Bug 74850

Summary:	dataloss while changing umlauts that are encoded wrong
Product:	[Unmaintained] kab3	Reporter:	Helge Hielscher <hhielscher>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Tobias Koenig <tokoe>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	normal	CC:	bill, jon.dean
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Mandrake RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	example of dataloss with testcase

Description Helge Hielscher 2004-02-10 17:27:33 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.2.0)
Installed from:    Mandrake RPMs

how to reproduce:
1. import testcase.ldif (sent via PM)
2. open the Contact Editor extension
3. correct some entries like M$C3$BCller to Müller

result: sometimes the contact list gets empty, only the card one edits is shown, undo does not bring the list back

sorry, but I could not trigger the bug down further
I edited with the mouse and the keys Home,End,Left,Right and marking with Shift+End or deleting with backspace

looks like this output on the konsole may be related:
QDate::fromString: Parameter out of range
QComboBox::setCurrentItem: (unnamed) Index 3 out of range
QDate::fromString: Parameter out of range
QComboBox::setCurrentItem: (unnamed) Index 3 out of range
QDate::fromString: Parameter out of range
QComboBox::setCurrentItem: (unnamed) Index 3 out of range
QDate::fromString: Parameter out of range
QComboBox::setCurrentItem: (unnamed) Index 3 out of range

Comment 1 Tobias Koenig 2004-02-14 23:59:56 UTC

Hi,

I'm able to rename all contacts with missing umlaute without data loose here.
Do you have other programms running at the same time which uses data from
KAddressBook (KMail, KOrganizer, KickPim)?

Ciao,
Tobias

Comment 2 Helge Hielscher 2004-02-15 01:53:55 UTC

No, unfortunately, I am not running any other KPim Programms. I am still able to reproduce the bug (running kdepim-kaddressbook-3.2-10mdk), though it doesnt happen every time. Most of the time I select some of the wrong umlauts, then hit return, backspace, enter the new value and hit enter.

Running kaddressbook as a different user does not help. At sunday, I am going to try to narrow down the testcase, but I am not sure that it will be successful.

Comment 3 Helge Hielscher 2004-02-15 16:08:27 UTC

Ok, now I am able to trigger the bug more often. This is what I have done:
1. deleted all contacts
2. imported testcase
3. sorted by given name
4. changed the Names in the folowing way (using the contact editor extension):
4a. click on a contact in a contact list (e.g. J$C3$B6rg Brauns)
4b. click before the mess starts
4c. hit "End"
4d. delete everything except the "J"
4e. enter the corrected name
4f. press Return

That worked sometimes, but not always. But there is a high chance to see the bug if you change multiple entries like the one described above.

If you are still unable to see the bug on your system: is there some kind of a macro recorder that I may use, so that you can see what (and how) I did when I triggered the bug?

Comment 4 Helge Hielscher 2004-02-16 16:02:52 UTC

Created attachment 4728 [details]
example of dataloss with testcase

Comment 5 Helge Hielscher 2004-02-16 16:10:30 UTC

the example above (created with vnc2swf) was created the following way:
1. deleted all contacs
2. imported testcase
3. selected the contact "Karl Heinz Nie"
4. marked the string behind "Nie" with the mouse
5. overwrote it with "ßler"

note: this way the bug happens often, but not every time

Comment 6 Tobias Koenig 2004-02-26 12:55:11 UTC

*** Bug 76163 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 Tobias Koenig 2004-03-05 08:55:38 UTC

*** Bug 76781 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8 Tobias Koenig 2004-03-29 10:39:50 UTC

Hi,

this is fixed in CVS HEAD now.

Ciao,
Tobias

Comment 9 Tobias Koenig 2009-08-05 16:04:59 UTC

The development of the old KAddressBook will be discontinued for KDE 4.4.
Since the new application has the same name, but a completly new code base we close all bug reports against the old version and ask the submitters to resend there reports against the new product.