[Orgmode] Re: org-clock-in fails sometimes with prefix arg

[Carsten Dominik]

OK, thanks, I'll wait with actions for more info.

- Carsten

On Nov 20, 2008, at 3:40 PM, Bernt Hansen wrote:

> This happened again this morning.  I'm not (to my knowledge) actually
> using the org-clock-persistence stuff but it is active.  Again I  
> have an
> 'org' buffer which is a dired entry at the end of my clock history  
> list.
>
> I'm going to try a few things
>
>  - restart emacs and see if I can reproduce what causes this
>
>  - turn off the cock persistence settings and see if this problem goes
>    away (don't expect a report on that for at least a week)
>
> -Bernt
>
> Carsten Dominik <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Hi Bernt,
> >
> > are you saving clock information from session to session,
> > using org-clock-persistence-insinuate?
> >
> > - Carsten
> > On Nov 19, 2008, at 5:25 PM, Bernt Hansen wrote:
> >
> >    Hi Carsten,
> >
> >    I've run into this a few times today.  I don't have any useful  
> > insight
> >
> >    into how this occurs yet but I thought I'd mention it anyway.
> >
> >    My current org-clock-history looks like this:
> >
> >    ,----[ C-h v org-clock-history RET]
> >
> >    | org-clock-history is a variable defined in `org-clock.el'.
> >
> >    | Its value is
> >
> >    | (#<marker at 5990 in norang.org> #<marker at 42510 in  
> > norang.org> #
> >    <marker at 8870 in csp.org> #<marker at 6269 in org.org>  
> > #<marker at 5145
> >    in ciss.org> #<marker at 339 in org> #<marker at 1 in org>  
> > #<marker at
> >    10546 in csp.org> #<marker at 9659 in csp.org> #<marker at 10794  
> > in
> >    csp.org>)
> >
> >    |
> >
> >    |
> >
> >    |
> >
> >    | Documentation:
> >
> >    | List of marker pointing to recent clocked tasks.
> >
> >    `----
> >
> >    Somehow I am getting markers to read-only buffers in there
> >
> >    eg.    (#<marker at 1 in org>)
> >
> >    and this breaks C-u M-x org-clock-in which triggers the  
> > following error
> >
> >    in org-clock-select-task
> >
> >    ,----
> >
> >    | save-restriction: Buffer is read-only: #<buffer org>
> >
> >    `----
> >
> >    I'm not sure how I got these markers in the list
> >
> >    org-clock-select-task fails when it hits the read-only buffer.   
> > This org
> >
> >    buffer happens to be a directory (in dired I believe) of my ~/ 
> > git/org
> >
> >    directory.
> >
> >    As a workaround for now I'm just manually clearing the variable  
> > with
> >
> >    (setq org-clock-history nil)
> >
> >    to remove the markers and make this work again.
> >
> >    Regards,
> >
> >    Bernt
> >
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