Bug 25117

Summary:	Kalarm recurring alarms are being executed one time less than set
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Werner Brinkmann <mail>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	KDE maintainers <kde>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	lewyssmith, marja11, wbr
Version:	8	Keywords:	UPSTREAM
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	kalarm-19.04.0-1.mga7.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Werner Brinkmann 2019-07-13 00:33:41 CEST

Description of problem:
If I set an alarm in kalarm which should recur every x hours and set "End after 4 occurences" than this alarm will occur only 3 times.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
19.04.0

How reproducible:
Each time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. set recurring alarm
2. set number of occurrences
3. count occurrences

By the way, the german translation is misleading. Where in the english version it says "End after x occurrences" in german it says "Wiederholung endet nach x Wiederholungen" which would translate to "End after x REcurrences" which would lead one to believe that an alarm where you enter a 4 here would be executed five times, the original alarm plus 4 recurrences.

As a sidenote: I found it strange that drakrpm and "rpm -qif /usr/bin/kalarm" give me version 19.04.0 for kalarm but looking up "Help" "About KAlarm" it shows: "Version 2.12.2".

Enough nitpicking now.

Marja Van Waes 2019-07-13 17:55:50 CEST

CC: (none) => marja11
Assignee: bugsquad => kde

Comment 1 Lewis Smith 2020-12-17 10:07:05 CET

Came across this elderly bug by chance. Sorry for overlooking it. It looks an upstream affair unless we know that the same version of Kalarm behaves better on another distribution. I will try Mageia 8 to see.

Kalarm 2.12.2, kalarm-19.04.0-1.mga7
I confirm this, indeed sometimes it seemed to loose 2 repetitions. Perhaps due to a need to cancel a reminder to see the next occurrence?
But you ask for 3, cancel them on display, you only see 2.

Summary: recurring alarms are beeing executed one time less than set => Kalarm recurring alarms are being executed one time less than set
CC: (none) => lewyssmith

Comment 2 Lewis Smith 2020-12-17 12:22:35 CET

Same problem on M8: kalarm-20.12.0-1.mga8
It seems to repeat one less time than it should; I have not the time to explore when the alarm disappears from the list: either after the n-1 display, or when not displaying the n'th.
I also suspect that if you do not dismiss an alarm alert, the next occurrence does not show. If you define a frequent sequence and go away, on return you see just the first popup, not the whole lot. No time to re-test this!

@Werner
Have you asked about this on a KDE forum?

Keywords: (none) => UPSTREAM

Comment 3 Werner Brinkmann 2020-12-17 12:48:35 CET

@Lewis
No, I didn't.

Comment 4 Aurelien Oudelet 2021-07-06 13:14:10 CEST

Mageia 7 is EOL since July 1st 2021.
There will not have any further bugfix for this release.

You are encouraged to upgrade to Mageia 8 as soon as possible.

@reporter, if this bug still apply with Mageia 8, please let us know it.

@packager, if you work on the Mageia 7 version of your package, please check the Mageia 8 package if issue is also present. In this case, please fix the Mageia 8 version instead.

This bug report will be closed OLD if there is no further notice within 1st September 2021.

Comment 5 Werner Brinkmann 2021-07-06 14:15:19 CEST

The bug still exists as described two years ago, including misleading german usage of "Wiederholung".
This is with KAlarm 3.1.0 (KDE Apps 20.12.0) on Mageia 8.

CC: (none) => wbr

Marja Van Waes 2021-07-06 16:41:15 CEST

Version: 7 => 8