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Bug 558493 - Evolution: Reminders for Appointments due when the computer is turned off are lost / never shown.
Evolution: Reminders for Appointments due when the computer is turned off are...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Calendar
2.22.x (obsolete)
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: evolution-calendar-maintainers
Evolution QA team
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-10-30 05:31 UTC by Nick Jenkins
Modified: 2009-04-21 00:34 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.21/2.22

Attachments
Screenshot of the appointment in question. (40.94 KB, image/png)
2008-10-30 05:33 UTC, Nick Jenkins 		Details

Description Nick Jenkins 2008-10-30 05:31:33 UTC 
Please describe the problem:
Reminders for Appointments due when the computer is turned off are lost / never shown.

Running on Evolution 2.22.3.1 on Ubuntu 8.04.1.

Steps to reproduce:
1) Make a test appointment in the local evolution calendar, which starts at 11 PM. I verify that it has an alarm set, because I definitely want a reminder, because I can see the alarm-bell symbol in the calendar view.
2) Shut down the computer prior to 11 PM.
3) Turn computer on in the morning the next day, and start Evolution.
4) Do not get a reminder about the 11 PM appointment. Nada, zip, nothing. The reminder is lost, destroyed, gone, vanished.

Actual results:
No reminder is shown.

Expected results:
Get a reminder. I asked for a reminder/alarm, so I should get one, at the first available opportunity at or after 11 PM (i.e. when launching Evolution the next day).

Does this happen every time?
I'm presuming so, as there was nothing unusual about this test. Alarms that happen when the computer is on work fine, but when I started missing appointments, I wanted to trace the causes. This appears to be part of the problem, but when combined with bug 558354, bug 558363, and bug 558366, it means that reminders are basically completely broken.

Other information:
Comment 1 Nick Jenkins 2008-10-30 05:33:09 UTC 
Created attachment 121622 [details]
Screenshot of the appointment in question.

Note that this appointment has an alarm/reminder, but that no alarm/reminder appeared the next day.
Comment 2 Nick Jenkins 2009-04-21 00:34:13 UTC 
Since upgrading from 2.22 to 2.24.3, I don't think that this is happening any more. I.e. appointments that are due when the computer is off, now appear for me when it is next turned on. So appears to have been resolved somewhere between 2.22 and 2.24.3. I will now mark this as resolved and close it.