Thunderbird no longer displays Google Calendar

[Rainer Rohde]

This seems to have been happening since Thunderbird 15.0: Even though I have Lightning (1.7b3) and Provider for Google Calendar (0.13) add-ons installed, and the correct ICS address for my Google Calendar entered, I am unable to see the calendar.

This used to work just fine until recently...

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: thunderbird 15.0~b1+build1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-7.7-generic 3.5.0
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-7-generic x86_64
AddonCompatCheckDisabled: False
ApportVersion: 2.4-0ubuntu6
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: rrohde 2247 F.... pulseaudio
BuildID: 20120724152304
Channel: Unavailable
CurrentDmesg: Error: command ['sh', '-c', 'dmesg | comm -13 --nocheck-order /var/log/dmesg -'] failed with exit code 1: comm: /var/log/dmesg: No such file or directory
Date: Thu Aug 2 15:47:53 2012
ForcedLayersAccel: False
IfupdownConfig:
 auto lo
 iface lo inet loopback
IpRoute:
 default via 172.25.128.1 dev eth0 proto static
 10.42.0.0/24 dev wlan0 proto kernel scope link src 10.42.0.1 metric 9
 169.254.0.0/16 dev eth0 scope link metric 1000
 172.25.128.0/22 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 172.25.129.117 metric 1
NoProfiles: True
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PulseList: Error: command ['pacmd', 'list'] failed with exit code 1: No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon.
RunningIncompatibleAddons: False
SourcePackage: thunderbird
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
WifiSyslog:

dmi.bios.date: 02/20/2012
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A10
dmi.board.name: 00WW5M
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A00
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: 0.1
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA10:bd02/20/2012:svnDellInc.:pnDellSystemXPS15Z:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn00WW5M:rvrA00:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr0.1:
dmi.product.name: Dell System XPS 15Z
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.

[Pleione (oryen-gael)]

I had the same problem, and found out that the trouble was in google provider.
I had google provider version 0.13 and manualy upgraded it to newer 0.16 version and it worked - google calendar is now showing in thuderbird and syncing.
Just for the record - be sure to put private xml address form google to the field location in thunderbird.
Hope this helps.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[S. Christian Collins (s-chriscollins)]

I had the same problem, and I discovered that this was because a locally-installed copy of the Google Provider plugin was installed in addition to the package "xul-ext-gdata-provider". The local version was version 0.13 while the Ubuntu package was at 0.16. However, the local version of a plugin is given priority by Thunderbird, so it was using version 0.13. The solution: click the "Remove" button for the Google Provider plugin and restart Thunderbird. You should now be using the version supplied by your package manager (0.16). You can tell which plugins are provided by the package manager, because they will not have a "Remove" option.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

As people have been mentioning, this is most likely due to a locally installed Google Calendar provider in addition to having xul-ext-gdata-provider installed. The locally installed addon with take precedence, so if you remove that, you should be up to date.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for lightning-extension (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]