263528 - Creating a ToDo item with a Due Date but no Start Date causes infinite loop

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 257943

(Calendar :: General, defect)

Description

[anand bedekar]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.1) Gecko/20040707
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.1) Gecko/20040707

When you create a ToDo (Task) item and set a Due Date but no Start Date,
Calendar seems to use up all CPU and RAM usage starts growing. Only option seems
to be to kill the process. On deleting the Task item from the
CalendarDataFile.ics (marked by BEGIN:VTODO and END:VTODO), all returns to normal. 

This seems to be happening since the start date/ due date were made optional
(see bug 22075). It happens with the 2004100812-cal build, and also with the
previous 20040910 build of Mozilla Calendar. Have not tried with Sunbird or with
Calendar for Firefox/Thunderbird.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a New Task (ToDo) (File->New Task)
2. Check Due Date box and set a date in the future, but leave Start Date box
unchecked
3. Click "OK"

Actual Results:  
Mozilla froze. Did ctrl-alt-del to bring up the processes list : mozilla process
was using up all CPU and growing RAM usage. Killed mozilla process.

Expected Results:  
Software should have added the New Task with the expected Due Date.

Comment 1

[gekacheka]

This sounds similar to bug 257943 or bug 257714, except this doesn't mention an
alarm.  What timezone is in use when this occurs?

Comment 2

[Michel Brabants]

I can confirm this. I'm using calendar 2004091012 with thunderbird.
I have it on timezone Europe/Brussels

Comment 3

[k b]

20040924-cal on
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041001

cannot confirm. i have no problems, tried both with local and remote calendar

Comment 4

[Mostafa Hosseini]

Can you please try the new builds and see if this is fixed now?

Comment 5

[anand bedekar]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Can you please try the new builds and see if this is fixed now?

I just tried the new 2004-11-04 build on windows, it does not happen now.

Comment 6

[Mostafa Hosseini]

Fixed in bug 257943

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 257943 ***

Comment 7

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

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