App won't start on desktop

[Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄]

Running calendar from the core apps ppa or from trunk, the app doesn't actually appear. It starts, but nothing appears.

alan@deep-thought:~/phablet/code/coreapps/ubuntu-calendar-app$ qmlscene /usr/share/calendar-app/calendar.qml
unity::action::ActionManager::ActionManager(QObject*):
        Could not determine application identifier. HUD will not work properly.
        Provide your application identifier in $APP_ID environment variable.
file:///usr/share/calendar-app/calendar.qml:90: TypeError: Cannot call method 'isSameDay' of undefined
virtual QString QOrganizerEDSFactory::managerName() const
virtual QtOrganizer::QOrganizerManagerEngine* QOrganizerEDSFactory::engine(const QMap<QString, QString>&, QtOrganizer::QOrganizerManager::Error*) eds

** (qmlscene:10056): WARNING **: Unable to register app: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.InvalidArgs: Invalid application ID

(qmlscene:10056): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_ref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

(qmlscene:10056): libecal-CRITICAL **: e_cal_client_get_view: assertion 'E_IS_CAL_CLIENT (client)' failed

[Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey)]

Getting same on clock app:-

alan@deep-thought:~/phablet/code/coreapps/ubuntu-clock-app$ qmlscene ubuntu-clock-app.qml
unity::action::ActionManager::ActionManager(QObject*):
        Could not determine application identifier. HUD will not work properly.
        Provide your application identifier in $APP_ID environment variable.
virtual QString QOrganizerEDSFactory::managerName() const
virtual QtOrganizer::QOrganizerManagerEngine* QOrganizerEDSFactory::engine(const QMap<QString, QString>&, QtOrganizer::QOrganizerManager::Error*) eds

** (qmlscene:24211): WARNING **: Unable to register app: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.InvalidArgs: Invalid application ID

(qmlscene:24211): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_ref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

(qmlscene:24211): libecal-CRITICAL **: e_cal_client_get_view: assertion 'E_IS_CAL_CLIENT (client)' failed

[Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey)]

Further to this if I disable my canonical google account eds calendar sync in online accounts, the app starts immediately. I have removed the canonical google account and re-added it, and now the app starts but very slowly.

If I only have one account (my personal) active then the app starts quickly and I see (the very few I have) events.
With my canonical account active the app takes a very long time to start and no longer shows events.

Perhaps some timeout in EDS?

[Nekhelesh Ramananthan (nik90)]

@Alan, the lag that you notice in the start up, does it apply to both the clock and calendar? or just calendar? I believe that the clock app alarms are being stored in a different database. So calendar events shouldn't technically affect clock start up.

[brian larochelle (larochelle-brian)]

@alan
do you have a rough idea how many events are in your canonical google account?

-would it be possible to export and 'sanitize' your data to share, or better create similar dummy data?
if i could reproduce it, i would try to find the cause and fix.

[brian larochelle (larochelle-brian)]

possibly related to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-calendar-app/+bug/1164727

[Christopher Kyle Horton (christhehorton)]

I can't start the clock app on my Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 64-bit install on my laptop under the regular desktop, either. Similar output to comment #1:

christopher@christopher-LIFEBOOK-T900:~$ ubuntu-clock-app
unity::action::ActionManager::ActionManager(QObject*):
 Could not determine application identifier. HUD will not work properly.
 Provide your application identifier in $APP_ID environment variable.

** (qmlscene:3187): WARNING **: Unable to register app: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.InvalidArgs: Invalid application ID
Fail to connect with client Unable to connect to 'Calendar': Cannot open calendar: Timeout was reached

(qmlscene:3187): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_ref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

(qmlscene:3187): libecal-CRITICAL **: e_cal_client_get_view: assertion 'E_IS_CAL_CLIENT (client)' failed

[Alexander Langanke (alexlanganke)]

Affects the music App as well

[Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey)]

Hm, music-app starts here on a fairly clean install of Ubuntu. What are you seeing Alexander?

[Victor Thompson (vthompson)]

This shouldn't affect the Music app. The problems here appear to be EDS related.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for Ubuntu Clock App because there has been no activity for 60 days.]