Google calendar type and contact list type missing

[Captain Chaos]

Binary package hint: evolution

I just installed the Maverick Meerkat beta and installed all the latest updates, and I noticed that in Evolution the Google calendar type and contact list type are missing.

In Lucid I had been able to add my Google Calendar to Evolution, as well as my Google contact list, but in Maverick, when I select New -> Address Book or New -> Calendar, the Google type is missing from the Type drop down box.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: evolution 2.30.3-1ubuntu6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Oct 3 20:29:33 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evolution
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release Candidate amd64 (20100928)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evolution

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

not confirming the issue here in Maverick evolution 2.30.3-1ubuntu6

[Captain Chaos (launchpad-chaos)]

OK, this is bizarre. On my system the Google choices are there now too...

In fact, a few choices have suddenly appeared which definitely weren't there previously.

New Address Book previously had just:

On This Computer
On LDAP Servers

And now it has:

On This Computer
On LDAP Servers
WebDAV
Google
CouchDB

And New Calendar previously had just:

On This Computer
On The Web

And now it has:

On This Computer
On The Web
Weather
Google
CalDAV

So it's not just Google which had been missing. I have no idea why the choices suddenly reappeared, but possibly it had to do with the fact that I had not rebooted after installing all the latest updates (the Update Manager did not say I had to). Maybe some update only kicked in after the reboot.

So there's definitely something going on, although apparently it's fixed after installing all updates and rebooting. I'll see if I can reproduce this by installing the beta again.

[Captain Chaos (launchpad-chaos)]

I reinstalled the beta from the same ISO (once again choosing to install updates during the installation process), and this time the Google choices were there from the start.

The Google choices definitely were missing the first time. Also, the first time the default address book which had been created automatically by Evolution was of type "On This Computer", but the second time it was of type "CouchDB", so something is definitely going on.

[Captain Chaos (launchpad-chaos)]

Well, I tried reinstalling from the same ISO once again, this time without installing updates during the installation process, and once again the Google choices were there from the start. It seems I can't reproduce this any more. Strange.

Maybe something didn't get installed or initialized correctly the first time due to some external reason, perhaps a timing issue or something to do with network connectivity.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Works fine here as well, cannot reproduce.

[Paco Avila (monkiki)]

From a clean install of Ubuntu 10.10 I can't see "Google" nor "CalDAV" when creating a new Calendar. Evolution 2.30.3. Maybe I need any other package?

[Captain Chaos (launchpad-chaos)]

@Paco: For me the Google choice appeared after installing the latest updates and rebooting. Does that fix it for you?

[Paco Avila (monkiki)]

@Captain Yes, after reboot I have also the Google Calendar choice available. Fixed also for me.

[Captain Chaos (launchpad-chaos)]

I have just now been able to reproduce this bug by installing Ubuntu 10.10 from scratch from the ISO (the gold version this time, not the beta). Once again the Google options (and a few more) were missing just after the install. I have attached a screenshot showing the problem.

Once again the Google options appeared after installing updates (I'm not sure that's relevant though as there were only a few and none related to Evolution as far as I could see) and rebooting. I installed in a VirtualBox VM (which explains the two mouse cursors in the screenshot), but I don't think that's a contributing factor since I assume Paco Avila did not install in a VM.

[Paco Avila (monkiki)]

@Capital: Well assumed, I installed Ubuntu 10.10 in real hardware.

[Iuri Diniz (iuridiniz)]

Seems that the first time evolution is started, google calendar is missing, after quit and reopen google calendar is not more missing.

Yes, It's a bug, but not blocker

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release - Oneiric Ocelot. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next release of Ubuntu. You can find out more about the development release at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ . Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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[Martin Ringwelski (ub-mkrtdn-b6)]

I have the same problem. I use Ubuntu 12.04.
So I had Ubuntu installed and had the Google Calendar and Contacts. Then I wanted to try the beta Version of 12.10 which didn't work out. That's why I reinstalled Ubuntu 12.04 and kept my home partition. After reinstall I have google contacts, but no google calendar and installing updates, rebooting and whatsoever has no effect. I also allready deleted all evolution files I found (in .local, .gconf, .config), but I probably didn't find all, 'cause after starting evolution again my accounts where still there, but google calendar didn't apear.