430648 - moving calendar entries results in freeze

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Calendar :: General, defect)

Description

[rsa]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080221 Firefox/2.0.0.12
Build Identifier: 2008042218

When moving an own calendar entry or the calendar entry of somebody else in the invitation group thunderbird/lightning crashes. The right thing it should do in my opinion is to open a new mail compose window to all appointment owners which are involved with this calendar entry and notifies them of the new time and date of the appointment, for updating the entry. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Create a calendar entry with an invitation for at least two people. 
2. The two people should accept the entry so both entries are show in the calendar.
3. Move the calendar entry of one of the other persons to another date.
Actual Results:  
The application crashes

Expected Results:  
It should open a new mail compose window which is being sdirected to all appointment members of the calendar entry. So they can update their appointement to the other date.

Comment 1

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

Please provide more information:
What Thunderbird version do you use? What Lightning version do you use? 
What calendars do you use? Local storage, ics file, CalDAV server, ... ?
How do you move the event? Selecting a different calendar from the event dialog? Or via Cut and Paste? ...
Did Thunderbird submit a crash report? If yes please post the corresponding incident ID.

Comment 2

[rsa]

Im using Thunderbird version 2.0.0.12 (20080213) (Linux and Windows) and the latest stable release of lightning 0.8. I'm using the caldav server rscds with lighting (network calendars).
The crash or freeze appears when I change to the calendar view in thunderbird and move either my calendar entry or the one from another person on the same appointment (invitation) to another day. Then it lets me move the calendar entry but freezes or crashes immediately without really moving it somewhere. Also it keeps the icon attached to my mouse pointer during the freeze and I can do nothing else than kill thunderbird over the console. I don't get no crash report or anything else I can attach.

I hope I could provide you with enough information

Comment 3

[timeless]

assuming you're actually hanging (iow the windows don't go away),

http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/How_to_get_a_stacktrace_with_WinDbg

debug>attach to process

follow the instructions

.logopen /t c:\bug430648
!analyze -v -hang
.logclose

"add an attachment" containing the log file...

Comment 4

[rsa]

sorry, for the long reply time. Could you please give me the concerning information for a Unix Based System ? I actually don't have access to a Windows System and just tried it out once, to see if it's just this OS which has the problem.

Comment 5

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

It might be a duplicate of Bug 348009.

Please open Tools -> Error Console before moving the events and check if any messages appear while moving the event.

Comment 6

[timeless]

http://www.mozilla.org/unix/debugging-faq.html

you'll need to build your own ...

http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/2.0.0.12/source/thunderbird-2.0.0.12-source.tar.bz2

that's the sources for thunderbird....

http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/calendar/lightning/releases/0.8/source/lightning-sunbird-0.8-source.tar.bz2

that's the sources for the latest version of lightning.

http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Build_Documentation might or might not have useful information on building.

eventually you'll almost certainly need to visit irc.mozilla.org ask someone to guide you to the right channels.

your build needs to have one of --enable-debug or --enable-debugger-info-modules. and it must not have --enable-strip. i'd suggest --disable-optimize

eventually you'll either use:

cd objdir/dist/bin
./run-mozilla.sh -g -d gdb ./thunderbird-bin
run
...
^C
thread apply all bt
c
^C
thread apply all bt
c

there are other ways to get samples, but this should work.

Comment 7

[rsa]

I just tried your newest nightly build and the problem doesn't seem to occur anymore. Do you still want debug output from the an older version of lightning ? 

Another error which I thought was gone, appeared:

1. I invited two persons to an event with email
2. Both Persons got the mail
3. One Person accepted the calendar invitation
4. Now the other Person (or all other Persons) don't have an accept button any more. (After one attendee accepted the invitation) Its just saying "This message contains an event which has already been added to your caledndar"

Comment 8

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

Resolving as WORKSFORME per Comment #7.

The new issue raised in Comment #7 seems to be covered with Bug 431522.