Re: Unable to clock in on task

[Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>]

Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> writes:

> Keith Lancaster <klancaster1957@acm.org> wrote:
>
>> I updated to 6.32 this morning and am now unable to clock in on
>> tasks. At first, there was an issue with an org file having a dangling
>> clock- 
>> in. When I attempted to log in to a task, it alerted me to the
>> dangling task. No matter how I answered (cancel, etc), Emacs crashed.
>> I then fixed the dangling clock in question and tried again. Now,
>> emacs crashed immediately without displaying a menu. I am guessing
>> that the issue is still related to a dangling clock-in, but cannot be
>> sure. Is there a way to disable the clock-checking feature? I'm on
>> emacs 23 cocoa on Snow Leopard.
>> 
>
> The culprit must be the "emacs 23 cocoa on Snow Leopard" part.
> It works fine (in the sense that "it does not lead to emacs crashes") on
> Linux:
>
>    Org-mode version 6.32 (release_6.32.8.g9077)
>    GNU Emacs 23.1.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.9) of 2009-10-13 on gamaville.dokosmarshall.org
>
> I don't clock much (maybe one of these years, when I find the time...
> the usual excuse of the procrastinator :-), so I'm not sure how things
> are supposed to work. I tried to clock in a task from the agenda (using
> I), I get a "dangling clock" message, I select cancel and everything is
> fine.  I then clock out and the clock gets updated appropriately. I then
> clock in again and get another dangling clock warning (with ~120000 mins
> on it).  After doing it a few times on a couple of different items, I
> don't get the dangling messages any more either. I guess all the clocks I had
> started way back when, when I was playing with clocks, and had not closed,
> were found, dealt with, and now I'm all set - maybe.
>
> If anything is really wrong, I'm sure we'll get an earful when Bernt
> (aka the king of clocking) upgrades !-)

Eeek!  I have an official title? :D

I upgraded this morning and clocking works fine for me (again in Linux)
but I'm on GNU Emacs 22.2.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.11) of
2008-11-09 on raven, modified by Debian.  Org-mode version 6.32
(release_6.32.dirty)

I don't currently use the clock resolution functionality but plan to
play with it soon. (I currently have no open clock entries except the
task I'm clocking right now).

-Bernt