gnome-calendar does not sync with Google Calendar

[Nicolás Abel Carbone]

Since upgrading to 20.04dev, gnome-calendar doesn't show the events in my Google Calendar.
Online accounts is activated and, for example, gnome-contacts does show the contacts I have in Google.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: gnome-calendar 3.36.0-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-14.17-generic 5.4.18
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-14-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu20
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Wed Mar 11 09:47:25 2020
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-02-23 (746 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Alpha amd64 (20180222)
SourcePackage: gnome-calendar
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2020-03-01 (9 days ago)

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

I'm not seeing that problem here as an item that I changed elsewhere earlier today does show in its revised form in gnome-calendar.

Does "Synchronise Calendars" on the "Manage on your calendars" menu help to resolve the issue?

FWIW, while composing this reply I changed an item in Google Calendar, clicked on "Synchronize Calendars" and the amended details were displayed immediately.

[Nicolás Abel Carbone (nicocarbone)]

I tried that to no avail. I don't see any event at all on gnome-calendar despite having many in my google account.
I also tried logout and then login on Online Accounts in gnome-settings, but calendar is still empty.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Jeffrey Bouter (jbouter)]

I'm having the same issue, on 20.04, but then with my Nextcloud calendars. It worked on 3.35.9, but no longer on 3.36

[Tri Hartanto (threetopia)]

My Goole calendar stop sync after doing latest update with evolution-data-server - 3.36.1-2.
The account not appear in gnome-calendar and invoke the sync manually seems doesn't help. The gnome calendar applet also not showing the event.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. Those who have sync issues still, could you report them upstream on https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/iputils/+bug/1877030 ?

@Tri, the issue you describe sounds different, could you report a new bug?

[Timothy E. Hall (haloway13)]

Same issue here. What is the best way o can help get this resolved?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

sorry, the url copied in the previous comment should have been https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/issues

[DaniHaze (danihaze)]

I confirm the same occurs to me on 20.04... At the beginning I could see the calendars, but after some update or installation, they are gone now. I tried syncing, rebooting, remove and re-link online accounts and nothing...

[Richard Elkins (texadactyl)]

It happened to me too. Then, I discovered that my login to my google acct had "expired" (how does that happen?). I logged in again and then created a test event which got synced within one minute.

If you are looking at an Android phone/tablet that is not receiving the event that you created on Gnome, I suggest checking calendar.google.com. I've also had issues with my phone syncing with on-line for unknown causes, usually just delayed.

[Allex Valerio Costa (allex.costa)]

same issue here.

[Binod Shrestha (kaala)]

Same issue here. I can't see any new or updated events in calendar.

[John Dixon (jhncondix)]

Same here. Connected to google account. No sync with gnome calendar. Ubuntu 20.04.1.

[Bernardo M. S. Oliveira (uamoti)]

I've just updated from 18.04.5 to 20.04.1 and the calendar stopped working - none of my calendars are showing up.
This seems to be another snap-related issue, as the apt installation (version 3.36.2) works fine. I tried removing and reinstalling the snap (version 3.30.0) but it didn't help.

[Mayank Dedhia (mayankdedhia)]

I couldn't locate manual sync option. I'm on Ubuntu 20.04.1 and having gnome-calendar 3.36.2-0ubuntu1

[mikefreeman (mike-freeman-studio)]

Same here. Using the apt-installed version (3.36.2). It seems to connect intermittently. Some days it works fine, other days, it doesn't even acknowledge that any of my Google calendars exist, with nothing in the calendar menu and Manage Calendars window except the default locally-stored file. The other day, it was blank. I left it sitting there for a few minutes and suddenly my Google calendars appeared. Yesterday, it was showing the Google calendars all day without problems. Today, it was blank again. I left it sitting for quite a while, and it's still blank. So it's really very random.

[mikefreeman (mike-freeman-studio)]

The same thing also happens with Flatpak version 3.38.2

[I'M YourOnly.One 🔏 (techmagus)]

I'm not sure if this will be of any help with debugging.

Before I installed gnome-calendar (it's not installed by default when I did a fresh minimal install of 20.04 last December 2020), Focal's Panel Calendar was showing the data from Google Calendar.

However, after I installed gnome-calendar yesterday (Feb 12), that's when the system stopped showing anything from Google Calendar.

I tried the following:
* snap version
* apt version
* flatpak version

I also uninstalled (and also purged in the case of apt) gnome-calendar but the system will no longer show anything from Google Calendar regardless of how many times I re-added my Google account via Online Accounts of Focal as well as logged-out and rebooted.

At least from my experience, it seems that gnome-calendar changed something deep which messed the whole system in 20.04 since the Panel Calendar only stopped working after I installed gnome-calendar.

I hope it helps somehow.

Shalom.

[Chris Thompson (chris-thompson)]

Also on 21.10 sync does not work

[Christian Weiske (cweiske)]

I'm on Ubuntu 20.04 with gnome-calendar 3.36.2 and have the same problem: Google calendar did not sync.
Then I removed the cache in "~/.cache/evolution/calendar/", and gnome calendar showed no appointments at all (as expected).

Clicking the "sync now" menu item changed the calendar icon briefly to a checkmark, but "journalctrl -f" said:

> Feb 08 13:28:20 sybo gnome-calendar[17021]: Error synchronizing client
> Feb 08 13:28:20 sybo gnome-calendar[17021]: Error synchronizing client
> Feb 08 13:28:20 sybo gnome-calendar[17021]: Error synchronizing client

for every calendar, enabled or not.

[drx (drx)]

Ubuntu 22.04 and Google calendar stops syncing after a few days.

[Iñigo (iec989)]

Same issue as drx - after upgrading to 22.04, the Google calendar stopped syncing. Any way to solve it?

[Lorenzo Bettini (bettini)]

Couldn't it be you just hit the limit imposed by Google? Trying again later helped in my case