Re: [Evolution] Tasks Dissappear

["John T. Guthrie" <guthrie counterexample org>]

On Sat, 2004-05-22 at 16:22, Donald D Henson wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 15:05, Donald Henson wrote: 
> > On Sat, 2004-04-24 at 14:23, Donald Henson wrote: 
> > > (SuSE 9.0, Gnome 2.2.2, Evolution 1.4.6)
> > >
> > > When I try to enter a new task in either the task list or in the task
> > > list in the calendar view, as soon as I press either the 'Enter' key or
> > > the 'Tab' key, the task info disappears. I have the option "Hide
> > > completed tasks after 1 day" set but that shouldn't affect future tasks.
> > > I searched Bugzilla and couldn't find anything similar so I am assuming
> > > that I'm doing something obvious (to others) and/or stupid.
> > >
> > > Has anyone had this or a similar problem? Can you point me in the
> > > direction to solve this problem? Any assistance/suggestions appreciated.
> > >
> > > Don Henson
> >
> > More data. I had occasion to reboot my system (I know. I know.).
> > After booting was complete, the tasks that I had entered earlier,
> > which had not shown up in the task list, now magically showed up.
> > However, when I tried to enter more tasks, they did NOT show up.
> > This has got to be a major clue but why am I the only one with it?
> > As before, any assistance will be appreciated.
> >
> > Don Henson
> Just to finish this off, the problem described above went away after a
> fresh install of SuSE 9.1. I just have to be more careful of what
> kinds of updates I do in the future.
>
> Don Henson

I was having this issue with one of my task folders.  What I did to fix
it was I shut down evolution, then ran

evolution --force-shutdown

on the command line, to really get all evolution components down, then I
restarted evolution, and everything seemed to work properly again.

Hope this helps.

-- 
John Guthrie
guthrie counterexample org