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Bug 582628 - Evolution sometimes does not display contact birthdays
Evolution sometimes does not display contact birthdays
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 360517
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Calendar
2.26.x (obsolete)
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: evolution-calendar-maintainers
Evolution QA team
: 587745 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-05-14 15:17 UTC by Claudio Miranda
Modified: 2009-07-20 14:02 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.25/2.26



Description Claudio Miranda 2009-05-14 15:17:12 UTC
Please describe the problem:
Hi!
There's an issue in Evolution 2.26.1, Ubuntu 9.04 that I cannot tell how to reproduce because it seems to me that there's no obvious action that triggers it. So, I'll try to show the scenario.

Steps:
1. I have a contact with a birthday date registered. His/her birthday date are or are not repeated in other contact, this does not affect wheater the bug happens or not.
2. I select the calendar view in that day/month I can see his anniversary, with age. Fine.
3. I do something that I really don't know, between last step and the next one, what that triggers the bug.
3.1. Suddenly, at the same day I'm using Evolution, or other day, that anniversary entry does is not being displayed anymore.
3.2. So, I go to edit the contact entry and just change a letter of a word in the note field, let's say. Then I save this entry.
3.3. Then, when I select the calendar view in that day/month again, and I can see his anniversary, with age. (seems to me that I have only to save the contact entry again for the birthday displays)
4. But, in another day, this birthday entry that I "fixed", is not being dislayed any more.

This is not a priority bug, I suppose. But lends me to some embarassing
situations, as I forgot 2 birthday dates that I really could not forget.

More clues:
- every day, at the end of the day, I backup my Evolution data and, sometimes, I restore it back.
- I've updated the evolution-data-server from proposed repository (but this bug happens since Evolution 2.24 in Ubuntu 8.10).

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evolution
Package: evolution 2.26.1-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
SourcePackage: evolution
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-12-generic

Thanks!

Steps to reproduce:
As the problem does not has a clear cause, I really don't know how to reproduce it.

Actual results:
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Expected results:
Although I did not list the steps, in fact all birthday dates shold ever appear in calendar view (all views) when the Birthday Calendar is checked.

Does this happen every time?
Yes, but not with all the contacts that have a birthday date registered.

Other information:
When I upgraded from Ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04, and Evolution 2.26 first read it's database (my /home is in another partition then /, so I did not lose my personal data), I could see that the birthday dates were appearing ok in caledar views.

As I use Evolution in my desktop at home and in my notebook at office, almost every day I do backups and restores to and from a pendrive to move all data between this computers.

I'm certain that I've had a backup made with this issue hapening. And I'm sure that I've made a restore of this data to a Evolution database that was not showing this issue. And after the restore Evolutio got the problem: a contact with a birthday date registered did not appear in any calendar view on that date.

Don't know if this can help...
Comment 1 Milan Crha 2009-07-20 14:01:07 UTC
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 360517 ***
Comment 2 Milan Crha 2009-07-20 14:02:04 UTC
*** Bug 587745 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***