270432 - 12.000 alarms generated at the creation of a task

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Calendar :: General, defect)

Description

[Patrick Guermonprez]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a4) Gecko/20040927
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a4) Gecko/20040927

Thousands of alarms are generated when a task is created with bad parameters
(start/due date & alarm issued ... before start/due date)

 -> Mozilla blocked every time the ics file is open 
!!! DANGER: if the ics file is on a web_dav server! Callendar blocked on each PC
that will synchronise with the server...

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create an task
2. Specify a due date (no start date)
3. Select the alarm checkbutton. (0 minute "before the task starts")

Actual Results:  
12.000 alarms to be aknowledged... Calendar and Mozilla are frozen...
Soution... Kill process...
Update manually the ics file locally and on the server...

Situation is recovered...

Expected Results:  
If no start date/time is specified, the alarm "... before the task starts"
should not be an option for the emission of the alarm. (and then if no due
date/time is specified, no "... before the task is due" should be in the list)

Comment 1

[Michiel van Leeuwen (email: mvl+moz@)]

Which version of calendar are you using?
This might be fixed in recent versions

Comment 2

[Patrick Guermonprez]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Which version of calendar are you using?
> This might be fixed in recent versions

This happens with version Mozilla Calendar 2004091012-cal and also with Mozilla
Sunbird/0.2a

Comment 3

[Patrick Guermonprez]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Which version of calendar are you using?
> This might be fixed in recent versions

OK... I've downloaded version 2004111214-cal. Problem fixed in the new version.

Comment 4

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

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