[Bug 484110] [NEW] Hamster applet chokes on tasks.ics

[Richard de Boer]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: hamster-applet

I'm having the same problem as https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hamster-applet/+bug/392066 : hamster applet only showing a single vertical line in the panel.
Only I'm pretty sure it isn't a problem with the database file, I even tried uninstalling hamster-applet, removing my hamster.db, and then reinstalling, but it still won't show.

Hamster version: 2.28.0

Output from running in terminal:

richard at bagheera:~$ uname -a
Linux bagheera 2.6.31-14-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 16 14:05:01 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux
richard at bagheera:~$ /usr/lib/hamster-applet/hamster-applet -wt
Binding shortcut <Super>H to popup hamster
SELECT version FROM version None
select count(*) from categories None

                   SELECT lower(a.name) as name, b.name as category
                     FROM activities a
                LEFT JOIN categories b on coalesce(b.id, -1) = a.category_id
                    WHERE deleted is null
                 ORDER BY lower(a.name)
         None
SELECT * FROM categories ORDER BY category_order None
** (hamster-applet:16368): DEBUG: Opening calendar source uri: file:///home/richard/.evolution/tasks/local/system


Just before posting in that bug I realized it would probably be a problem with opening the calendar file, and it was: after removing my .evolution folder the applet ran fine.
The file that caused the problems seemed to be ~/.evolution/tasks/local/system/tasks.ics (attached)
Something recreated the file while I was testing this, not sure if it was due to hamster accessing the file, or some evolution process I missed (pretty sure I killed all of those though, and this was the only file recreated in a new ~/.evolution folder)
The only difference between the attached file, and the newly created one (which didn't make hamster hang) are the lines from 'BEGIN:VTIMEZONE' up to and including 'END:VTIMEZONE'.

** Affects: hamster-applet (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Hamster applet chokes on tasks.ics
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/484110
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