Comment 3 for bug 175795

Reproducible in gnome and xfce. I always use gconf as the backend.

I think it's probably specific to the google calendar. I think it happens in my case because I need to start/stop awn quite often sometimes when I'm working on something. I suspected in the past that this sometimes causes too many login attempts over a short period of time... assuming it does a login each time on startup. Other than that I think I have also seen the behavior when my connection was a bit flaky.

Tried it now... setup the prefs. saved the password. It worked.

Close awn, start back up.

My appearance preferences seem to be lost... that's back to default. Which is not normal - it only happens if I've been trying to enable calendar.

Some console spam. includes:
Creating new applet :/usr/local/bin/../lib/awn/applets/standalone-launcher.desktop uid:-62914564_1203429261
Login error: <type 'exceptions.TypeError'> object of type 'NoneType' has no len()
thread running
thread running
thread running
thread running
thread running
Login error: <type 'exceptions.TypeError'> object of type 'NoneType' has no len()
Thread terminating
Login error: <type 'exceptions.TypeError'> object of type 'NoneType' has no len()
Thread terminating
Login error: <type 'exceptions.TypeError'> object of type 'NoneType' has no len()
Thread terminating
Login error: <type 'exceptions.TypeError'> object of type 'NoneType' has no len()
Thread terminating
Login error: <type 'exceptions.TypeError'> object of type 'NoneType' has no len()
Thread terminating
Login error: <type 'exceptions.TypeError'> object of type 'NoneType' has no len()

which continues to spam... I don't normally see this spam so I'll assume it's from the clock :-)

It seems to be related to the save password feature. If I don't select that and let it popup a password prompt when I start the applet then all seems well... remembers my username and appearance preferences.

Hope this helps.