Google calendar support broken; repeatedly asks for password
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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evolution (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: evolution
Since Evolution 2.27 was replaced by 2.28 in Karmic, connecting to my Google calendars no longer works. Evo repeatedly asks for the password. Running it from command line shows the following 3 lines repeating themselves, every time Evo asks for the password and I enter it:
$ LC_ALL=C evolution
e-data-
e-data-
e-data-
e-data-
e-data-
e-data-
e-data-
e-data-
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Sep 25 19:23:50 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: evolution 2.28.0-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: evolution
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-10-generic i686
Changed in evolution (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
Changed in evolution (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
I can confirm. I tried deleting my Google calendars and re-adding them. When adding a calendar, Evolution prompts for a password to retrieve the list of calendars associated with the Google account. This part still works. However, once the calendar is selected, the repeated prompts for the password begin.
Workaround: Use CalDAV, as documented here: http:// www.google. com/support/ calendar/ bin/answer. py?hl=en& answer= 99358. Google doesn't have instructions specifically for Evolution but the instructions for Sunbird/iCal are fairly easily adapted for Evolution.
According to https:/ /bugzilla. gnome.org/ show_bug. cgi?id= 583374 it is intended that CalDAV replace the Google Calendar import. In fact, https:/ /bugzilla. gnome.org/ show_bug. cgi?id= 588856 indicates that code was committed in 2.27.5 to migrate Google Calendar accounts to CalDAV. So I guess the question is, why is this not working?