GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 587745
Evolution most of the time does not display contact birthdays
Last modified: 2009-07-20 14:02:04 UTC
Please describe the problem: 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 to reproduce: 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, or any other data of it. 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. Note: some contacts entries that has birthday registered *always* appears in the callendar view. Some others (and I say: most of them!) keep playing this hide and seek game, sometimes appears, sometimes (most of the time), not. This kind of action 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). Actual results: Decribed above. Expected results: All my contacts entries that have birthday date registered must appear in the callendar view, when the anniversary category is checked. Does this happen every time? Yes. It's rare to have this feature functioning well. Other information: ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evolution Package: evolution 2.26.1-0ubuntu1 PackageArchitecture: i386 SourcePackage: evolution Uname: Linux 2.6.28-13-generic Gnome: 2.26.1 Thanks!
I think that this could be a clue, and it happened more then once: - scenario: the birthday dates are not showing in calledar view, although there are some registered in some contacts entries; - after Evolution beeing running for more than a day, without exiting it, suddenly it closes by it self, and even if I'm not using it; - when I open Evolution again, after this, all the birthday dates are now showing! This happened more the once, in my notebook and in my desktop, both with the same configuration and software versions I described above.
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 582628 ***