[CalendarServer-users] Events disappearing with Calendar Server/iCal

Sun Jun 8 19:55:02 PDT 2008

Eric,

I'm guessing everyone's at WWDC, but have you received any info on or  
fixes for the issues you're having?

-Terry

On Jun 6, 2008, at 7:11 AM, System Admin wrote:

> Hi:
>
> We implemented Leopard Server w/ iCal server several months ago  
> across our organization (approx. 65 users). We have been running  
> server 10.5.2 although I upgraded it this morning to 10.5.3. The  
> majority of our clients are on 10.5.2 with a handful on 10.5.3.
>
> We have had one user’s calendar that has been “flaky” on and off  
> for the past several months meaning they stop receiving invitations  
> that others have sent them... and we have to clear out her inbox on  
> the calendar server (thus losing those notifications) and then it  
> starts working again. This has happened repeatedly for this  
> particular person and we’ve reported this bug to Apple.
>
> Yesterday she reported that in her other, scheduling calendar (we  
> have people who schedule events in which they don’t participate so  
> we have a separate “scheduling” calendar for these folks) she had  
> invited one of our consultants to a meeting with a client over a  
> month ago. She scheduled the meeting in the calendar while on the  
> phone with the consultant so we’re certain she did schedule the  
> meeting. She also moved around some travel on that same day to  
> accommodate the meeting. The invite never showed up in the  
> consultant’s calendar and the meeting with a client was missed (so  
> this is now a major issue). Upon examination in her calendar, the  
> meeting is not there at all and the travel is back to how it was  
> originally... as if she never changed it.
>
> This morning another user reports an event where several people  
> were invited several months ago and while the organizers calendar  
> indicates an attendee never responded, the particular attendee  
> never received the invitation.
>
> My conclusion is that we have widespread reliability issues with  
> iCal Server. I’m wondering if others are seeing similar issues or  
> have any thoughts as to what may be the issue.
>
> Additional info... turns out the user who has had ongoing calendar  
> issues had 73 notifications in her in iCal this morning when she  
> connected to the calendar. These go back to May 1st and she had  
> zero in there when she left last night. Obviously the 10.5.3 Server  
> upgrade has fixed something although I’m left wondering what it  
> didn’t fix.
>
> More additional info... when I check the error log for iCal server  
> there are two issues I notice. First, the access log at /var/log/ 
> caldavd/ is 6.59GB in size and the error.log is 4.54GB. When I  
> inspect the error log I see line after line of the following two  
> errors with a number of other errors interspersed every once in a  
> while. Does anyone have any idea why the iCal Server is throwing so  
> many errors... is this normal?!!?
>
> 2008-06-04 09:06:34-0400 [-] [caldav-8009]  [AMP,client] PROPFIND / 
> calendars/__uids__/B4B86476-5C1C-4BB9-A1CF-3CFB1B906853/ HTTP/1.1
> 2008-06-04 09:06:34-0400 [-] [caldav-8010]  [AMP,client]  
> Unauthenticated users not enabled with the 'calendar' SACL
> 2008-06-04 09:06:34-0400 [-] [caldav-8010]  [AMP,client] PROPFIND / 
> principals/__uids__/F8C67C04-48E2-432A-9B9D-24D18BC202C1/ HTTP/1.1
> 2008-06-04 09:06:34-0400 [-] [caldav-8009]  [AMP,client] PROPFIND / 
> calendars/__uids__/F8C67C04-48E2-432A-9B9D-24D18BC202C1/ HTTP/1.1
> 2008-06-04 09:06:34-0400 [-] [caldav-8010]  [AMP,client] PROPFIND / 
> calendars/__uids__/B4B86476-5C1C-4BB9-A1CF-3CFB1B906853/calendar/  
> HTTP/1.1
> 2008-06-04 09:06:34-0400 [-] [caldav-8011]  [AMP,client]  
> Unauthenticated users not enabled with the 'calendar' SACL
> 2008-06-04 09:06:34-0400 [-] [caldav-8011]  [AMP,client] PROPFIND / 
> principals/__uids__/07EF8794-D0E1-44C1-9370-7544C1C5F608/ HTTP/1.1
> 2008-06-04 09:06:34-0400 [-] [caldav-8011]  [AMP,client] PROPFIND / 
> calendars/__uids__/07EF8794-D0E1-44C1-9370-7544C1C5F608/ HTTP/1.1
> 2008-06-04 09:06:35-0400 [-] [caldav-8012]  [AMP,client]  
> Unauthenticated users not enabled with the 'calendar' SACL
> 2008-06-04 09:06:35-0400 [-] [caldav-8012]  [AMP,client] PROPFIND / 
> principals/__uids__/BE076FA2-028C-48FD-BFBC-C29242B0D74F/ HTTP/1.1
> 2008-06-04 09:06:35-0400 [-] [caldav-8012]  [AMP,client] PROPFIND / 
> calendars/__uids__/BE076FA2-028C-48FD-BFBC-C29242B0D74F/ HTTP/1.1
> 2008-06-04 09:06:35-0400 [-] [caldav-8013]  [AMP,client]  
> Unauthenticated users not enabled with the 'calendar' SACL
> 2008-06-04 09:06:35-0400 [-] [caldav-8013]  [AMP,client] PROPFIND / 
> principals/__uids__/C83849C2-CA7B-4A59-A7D7-07036146B7AB/ HTTP/1.1
> 2008-06-04 09:06:35-0400 [-] [caldav-8011]  [AMP,client] PROPFIND / 
> calendars/__uids__/07EF8794-D0E1-44C1-9370-7544C1C5F608/calendar/  
> HTTP/1.1
> 2008-06-04 09:06:35-0400 [-] [caldav-8010]  [AMP,client] PROPFIND / 
> calendars/__uids__/C83849C2-CA7B-4A59-A7D7-07036146B7AB/ HTTP/1.1
> 2008-06-04 09:06:35-0400 [-] [caldav-8013]  [AMP,client] REPORT / 
> calendars/__uids__/B4B86476-5C1C-4BB9-A1CF-3CFB1B906853/calendar/  
> HTTP/1.1
> 2008-06-04 09:06:35-0400 [-] [caldav-8009]  [AMP,client] PROPFIND / 
> calendars/__uids__/F8C67C04-48E2-432A-9B9D-24D18BC202C1/calendar/  
> HTTP/1.1
> 2008-06-04 09:06:35-0400 [-] [caldav-8014]  [AMP,client]  
> Unauthenticated users not enabled with the 'calendar' SACL
> 2008-06-04 09:06:35-0400 [-] [caldav-8014]  [AMP,client] PROPFIND / 
> principals/__uids__/65FB8273-1D21-47AD-9BC3-0E80984F5E1F/ HTTP/1.1
> 2008-06-04 09:06:35-0400 [-] [caldav-8014]  [AMP,client] PROPFIND / 
> calendars/__uids__/65FB8273-1D21-47AD-9BC3-0E80984F5E1F/ HTTP/1.1
> 2008-06-04 09:06:35-0400 [-] [caldav-8015]  [AMP,client]  
> Unauthenticated users not enabled with the 'calendar' SACL
> 2008-06-04 09:06:35-0400 [-] [caldav-8015]  [AMP,client] PROPFIND / 
> principals/__uids__/62D79FC5-762C-4AAA-A0EE-9797D7043EFE/ HTTP/1.1
>
> I’ll be talking to Apple again later today but any help or insight  
> would be much appreciated.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Eric Morrison
> Insigniam Performance®
> Catalyzing Breakthrough Results
> www.insigniam.com
> 1.610.667.7822
>
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