Evolution forgets webcal passwords, and web calendars are not displayed on the gnome-clock-applet

[alpianon]

Binary package hint: evolution, evolution-data-server

evolution and evolution-data-server version 2.22.1.1-0ubuntu3
Ubuntu 8.04 - Hardy updates

Even after the fixing of bug #228794, evolution still forgets webcal passwords.

How to reproduce:
1) Open evolution
2) Subscribe to a web calendar and insert password with the "remember password" flag
3) Close evolution and reopen it
4) Evolution asks for the password again and again...
5) The clock applet do not display web calendars at all

This did not happen with evolution version 2.22.1-0ubuntu3 and evolution-data-server version 2.22.1-0ubuntu2 originally shipped with Hardy: evolution remembered webcal passwords and web calendars were displayed by the clock applet

[Christoffer Kjølbæk (ostehamster)]

I can confirm this bug.

[Christoffer Kjølbæk (ostehamster)]

I have just upgraded to Evolution 2.22.2-0ubuntu1.2 and evolution-data-server 2.22.2-0ubuntu1 and it still fails.

It seems that it tries to get the password from the keyring, but it isn't there:
e-data-server-ui-Message: Unable to find password(s) in keyring (Keyring reports: Ingen træf fundet)

And when you type the password and check the "Remember password" box, it fails to store the password in the keyring:
(evolution:12854): e-data-server-ui-CRITICAL **: ep_keyring_insert_password: assertion `user != NULL' failed

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for your bug report, that's known upstream, you can read about it on http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=509458

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

one task is enough there

[Phoenix (phoenix-dominion)]

The described workaround to put the username in the URL (webcal://username@server:/file) is working for me on hardy (proposed)

[Pausanias (pausanias)]

I can confirm this bug and the workaround works fine for me as well.

[Aldo Latino (aldolat)]

I confirm this bug: Evolution on Hardy does not remember the gcal password and continues to ask for password every time I open it.

[oss_test_launchpad (oss-test-launchpad)]

Is anyone going to report this upstream?

[oss_test_launchpad (oss-test-launchpad)]

Is anyone going to hand this over to the developers?

[Roshan George (roshan-george)]

I have had this problem. What I did was enter the password in the username field for the Web Calendar.

So the username field would be like this:-
username:password

[Phoenix (phoenix-dominion)]

Great, they decided to switch to keyring, where the reason was to not store the password cleartext in some file, but to have it encrypted - but it's now that much broken, that users are going to enter it in the frontend, where it is shown to anyone when show him your settings (or how to connect to the calendar).

This is not only a regression, this weakens security instead of strengthen it...

[Christoffer Kjølbæk (ostehamster)]

For me everything is broken now. Even if I try webcal://username:password@server:/file, I get an error in the console, saying that the keyring wasn't found.

That is if Evolution even starts up, and not crash with:
evolution: ../../src/xcb_lock.c:33: _XCBUnlockDisplay: Assertion `xcb_get_request_sent(dpy->xcb->connection) == dpy->request' failed

Just great :)

[TenLeftFingers (tenleftfingers)]

Roshan George's fix works for me on 2.26.

So for google calendar, URL is:
webcal://<username>@www.google.com/calendar/ical/.../.../basic.ics

Username is your password.

[CannyDuck (cannyduck)]

The username in the URL workaround just works for web calendars (webcal). If use are using caldav, the username is thrown away and is not present anymore after restart evolution or reopen the dialog.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the bug has been fixed upstream now

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

This bug has been fixed in the latest development version of Ubuntu - Karmic Koala.

[Kamil Páral (kamil.paral)]

What about providing the fix also for Ubuntu 9.04? Evolution is quite unusable without it.

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Since it doesn't qualify for a SRU (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#When) you might want to request the package to be backported (Version 2.26.3 is sufficient) . For instructions about that please follow "How to request new packages" at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports#request-new-packages. Thanks

[lars (lars-mehnen)]

to solve this isse ... just empty the callendar cache in the evolution directory