Korganizer Reminder Deamon Problem

[Peter G.]

I haven't changed a thing and I have had these 
reminders set in the ical file for years. Whenever 
there is a new Fedora, I set up akonadi to use this 
resource. Everything has worked like a greased axle... 
until today!?

I resumed my computer and, at the time of my morning 
alert, the reminder was triggered, like it was supposed 
to. I dismissed it, and one minute later, it triggered 
again. I dismissed it, and one minute later, it 
triggered again.

I tried suspending for 1 minute, then dismissing next 
time. I tried rebooting the computer. I tried 
dismissing all reminders. I tried disabling reminders 
(worked, but no reminders) and then enabling them 
again, but the whole thing started all over again.

What is going on? I don't believe there were even any 
program updates yesterday.

[Peter G.]

Peter G.  wrote:

>  I resumed my computer and, at the time of my morning
>  alert, the reminder was triggered, like it was  
supposed
>  to. I dismissed it, and one minute later, it  
triggered
>  again. 
There is one further thing that might have some bearing 
on this problem.

A couple of days ago, there was an updates-testing (I 
am still running this repo) update with a new kernel, 
systemd (?) and some qt5 (?) things in it. I don't 
recall what else. About last Thursday.

Anyway, after I rebooted the computer in order to use 
the new kernel, I logged in to KDE from the login 
screen and KDE loaded with a black screen. It took 
about 30 seconds, before the desktop appeared, and then 
another 30 seconds or so for the system tray to appear. 
Normally, both the desktop and system tray are there 
within a second or so after login.

Maybe something in the update is defective and is 
preventing some kind of system communication?

I haven't tried using the previous kernel yet. I should 
do it.

[Peter G.]

Peter G.  wrote:

>  updates-testing 
I downgraded to updates. No more updates-testing (but I 
still have kdeforge, of course!).

The slow appearance of the desktop and system tray is 
cured. All is working on that front, but...

the original problem with the reminder daemon alerts 
that cannot be dismissed persists :-((

What is going on?

[Peter G.]

Peter G.  wrote:

>  the original problem with the reminder daemon alerts
>  that cannot be dismissed persists :-(( 
Another thing I should mention is that I actually have 
3 alerts, one at 10, one at 11 and one at noon.

Each of these 3 alerts triggered every minute for one 
full hour and then stopped. The final of the three just 
stopped 5 minutes ago, at 1 pm.

They worked just fine for years, like I already said. I 
have examined the alerts and they are all daily alerts 
set up to trigger x number of hours after the start of 
the day and to trigger once, unless deferred.

Problem with some recent update? (was Re: Korganizer Reminder Deamon Problem)

[Richard Z]

On Sun, Mar 08, 2015 at 12:57:06PM -0600, Peter G.  wrote:
>  Peter G.  wrote:
>  
>  > updates-testing
>  
>  I downgraded to updates. No more updates-testing (but I 
>  still have kdeforge, of course!).
>  
>  The slow appearance of the desktop and system tray is 
>  cured. All is working on that front, but... 

interesting. I am also seeing random hard to trace problems since
I updated many packages yesterday - qt and kernel among many others.

What I see:
- various image viewers (gwenview among others) crash or fail to display 
  larger but still reasonable size images
- occassional hangs of Firefox

Intel graphics and i686 here.

Richard

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Problem with some recent update? (was Re: Korganizer Reminder Deamon Problem)

[Reindl Harald]

Am 11.03.2015 um 14:08 schrieb Richard Z:
>  On Sun, Mar 08, 2015 at 12:57:06PM -0600, Peter G.  wrote:
> > Peter G.  wrote:
> >
> >> updates-testing
> >
> > I downgraded to updates. No more updates-testing (but I
> > still have kdeforge, of course!).
> >
> > The slow appearance of the desktop and system tray is
> > cured. All is working on that front, but...
>
>  interesting. I am also seeing random hard to trace problems since
>  I updated many packages yesterday - qt and kernel among many others.
>
>  What I see:
>  - various image viewers (gwenview among others) crash or fail to display
>     larger but still reasonable size images
>  - occassional hangs of Firefox
>
>  Intel graphics and i686 here 
unconfirmed on x86_64 Sandy Brdige / IvyBridge with Intel graphics

[Emmett Culley]

On 03/08/2015 10:37 AM, Peter G.  wrote:
>  I haven't changed a thing and I have had these
>  reminders set in the ical file for years. Whenever
>  there is a new Fedora, I set up akonadi to use this
>  resource. Everything has worked like a greased axle...
>  until today!?
>  
>  I resumed my computer and, at the time of my morning
>  alert, the reminder was triggered, like it was supposed
>  to. I dismissed it, and one minute later, it triggered
>  again. I dismissed it, and one minute later, it
>  triggered again.
>  
>  I tried suspending for 1 minute, then dismissing next
>  time. I tried rebooting the computer. I tried
>  dismissing all reminders. I tried disabling reminders
>  (worked, but no reminders) and then enabling them
>  again, but the whole thing started all over again.
>  
>  What is going on? I don't believe there were even any
>  program updates yesterday.
>   
I saw this as well on my wife's machine.  I don't use korganizer.  On her
machine I've turned off notifications for now.

And now that there are two seeing this issue, I suppose I need to make a bug report.

Emmett

[Peter G.]

Emmett Culley wrote:

>  I've turned off notifications for now. 
While I was fiddling round, after I wrote the last of 
this series of posts, I noticed that,, on the 
korganizer edit reminder/configure page, there is a 
repeat x times every x minutes field, which, by default 
says repeat 1 time every  minute, but I have the box in 
front of it unclicked and it never has been activated. 
Perhaps, for some reason, the program doesn't recognize 
that the box is not clicked. What I did was to go 
through the three reminders and click/save and 
unclick/save the box. I won't know until tomorrow 
morning, when the reminders are next activated.