4:4.8.3-0ubuntu0.1 version of ktimetracker hopelessly broken

Bug #1010498 reported by weez
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This bug affects 2 people
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kdepim (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
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Bug Description

After the recent huge 200+ package upgrade, ktimetracker (AKA karm) has so many bugs it is completely unusable:

* Times randomly change even when not touching anything
* Time is not tracked when the clock is ticking
* Open items with subitems close every minute or so
* The Disk full? error pops up constantly
* When I still had idle tracking on, I came back to 200 dialogs with the continue/revert question

I suffered with this for a few days using date in a terminal to keep track of time and then I decided no matter how much work it was, I needed to downgrade. It didn't hurt too much, make sure you killall karm before doing the change or the old version might hang around for a while longer.

sudo apt-get install ktimetracker=4:4.8.2-0ubuntu2 libkdepim4=4:4.8.2-0ubuntu2
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  akregator kaddressbook kdepim-kresources kmail knotes kontact korganizer
  libeventviews4 libincidenceeditorsng4 libmailcommon4 libmessagecomposer4
  libmessageviewer4 libtemplateparser4
The following packages will be DOWNGRADED:
  ktimetracker libkdepim4

If you need any of those other packages, you can continue specifying package:version until you get everything you need.

Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in kdepim (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Hannes Coetzee (skuilplek) wrote :

Same problem on my box. After downgrading as suggested by the above post the disk full error persisted. I had to remove two files from and it is working again. Thank you for posting the info on how to downgrade - it was most helpful

/home/scorpking/.kde/share/apps/kabc/lock/_home_scorpking_.kde_share_apps_ktimetracker_ktimetracker.ics.lock
/home/scorpking/.kde/share/apps/kabc/lock/_home_scorpking_.kde_share_apps_ktimetracker_ktimetracker.icsTCvLqo2a

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