Bug#584157: [korganizer] Reminder doesn't remind anything

[Peter Fritzsche <peter.fritzsche@gmx.de>]

Peter Fritzsche wrote:
> Peter Fritzsche wrote:
> > Package: korganizer
> > Version: 4:4.4.3-1
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > korgac doesn't remind me on any dates I have added to korganizer (of
> > course I added events with reminders enabled). I am using akonadi with
> > file backend and birthday backend. I think that events with time
> > associated show normally. Just tried to test it using an event for today
> > (qwe - warn 15 minutes before start; zxc - warn 15 minutes after start)
> > and one event with time associated (warn 2 minutes before start)
> > 
> > I tried to use dumpAlarms of dbus org.kde.korganizer.KOrgac and it shows
> > 
> > {"AlarmDeamon::dumpAlarms() from 2010-06-01T00:00:00+02:00 to
> > 2010-06-01T23:59:59+02:00", " asd (2010-06-01T21:39:00+02:00)", " qwe
> > (2010-06-01)", " zxc (2010-06-01)"}
> > 
> > I see a reminder for asd, but still miss the one for qwe and zxc.
> 
> The problem seems to be that akonadi (at least on debian) isn't finished
> loading itself and all resource handler when korgac tries the first time to
> get all alarms since it was closed. See
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=223388 for more information. The only
> fix which can be done by the user is to _not_ use akonadi resources in
> korganizer.

A workaround for now could be that a akonadi is started using a script with

#! /bin/sh
/usr/bin/akonadictl start

In $HOME/.kde/Autostart/force-akonadistart.sh (dont forget to make it 
executable).

At least here it works a lot better than automatic starting of akonadi by kde 
itself.

Best regards,
	Peter