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Lots of warnings on ikhal startup

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Description

Upon starting ikhal, the terminal is filled with warnings in the form of:

Unknown exception happened.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/khal/khalendar/khalendar.py", line 330, in _update_vevent
    update(event.raw, href=href, etag=etag, calendar=calendar)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/khal/khalendar/backend.py", line 214, in update
    ical = utils.cal_from_ics(vevent_str)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/khal/utils.py", line 665, in cal_from_ics
    return cal
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'cal' referenced before assignment
warning: Skipping <calendar-name-redacted>/<uui-redacted>1.ics: local variable 'cal' referenced before assignment
warning: This event will not be available in khal.

printing them all takes some time, so startup of the interface is largely delayed.

I'm on khal 0.10.1

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Start by reproducing the warnings during ikhal startup and inspect khal/khalendar/utils.py, especially cal_from_ics around the reported line. Trace how the failure propagates through khal/khalendar/backend.py and khalendar.py; done means startup no longer spends substantial time printing repeated warnings and affected events have a defined outcome.

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Tech stack
python
Domain
cli
Issue type
Bug
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Estimated time
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Stale
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Newbie friendliness
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