[gentoo-user] Recovering kalarm data

[gentoo-user] Recovering kalarm data

[Kevin O'Gorman]

I just had to rebuild pretty much all of KDE.  It went okay except that
all of my alarms from kalarm are gone.  I had hoped that they would be
preserved like most configuration files.

I have a recent backup.  Is there any way to recover them from there?
I don't see the database offhand.  It's not anything obvious like a .kalarm
file in my home dir.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering kalarm data

[Benno Schulenberg]

Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> I just had to rebuild pretty much all of KDE.  It went okay
> except that all of my alarms from kalarm are gone.  I had hoped
> that they would be preserved like most configuration files.
>
> I have a recent backup.  Is there any way to recover them from
> there? I don't see the database offhand.  It's not anything
> obvious like a .kalarm file in my home dir.

Recover ~/.kde/share/apps/kalarm/calendar.ics .

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Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering kalarm data

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On 6/24/06, Benno Schulenberg <benno.schulenberg@gmail.com> wrote:
> Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> > I just had to rebuild pretty much all of KDE.  It went okay
> > except that all of my alarms from kalarm are gone.  I had hoped
> > that they would be preserved like most configuration files.
> >
> > I have a recent backup.  Is there any way to recover them from
> > there? I don't see the database offhand.  It's not anything
> > obvious like a .kalarm file in my home dir.
>
> Recover ~/.kde/share/apps/kalarm/calendar.ics .
>
> Benno

Thanks, that helped.  I found my calendar file had not even been disturbed.
But this means  things are a bit stranger than they first appeared.

When I start kalarm, it does not show any items.  If I add an item, it
shows, but nothing else.  This is the situation that made me think I had
lost everything.

However, I continue to get on-screen alerts according to the original
calendar.  In spite of the fact that I logged off to rebuild KDE (logged in
again under fluxbox to do it), and have now re-logged into KDE.

So: my file !/.kde/share/apps/kalarm/calendar.ics is actually the old one.
Why is a new instance of kalarm not seeing it?  What exactly is running
in the background to give me the old alarms?  How do I get them to
talk to each other again?

Color me amazed.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering kalarm data

[Benno Schulenberg]

Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> When I start kalarm, it does not show any items.  If I add an
> item, it shows, but nothing else.

Have you tried refreshing alarms (under Actions)?  Have tried 
killing all kalarm* processes and then restarting kalarm?

> However, I continue to get on-screen alerts according to the
> original calendar.

So they work, you just can't see them?  Hmm.  Interesting bug.  :)

But the new ones you create, they stay visible?  Also after a 
restart?  Do you maybe have multiple kalarms running?  Multiple KDE 
versions installed?

> So: my file !/.kde/share/apps/kalarm/calendar.ics is actually the
> old one. Why is a new instance of kalarm not seeing it?  What
> exactly is running in the background to give me the old alarms?

Press F1, read chapters 5 and 7.

When you make a new alarm, does it show up in the calendar.ics file?  
If so, copy and old and a new vevent to two files and diff them.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering kalarm data

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On 6/24/06, Benno Schulenberg <benno.schulenberg@gmail.com> wrote:
> Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> > When I start kalarm, it does not show any items.  If I add an
> > item, it shows, but nothing else.
>
> Have you tried refreshing alarms (under Actions)?  Have tried
> killing all kalarm* processes and then restarting kalarm?

Refresh does not seem to do anything.
Killing *all* kalarm* processes required root priv.  But I don't see
it in /etc/init.d, so I don't know what starts it.  The good news is
that once I did that, a new kalarm showed the old alarms.

>
> > However, I continue to get on-screen alerts according to the
> > original calendar.
>
> So they work, you just can't see them?  Hmm.  Interesting bug.  :)

Indeed.

>
> But the new ones you create, they stay visible?  Also after a
> restart?  Do you maybe have multiple kalarms running?  Multiple KDE
> versions installed?

The new ones stayed visible in the kalarm instance that created them,
or in one I started just to look at them, but they disappeared when
I finally figured out how to go back to the old ones.  There probably
were multiple kalarms, but I'm not sure because it was a bit confusing.

Nope, single version -- the latest stuff as of yesterday, built from
scratch the day before.

>
> > So: my file !/.kde/share/apps/kalarm/calendar.ics is actually the
> > old one. Why is a new instance of kalarm not seeing it?  What
> > exactly is running in the background to give me the old alarms?
>
> Press F1, read chapters 5 and 7.

I'll do that.  But things seem to be back to stable.
>
> When you make a new alarm, does it show up in the calendar.ics file?
No.  How odd.

> If so, copy and old and a new vevent to two files and diff them.
>
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Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering kalarm data

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On 6/24/06, Benno Schulenberg <benno.schulenberg@gmail.com> wrote:
> Press F1, read chapters 5 and 7.

??? F1  gets generic KDE stuff, and it does not have chapters that I can see.
Searching for "kalarm" doesn't do any good either.

WHat am I missing?
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Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering kalarm data

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

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On Sunday 25 June 2006 04:08, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> ??? F1  gets generic KDE stuff, and it does not have chapters that I can
> see. Searching for "kalarm" doesn't do any good either.
>
> WHat am I missing?

Try typing

$ konqueror help:/kalarm/index.html

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Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering kalarm data

[Benno Schulenberg]

Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> Killing *all* kalarm* processes required root priv.

You've apparently been logged in to KDE as root once, or done other 
weird stuff as root.  You may wish to look through /root/.kde* for 
things to salvage, and then delete it all.  And look through ~/.kde 
for files with root ownership (cd ~/.kde; find . -user root).

When you now log back in to KDE (as user, of course), is there again 
a kalarmd process owned by root?

> > Press F1, read chapters 5 and 7.

What I meant here, of course, is to press F1 while in the Kalarm 
window.  :)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering kalarm data

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On 6/25/06, Benno Schulenberg <benno.schulenberg@gmail.com> wrote:
> Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> > Killing *all* kalarm* processes required root priv.
>
> You've apparently been logged in to KDE as root once, or done other
> weird stuff as root.  You may wish to look through /root/.kde* for
> things to salvage, and then delete it all.  And look through ~/.kde
> for files with root ownership (cd ~/.kde; find . -user root).

You're quite right.  I hadn't realized it, but I was apparently root when
I was exploring this before: I found that missing alarm that I entered
when the alarms didn't show up.  So it was operator error all along --
if I had just been my usual self, everything would have been normal.
I had been working as root a lot to rebuild KDE, and just lost track, I
guess.  My bad.

Sorry for the excitement.  Thanks for the help.

Everything is normal again.

>
> When you now log back in to KDE (as user, of course), is there again
> a kalarmd process owned by root?
>
> > > Press F1, read chapters 5 and 7.
>
> What I meant here, of course, is to press F1 while in the Kalarm
> window.  :)
>
> Benno
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