 2-3 people saying the patch fixed their problems right up and no one has complained about it... it seems solid.

Thanks!

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

According to the bug it's fixed with dapper

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

I've opened a backport task. Have you tried the patch yourself?

[Paul Smith (psmith-gnu)]

Yes, I've used the method described in the ubuntuforums to build a patched version with dpkg-rebuild and it does work: alarms show up properly.

[Marco Rodrigues (gothicx)]

Breezy support is over.. Today it's Breezy End Of Life!