123588 - Not saving event data

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Calendar :: General, defect)

Description

[xyzzy]

Have current XPI installed:

1. Create test event in Calendar.  Hit OK, not Cancel.
2. Event displays in current view.
3. Exit Calendar

While the file CalendarDataFile.txt exists, nothing has been written to it.  The
next time the Calendar is started, the view is empty.  No data was saved.

Comment 1

[Mike Potter]

Are there any JS errors in the console?

Comment 2

[xyzzy]

When starting from the Tasks Menu:

Warning: test for equality (==) mistyped as assignment (=)?
Source File: chrome://communicator/content/tasksOverlay.js
Line: 225, Column: 30
Source Code:
  while (sep = sep.nextSibling) {

Otherwise, no.

Comment 3

[Kyle Krom]

I'm seeing this problem also.

Win95 running the Mozilla 0.98 release version, installing Calendar via
the XPI from Feb. 5, 2002.

Additional symptoms of the same problem:
1. You don't have to close and reopen the calendar. Use the Reload entry in the
context menu, and watch the event disappear.
2. Create a repeating event. Only the first occurence shows up in the month
view. And even that one disappears upon Reload or upon closing/opening the Calendar.

Comment 4

[Gareth King]

I see it as well:

Mozilla 0.9.8
XPI from 10 Feb

Comment 5

[Chris Charabaruk]

Same here. Win98 (4.10.1998), 0.9.8 milestone, and I grabbed the XPI on Friday
(11  Feb) around 11pm -0500. Combined to this was a crash taking all of Mozilla
down (probably from bug 123772).

Comment 6

[Chris Charabaruk]

Sorry, that should be Feb 9, not 11.

Comment 7

[Mike Potter]

I wonder if it's perhaps a permission problem on the file? 
I don't see this on Linux at all.
Without any JS errors in the console, this will be tough to track down. I'll
need the help of people who can reproduce the bug to track it down and fix it.

Comment 8

[Gareth King]

Mike

I'd be happy to help in anyway I can - just let me know.

I do get a JS error when I start up the Calendar:

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Could not convert JavaScript argument
(NULL value cannot be used for a C++ reference type) arg 0
[nsISupports.QueryInterface]"  nsresult: "0x8057000b
(NS_ERROR_XPC_BAD_CONVERT_JS_NULL_REF)"  location: "JS frame ::
chrome://cookie/content/cookieTasksOverlay.xul :: TestIconVisibility :: line 52"
 data: no]

Also a warning (x2):

Warning: reference to undefined property Components.interfaces.nsICookieService
Source File: chrome://cookie/content/cookieTasksOverlay.xul
Line: 52

The CalendarDataFile.txt file is created at the top level of my profile
directory and it is not 'read only'.

Comment 9

[Kyle Krom]

I'll do whatever I can to help with the troubleshooting on this. In the
meantime, more observations on the CalendarDataFile.txt file: (I don't use
"Turbo" mode, so when I restart Mozilla it should theoretically be a complete
restart)
<ol>
<li>The data file exists: it's located at
C:\Windows\Mozilla\Profiles\...\...\CalendarDataFile.txt
<li>If I open the Calendar in Mozilla, add an event, and close the Calendar: the
file has not been updated. Its timestamp and contents are unchanged. Upon
restarting the Calendar, the newly created event is not there.
<li>If I close Mozilla, delete CalendarDataFile.txt, restart Mozilla, and start
the Calendar: a new CalendarDataFile.txt file is created. It's an empty file
with a new timestamp. The new file's behaviour is the same -- new events are not
saved and the file does not get updated.
<li>If I close Mozilla, replace CalendarDataFile.txt with a sample VCalendar
file, restart Mozilla, and start the Calendar: the existing events from the
sample file show up correctly in the Calendar. But the behaviour is still the
same -- new events are not saved and the file does not get updated.
</ol>
I get no JavaScript console error messages. And I honestly don't see how file
permissions could be involved on my Windows95 box.
<p>
I'll confess that I haven't used the Calendar before, and since I haven't seen
any documentation I don't know if I'm missing something. Is there something I'm
supposed to be doing in order to save my changes to CalendarDataFile.txt before
I close the Calendar?
<p>
BTW, I can NOT reproduce my findings from Comment #3 regarding repeating events.
(Maybe I was on an earlier Mozilla version when I saw that?)

Comment 10

[Mike Potter]

OK, Mostafa is working on this bug right now. I'm pretty sure that we'll have
figured it out by the end of this week.
I'm reassinging this bug to him, he can close it when he's done. It only
happened when we changed the location of the calendar data file.

Comment 11

[Mike Potter]

This bug is fixed with the latest XPI available now.

Comment 12

[Kyle Krom]

After working with Mike Potter, I can confirm that this is now working correctly
for me. However, the XPI did not automatically update the necessary files on my
PC. I had to manually delete the following files from my Mozilla directory:

libical*.dll
components\xpical.dll

After this step, the XPI re-install worked perfectly. Thanks again, guys!

Comment 13

[xyzzy]

Thanks for that info Kyle.  Verified.

Comment 14

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

The bugspam monkeys have been set free and are feeding on Calendar :: General. Be afraid for your sanity!