Bugzilla: System.FormatException in AppDelegate.cs:87

[trepidity]

Mike Cherry [reporter] 2015-04-21 14:30:30 UTC
Running a freshly compiled version from the current git repository as of April 21st, 2015

Application was crashing and Console was showing:

4/21/15 09:01:58.208 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (org.gnome.Tomboy.118460[80050]) Service exited with abnormal code: 1

This happens at line 87 in AppDelegate.cs:

NoteEngine = new Engine (noteStorage);

The issue occurred while trying to load 500+ GNote files from an old set of notes on a linux box. I was able to track it down to the following xml fields being blank in 19 of the .note files:

<create-date></create-date>
<last-change-date></last-change-date>
<last-metadata-change-date></last-metadata-change-date>

After some shell trickery to give them all the same date value (I used the value "2009-06-30T19:44:30.000000Z" from one of the working notes) everything works as expected.

Suggested fixes/improvements:

• Check for blank values in create-date, last-change-date, and last-metadata-change-date
• Use file creation date or other generated date to insure values are no longer blank

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=748250

[rashoodkhan]

I will look in to the issue this week, hopefully the fix should be pretty straight forward. @trepidity - I also fixed some stability bugs, please try out the new version and see if you are able to crash the application ;)