Public bug reported:
First of all, sorry; this explanation got a little long, but i fixed the
bug myself for now. This is just a description for the developers, to
fix the bug in the future.
A brief explanation what "without time set" is supposed to mean:
Let's say you synchronize your reminders from your phone over icloud (as i do -
caldav.icloud.com)
then there may be reminders that are not triggered by time, but for example by
a location.
I recently set a reminder to occure when i enter a specific street.
As i went to that street these days the reminder came up on both devices, my
phone and the ubuntu machine.
Of course i did only set the location where the reminder should occure,
no additional time.
But as the reminder got triggered and was shown on the ubuntu machine,
there simply was a notification in the top right corner saying
"[Reminder info] (Invalid time: 0 seconds ago)
Later i noticed, that the clock in the unity bar had frozen some time
ago.
I tried serval things and tried every known solution i could find -
still nothing.
Everything that happened was: when i restarted whole unity, the time was
uptodate (for that moment) and the service was active for half a second,
then it crashed, i could not access any menu entries from the clock
menu, neither change the time settings.
I started the indicator-datetime-service from command line, it simply
crashed and now the clock also disappeared, only appearing for a second
on launching the service again.
The bug could be fixed by opening the synchronized calendar in Evolution
and removing the concerning reminder. I could then launch the service
again and my time is now uptodate.
I guess this is something not occuring very often, but i think it should
probably fixed so that a reminder without time set doesn't crash the
whole service.
Additional info:
Package: indicator-datetime
Version: 15.10+16.04.20160406-0ubuntu1
Ubuntu Version 16.04.1 LTS 64bit
To reconstruct the bug: Use any calendar software (Evolution for example)
to connect to a caldav calendar that supports different
triggers than
time (iOS reminders app for example - supports setting a
place as trigger)
Set the default calendar application to the ubuntu
system internal one
(gnome-calendar) and check if the calendar appears
there as well
Then on the other device / software, that supports the
different trigger,
simply add a reminder triggered not by time, but by
that other event and
fire it.
The bug should now occure, the clock should freeze and
the service should
crash.
** Affects: indicator-datetime (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Indicator Crash on CalDAV entry without time set
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