After importing tasks to synchronize with another computer, I managed to mangle the configuration so that I can no longer see the tasks. They appear on the Summary but not in Tasks or Calendar (day view). I could copy ~/local/Tasks to another folder and defining that in Tools >> Settings >> Folder Settings for the Tasks. Then I see it in Tasks or Summary. Under Calendar, though, the task list stays blank. If I type a new task it just disappears. It's obviously going into a second directory somewhere. I noticed that Evolution saves a lot of its configuration in .gconf rather than the evolution folder. That's suspicious.... Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. I wish I could say how to initiate it. 2. 3. emerge info: Portage 2.0.50-r11 (default-x86-2004.2, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r1, 2.6.8-gentoo-r3) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.8-gentoo-r3 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.70GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mmmx -msse -msse2 -mfpmath=sse" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.hamakor.org.il/pub/mirrors/gentoo http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X Xaw3d acpi alsa arts avi berkdb bidi bindist bitmap-fonts bonobo bzlib cdr crypt cscope cups dga div4linux dvd encode esd exif fftw flac flash foomaticdb ftp gdbm gif ginac gnome gphoto2 gpm gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib java jpeg ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod ming motif mozilla mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcmcia pdflib perl png pnp python quicktime radeon readline samba sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype trusted unicode usb wmf x86 xinerama xml2 xmms xprint xv xvid zeo zlib"
I managed to resolve it in the meantime. The configuration was left in .gconf, which gets saved at logout. Erasing the evolution/ directory or even re-emerging didn't help. 'lsof' to the rescue! The solution was to kill evolution manually: evolution-1.4 --force-shutdown, and then to close gnome. Still, it's still a lower-priority bug that the Tasks appearing in the Calendar window don't see the defined Tasks directory.
Is this still a problem? I'd suggest if it's a gconf settings problem, you might do the following - but be aware - you'll probably need to re setup your evolution configuration. killall -9 gconfd-2 rm -rf ~/.gconf/apps/evolution /usr/libexec/gconfd-2 &
Thanks for the tip. I haven't had trouble recently, but I've upgraded since to Evolution 2. I'll keep an eye on gconfd-2 though, because sometimes it does do strange things. Do you want to close the bug?
Sure, thanks for getting back to us.
