gnome-calendar cannot add credentialed web ics calendars

[Erich Eickmeyer]

Upon attempting to add a calendar from outlook.com, I was greeted with a username/password dialog box. So, I entered my username (an email address in this case) and an app password I generated since I have two-factor authentication. The dialog box would go away, but the calendar would not be added.

It seems as though the username/password dialog box takes the input, but then the "Add" button fails to become active. Reproducible every time.

The only workaround was to add the calendar using Evolution, which properly accepted the username/app-password and added the calendar. Unfortunately, at that point, I discovered bug #1825227.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.04
Package: gnome-calendar 3.32.0-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.0.0-13.14-generic 5.0.6
Uname: Linux 5.0.0-13-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu27
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Wed Apr 17 11:39:29 2019
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-04-15 (2 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 19.04 "Disco Dingo" - Alpha amd64 (20190413.2)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-calendar
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. Can you add the journalctl log from the session where you add the issue?
(or remove the calendar, start gnome-calendar from a command line, try to add the ics and copy any warning/error which is printed out)

[Erich Eickmeyer (eeickmeyer)]

Sadly, there is nothing in the terminal output or in journalctl. It seems as though the username/password dialog box takes the input, but then the "Add" button fails to become active. Reproducible every time.

[Tom Reynolds (tomreyn)]

I think the other bug report you meant to point to is actually bug #1825227.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[ausnahmefehler (ausnahmefehler)]

This affects me too. I am on ubuntu 18.04 lts. Trying to add a caldav url to gnome-calender, the app doesnt let me push the button "add", although I am pretty sure the url is correct.
My caldav provider is www.posteo.de

[pragomer (pragomer)]

The same problem here with Ubuntu 18.04. Pushing the "Add" button after giving a caldav address to the gnome-calender isnt possible.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

could you report it upstream on https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/issues ?

[Erich Eickmeyer (eeickmeyer)]

@tomreyn Yes, you are correct. Fixed as such.

[Erich Eickmeyer (eeickmeyer)]

@seb128 I thought I already had? Maybe that was the other bug. Either way, will do and will link here.

[Erich Eickmeyer (eeickmeyer)]

@seb128 Sorry for the noise, but looks like someone else discovered it as well.

[Erich Eickmeyer (eeickmeyer)]

Closing as fix released since this was fixed around the time of Gnome 3.34.