New installation of Kalarm in Mint 17. Trying to setup alarms but all options are greyed out thus unavailable. (i.e. New) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Launch Kalarm 2. 3. Actual Results: No actions available Expected Results: setup new alarm reminders After launch - get 4 msgboxes (1) KResource migration tool ! Trying to migrate default address book ! Creating instance of type akonadi vcard resource (tick) Migration of default address book succeeded (2) Failed to create default calender "archived alarms" (3) Failed to create default calender "Alarm templates" (4) Failed to create default calender "Active alarms" (All listing location "blah,blah" New configuration timed out
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If there is no active alarm calendar, most of the menu options will be greyed out. The reason why creation of the default calendars failed obviously needs investigation - it's not obvious why this would happen if Akonadi is running, as it seems to be. Could you please check - what are the file permissions of the directory ~/.kde/share/apps/kalarm, and does it contain any files?
Created attachment 88666 [details] Screenshot.png File permissions and files in directory as attached screenshots. On 12/09/14 00:02, David Jarvie wrote: > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=338910 > > David Jarvie <djarvie@kde.org> changed: > > What |Removed |Added > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Component|kalarmd |general > > --- Comment #2 from David Jarvie <djarvie@kde.org> --- > If there is no active alarm calendar, most of the menu options will be greyed > out. The reason why creation of the default calendars failed obviously needs > investigation - it's not obvious why this would happen if Akonadi is running, > as it seems to be. > > Could you please check - what are the file permissions of the directory > ~/.kde/share/apps/kalarm, and does it contain any files? >
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Many apologies. Please ignore mail just sent at 3:37 am. Screenshots from wrong computer. will check again and resend. On 12/09/14 00:02, David Jarvie wrote: > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=338910 > > David Jarvie <djarvie@kde.org> changed: > > What |Removed |Added > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Component|kalarmd |general > > --- Comment #2 from David Jarvie <djarvie@kde.org> --- > If there is no active alarm calendar, most of the menu options will be greyed > out. The reason why creation of the default calendars failed obviously needs > investigation - it's not obvious why this would happen if Akonadi is running, > as it seems to be. > > Could you please check - what are the file permissions of the directory > ~/.kde/share/apps/kalarm, and does it contain any files? >
Created attachment 88668 [details] Screenshot.png Here are the correct screenshots. On 12/09/14 00:02, David Jarvie wrote: > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=338910 > > David Jarvie <djarvie@kde.org> changed: > > What |Removed |Added > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Component|kalarmd |general > > --- Comment #2 from David Jarvie <djarvie@kde.org> --- > If there is no active alarm calendar, most of the menu options will be greyed > out. The reason why creation of the default calendars failed obviously needs > investigation - it's not obvious why this would happen if Akonadi is running, > as it seems to be. > > Could you please check - what are the file permissions of the directory > ~/.kde/share/apps/kalarm, and does it contain any files? >
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I see that the kalarm folder belongs to root. This would prevent write access by you as a user. Try changing the owner to your user, and see if it works after that.
Changed permissions as suggested but still the same. On 12/09/14 12:32, David Jarvie wrote: > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=338910 > > --- Comment #8 from David Jarvie <djarvie@kde.org> --- > I see that the kalarm folder belongs to root. This would prevent write access > by you as a user. Try changing the owner to your user, and see if it works > after that. >
Reviewing old bugs - it looks as if the file permissions which you reported are actually for the kalarm executable, not for the files in directory ~/.kde/share/apps/kalarm. It would also be useful if you could list the first 5 lines of the file ~/.kde/share/apps/kalarm/calendar.ics.
KAlarm for KDE 4 is now unsupported, so closing this bug. If you see the same fault using KDE Frameworks ("KDE 5"), please reopen this bug report.