gnome-calendar fails to sync, update, or cache

[ethanay]

Not sure if this is three different bugs or three symptoms of the same problem, but I am observing three different problematic behaviors on a fresh 18.04.1 install with latest updates:

1. Failure to sync: I have all my online google accounts active, but the calendar does not seem to grab new events from the online database. Nor does it transmit new events to the online database. Nor does it do any of these things when manually selecting the "synchronize" option under the menu.

2. Failure to update: I cannot manually add new events to the calendar. Although the app appears fully interactive, none of my interactions (e.g., adding an event) seem to actually get entered into the calendar, even locally.

3. Failure to cache: I have many local calendars displayed that the calendar app has appeared to pick up from other applications' data. I try to manually remove them by opening the calendars display, clicking on the calendar and clicking "remove." This appears to remove the calendar from this menu, but it doesn't remove it from being displayable. When I close and re-open the application, the local calendars have reappeared. Also, I cannot permanently rename calendars. When I close the app and re-open it, the calendar name has reverted to its original state.

This might be related in part to another issue, where I have my UbuntuOne account active, but still get prompted regularly for my username and password from various programs.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: gnome-calendar 3.28.2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-29.31-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-29-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: kpatch_livepatch_Ubuntu_4_15_0_29_31_generic_42
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sat Sep 15 15:06:10 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-09-12 (2 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180725)
SourcePackage: gnome-calendar
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[ethanay (ethan-y-us)]

1. Renamed "calendar" folder under ~/.cache/evolution, and also the ~/.config/evolution and .local/share/evolution folders
2. rebooted. Then I
3. de-activated and re-activated "calendar" under each separate online account.
4. then I restarted Calendar app.

This appears to have fixed many of the issues described above. But has also produced a crash every time I modify a setting. These should be automatically reported as bugs.

[ethanay (ethan-y-us)]

Experiencing similar issues/behavior in other gnome office apps: contacts and todo list.

Contacts has actually given a useful error when trying to edit a google contact, but the error message disappears very quickly and cannot be copied or pasted. Attached is a screenshot.

This is all occurring on a fresh install. All I did was install the software, link my google accounts, and try to run the apps. For some reason, they are not self-configuring with the google accounts correctly.

?field.comment=Experiencing similar issues in other gnome office apps: contacts and todo list.

Contacts has actually given a useful error, but the error message disappears very quickly and cannot be copied or pasted. Attached is a screenshot.

This is all occurring on a fresh install. All I did was install the software, link my google accounts, and try to run the apps. For some reason, they are not self-configuring with the google accounts correctly.

[ethanay (ethan-y-us)]

I am renaming all "evolution" folders in ~.config ~.cache and ~.local/share to see if that fixes the behavior.

[ethanay (ethan-y-us)]

Renaming folders does not appear to resolve the issues. See bug 1793256 for potentially-related information.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Jesse Steele (jessesteele)]

18.04, for me, the native Calendar app synced in Online Accounts > Nextcloud after syncing it does not removed deleted events that were part of a recurring series.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. Do you still have those issues? Could you report them to the software writter directly on https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/issues ?

[ethanay (ethan-y-us)]

I have avoided using the calendar application as it has been too buggy to be usable, I will need to see if this issue still occurs.

Basically you are saying that it needs to be reported upstream?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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