orage endless alarm repetition

[zoltan_54356]

Problem: in Orange, if a full day event is created, with alarm, then alarm windows will keep popping in an infinite loop. After some time there will be too many windows, and X11 will become unresponsive.

Steps to reproduce:
1. create a new event in Orage
2. set the event date for the current day
3. mark the event to be full day
4. create an alarm for the event
5. wait until Orage notifications will pop up.

Expected result:
One notification should appear for the event.

Actual result:
Instead of one notifications, there will be more and more notifications, approximately 1 extra notification in each second.

Please see the related Debian bug report:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=666420

Upstream bug report:

https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8525

Theoretically the current Orage Debian package fixes this problem.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: orage 4.8.3-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-40.64-generic 3.2.40
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-40-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.2
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Apr 24 00:02:46 2013
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=hu_HU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: orage
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-09-25 (210 days ago)

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Update
Not only full day event reproduce this bug. Having troubles with other events, which marked as repeat forever (or endless repeat, I have russian locale, in russian it is "повторять бесконечно"). If option "repeat forever" off, then there is one window.

Bug fixed after delete all files like "orage_persistent_alarms.txt.*" from home/usr/.local/share/orage

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: orage 4.8.3
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-52-generic
Architecture: i386

[zoltan_54356 (zoltan-padrah)]

Tested with the .deb package from Debian (4.8.3-2), but this issues still happens.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[GRbit (grbitt)]

Fixed similar bug with infinity orage windows, when delete all files like "orage_persistent_alarms.txt.*" from home/usr/.local/share/orage

[Theo Linkspfeifer (lastonestanding)]

This was fixed long ago.