Comment 2 for bug 1088706

Good morning Izidor!

I was using the daily PPA, encountered the bug, purged gtg and liblarch,
then installed the stable ppa. When I still encountered the bug running
the stable, I submitted the report.

I don't have a tag starting with a '!', but I do have a tag that was
created by error containing a '!'. I believe the gtg tag editor changed
syntax from dividing tags using a ',' to dividing using a space. When
attempting to create and delete tags simultaneously I ended up with
'newtag,!tagtoremove' . This was while running the daily. I've
attached my tags.xml file (no sensitive data) if you would like to take
a look.

I deleted the tag containing '!' from tags.xml and the gtg data file and
now it fires up. Whew - what a relief! Thanks for all of the great
development work and for the quick response on this bug. I depend on
gtg every day. I'm going to stick with the stable ppa to avoid losing
the functionality in the future.

D

12/10/2012 08:57 PM, Izidor Matušov wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> you found a very interesting bug -- in code that wasn't changed for 1.5
> years. I will fix it shortly.
>
> I am very interested how it happened. The reason why you can't start GTG
> is because one of your tags starts with '!'. GTG itself should have
> prevented that situation. Did you create a tag like that? Maybe a search
> tag? You can look at your ~/.local/share/gtg/tags.xml
>
> If you don't use our GTG Daily PPA (development version), the workaround
> is to delete that '!' from the name of your tags.
>
> ** Changed in: gtg
> Status: New => In Progress
>
> ** Changed in: gtg
> Importance: Undecided => High
>
> ** Changed in: gtg
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Izidor Matušov (izidor)
>
> ** Changed in: gtg
> Milestone: None => 0.3.1
>
> ** Tags added: liblarch
>

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