Re: [Orgmode] Unable to clock in on task

[Keith Lancaster]

That did it! The patch fixes the problem - it now handles all the  
dangling clocks and then clocks in correctly. Thanks!

Keith

On Oct 27, 2009, at 9:36 AM, Nick Dokos wrote:

> Phil Rooke <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Keith Lancaster <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> > > I updated to 6.32 this morning and am now unable to clock in on
> > > tasks. ...
> >
> > I too upgraded this morning and am also having problems clocking in
> > (using "I" on a task in the daily agenda).  My symptoms are  
> > different,
> > Emacs doesn't crash but I do consistently get the following:
> >
> > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp 126)
> >  expand-file-name(126)
> >  mapcar(expand-file-name "~/Documents/Org/org-agenda-files")
> >  org-files-list()
> >  org-resolve-clocks()
> >  byte-code....
> >  org-clock-in(nil)
> >  org-agenda-clock-in(nil)
> >  call-interactively(org-agenda-clock-in nil nil)
>
> This does look like a bug: org-resolve-clock calls org-files-list  
> which
> does not know about the "agenda files list in a file" convention.  It
> should probably call the function org-agenda-files instead of
> org-files-list. org-files-list is only used in this one place and  
> should
> probably be deleted.
>
> Try this patch:
>
> diff --git a/lisp/org-clock.el b/lisp/org-clock.el
> index ea23a8d..2ce2f22 100644
> --- a/lisp/org-clock.el
> +++ b/lisp/org-clock.el
> @@ -737,7 +737,7 @@ non-dangling (i.e., currently open and valid)  
> clocks."
>   (interactive "P")
>   (unless org-clock-resolving-clocks
>     (let ((org-clock-resolving-clocks t))
> -      (dolist (file (org-files-list))
> +      (dolist (file (org-agenda-files))
>         (let ((clocks (org-find-open-clocks file)))
>           (dolist (clock clocks)
>             (let ((dangling (or (not (org-clock-is-active))
>
> Thanks,
> Nick

Keith Lancaster
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