Calendar Authentication requests password in Ubuntu 12.10 and 13.10

[JCortez]

I just upgraded from Ubuntu 12.04 to 12.10. After I restarted with the new version of Ubuntu a window shows up very often asking for a password. The title of the window is "Calendar Authentication Request". The text withing the window says something like "Please enter your password for calendar 'nameofcalendar' user:<email address hidden> host:www.google.com".

I don't remember having configured my gmail calendar to work offline. Maybe I did, I want this message to stop showing up as it is EXTREMELY ANNOYING.

I have uninstall Evolution. I even removed the directory at ~/.local/share/evolution, but the window still shows up.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Scott (scott-l-barlow)]

This is extremely annoying. I can't seen to find anything about this on the web. Searching google for:
ubuntu "calendar authentication request" leads to only this bug report...

Is there anything I can do? I think I know what caused this. I used to have the calendar webapp (in 12.04) and then decided to stop using it. I also turned on the gmail settings for two-step verification. Immediately after doing that, I started to get this pop-up every single time I restart my computer! Very annoying.

Even after upgrading to 12.10, this still happens. I even went and re-installed the webapp and connected using the two step verification, but this pop-up still persists...

[joshiss (joshiss)]

This is affecting me in ubuntu 13.10 alpha 2, popping up again and again and not allowing any application to be worked on till i cancel it

[Alexander Langanke (alexlanganke)]

Am having the same Problem on an up-to-date 13.10

[joshiss (joshiss)]

I found one thread which says following

go to alt-f2
run gconf-editor
go to apps/evolution/calendar/notify

unselect notify with tray

i did this but not yet restarted the computer so the pop ups are still annoying me let me try restarting ubuntu

[joshiss (joshiss)]

I am crossing my fingures but no pop up as yet

[Scott (scott-l-barlow)]

Hm, I'm on 12.10 and I don't see these options. I search gconf-editor for "notify" and it found nothing. I searched for "calendar" and it found 3 entries, but none had any sort of notify/tray/etc value to set. Maybe I can find something else within gconf-editor though....hm...

[Scott (scott-l-barlow)]

Hm...then I remember that one thing I did to try solving the problem before was un-installing evolution. So I re-installed it and now that checkbox IS there. However, after un-checking it and restarting my computer, the notification still comes up :(

Sigh

It never "randomly" comes up for it. It ALWAYS comes up when I restart my computer. After cancelling it, it never comes up again until I restart the computer. That's why I ignored it for so long, but I just can't anymore. Too annoying.

[Scott (scott-l-barlow)]

Errr....I don't know why I've kept saying 12.10, I'm actually running 13.04! Sorry for any confusion. Regardless, I still have this problem after trying any other solutions I could come up with tonight

[Brian Galey (bkgaley)]

I ran in to this problem as well after a recent upgrade to 13.10. Removing the pertinent calendar config file from ~/.config/evolution/sources/ fixed the issue for me. There are likely multiple configuration files in that directory so you will have to determine which specific calendar is causing the problem for you.

[Scott (scott-l-barlow)]

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you! That works! So relieving.

[André F. Rendeiro (afrendeiro)]

It persists on 13.10 after official release (17.10.13).
rm ~/.config/evolution/sources/* works though after logout/login.

[Carlos De Matos (cmdematos-gmail)]

Fix at comment #12 did not work for me.

sudo apt-get purge evolution-data-server did.

[ScarySquirrel (coproc-sbcglobal)]

Remove all of the unneeded authentication prompts from your
~/.config/evolution/sources/
folder.

That worked for me.

What's putting them in there, in the first place?

What causes this?

[ScarySquirrel (coproc-sbcglobal)]

I'm fine with Evolution authenticating to my gmail account, I'm just not so thrilled with twenty prompts for my password.

[ScarySquirrel (coproc-sbcglobal)]

sudo apt-get purge evolution-data-server
worked for me, as well, although it removed some features of gnome3.

[zetha (zetha)]

I have Ubuntu 12.04 and this is indeed very annoying.
Run gconf-editor and uncheck notify with tray doesn't work for me.
There is no ~/.config/evolution/sources/ folder to delete.
I don't want to run sudo apt-get purge evolution-data-server because i use Evolution.
Any help please ?