405562 - root can not see created tasks

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 349529

(Calendar :: General, defect)

Description

[Jin Shi]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070814 Firefox/2.0.0.4
Build Identifier: thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (20071119); lightning/0.7

when login as root, after creating some tasks and enable show tasks in calendar, then go to the calendar, nothing will be shown; however, when you login as normal user, after retrying this again, tasks can be shown in the calendar

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.login in as root
2.File -> New -> Task to create some new tasks
3.click calendar button in the left bottom of thunderbird, go to month view
4.login in as normal user
5.repeat 2-3 agian
Actual Results:  
you will see nothing when you login as root, however, you will see everything when you login in as normal user

Expected Results:  
no matter you login in as root or not, you should see the tasks you created.

Comment 1

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

I assume that each user has it's own Thunderbird profile. You can't see the tasks from another users profile except you setup a shared calendar. What calendar type do you use?

Comment 2

[emily chen]

Hi Stefan, yes, every user has its own profile. From Jin Shi's step,it doesn't mean the root user can see the tasks created by a normal user.  The calendar is local calendar(Create on your computer). 

After investigation, this bug's root cause is at the start date of task. If the start date is missing, it won't show the task in the calendar. 

When login as root user, the task will be created without start date and due date by default. 
While login in as normal user, the task will be created with start date is today. 

Comment 3

[Sebastian Schwieger]

Emily,
that might be due to a preference setting to enable alarms for tasks by default. If this preference is set, a start date is automatically assigned to the task upon creation.

Comment 4

[Bas van den Bosch]

Or due to different versions of Lightning for the root and the user-account. As these are seperate profiles they don't use the same install of TB. INVALID?

Comment 5

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

According to Comment #2 I'd said it's a duplicate of Bug 349529.

The different behavior in the different profiles is caused by the difference preferences as mentioned in Comment #3.