Evolution

Evolution Calendar alarms are not displayed

Bug #681929 reported by Garry Leach on 2010-11-26

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Evolution	New	Unknown	debbugs #588552
	evolution (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Low	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: evolution

1. 10.10
2. Evolution 2.30.3-1ubuntu7.1
3. I expected calendar alarms to display (at the requested time), as they have with all earlier versions of Ubuntu, i.e. in a pop-up window.
4. No display of alarms.

I have just upgraded to 10.10 from 10.04.1, using a fresh install of 10.10 in a re-formatted HDD, then adding /home via a grsync back-up, & Evolution settings via Evolution backup/restore.

My usage of Evolution is simple, only using mail, contacts & calendar, as supplied, no extras, no outside systems.

My contacts were OK.

Sending & receiving mail worked OK.

Previously recorded calendar events did not work immediately, but did on my next boot, perhaps because I had checked every possible setting.

However, the alarms do not display, whereas they have with all earlier versions of Ubuntu.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: evolution 2.30.3-1ubuntu7.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.35-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Nov 27 07:50:59 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evolution
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evolution

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Garry Leach (garry-leach) wrote on 2010-11-26:

Dependencies.txt Edit (5.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (62.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (779 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XsessionErrors.txt Edit (4.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2010-11-27

Changed in evolution:
status:	Unknown → New

Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) on 2011-05-31

Changed in evolution (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Triaged
importance:	Undecided → Low

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Garry Leach (garry-leach) wrote on 2011-06-01:

I posted the following comment to #738982 on 29/05/11. It is my workaround for this problem.

Regards, Garry.

2 weeks ago, I upgraded to 11.04.

Again Calendar alarms would not work.

I checked file "/usr/lib/evolution/X.XX/evolution". It had 2.32, but
the Evolution Alarm notifier in Start-up Applications was requesting to
run file "/usr/lib/evolution/2.30/evolution", which was the value used
in 10.10, i.e. prior to the upgrade.

If I have the only installation that has this problem (presumably that
is why this bug expired), what could there be about my installation that
does not allow these 2 elements to be co-ordinated?

Regards, Garry.

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Jörg Frings-Fürst (jff-de) wrote on 2013-11-06:

Bug from 2010. Version not longer supportet.
Change status to Invalid