UbuntuOne account plugin does not work

[Michał Sawicz]

When ubuntuone-credentials-common is installed, the Ubuntu One account is listed under the possible account types in gnome-control-center, but upon opening only a grey page is visible and errors are reported:

(unity-control-center:22553): account-plugin-WARNING **: ap_client_load_plugin: module /usr/lib/libaccount-plugin-1.0/providers/libubuntuone.so not found: /usr/lib/libaccount-plugin-1.0/providers/libubuntuone.so: nie można otworzyć pliku obiektu dzielonego: Nie ma takiego pliku ani katalogu

(unity-control-center:22553): credentials-cc-panel-CRITICAL **: cc-credentials-authorization-page.vala:54: No valid plugin found for provider ubuntuone

What's more, it's currently possible to remove account-plugin-ubuntuone, but that doesn't remove the -common package above, so the account type is still listed as available.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: unity-control-center-signon 0.1.7~+14.04.20140211.2-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-12.19-generic 3.11.3
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-12-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia wl
ApportVersion: 2.13.2-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Tue Mar 4 11:30:18 2014
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center-signon
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

I'm struggling to find any package that provides /usr/lib/libaccount-plugin-1.0/providers/libubuntuone.so in xenial - is it still in the archive?

[Alberto Mardegan (mardy)]

AFAICR, creating the U1 account from the Unity control center has never been possible. The reason why the software is complaining about the missing libubuntuone.so module is because by default when we want to create an account for the provider <X> we load the lib<X>.so module.
My guess is that the ubuntuone.provider file was added to ubuntuone-credentials-common because of the phone.

As I can see it, the possible solutions are:
1) Find some packaging tricks so that ubuntuone.provider is installed only on phone images
2) The unity-control-center-signon should check for the existance of the plugins before showing the providers as available

I think that for the convergence story, where you have both unity7 and unity8 installed on the same machine, fixing (2) is absolutely a must.

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

What would it take to make this work, i.e. to be able to create an Ubuntu One account from the control center? I'd like to do this if it's not too hard. How did the old Ubuntu One support work (e.g. Shotwell) - did it use the control center or something else?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-control-center-signon - 0.1.8+16.04.20151208-0ubuntu1

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gnome-control-center-signon (0.1.8+16.04.20151208-0ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=medium

  [ Alberto Mardegan ]
  * On account creation, filter out providers without valid plugins from the
    providers list (LP: #1287640)

  [ CI Train Bot ]
  * No-change rebuild.

 -- David Barth <email address hidden> Tue, 08 Dec 2015 13:59:09 +0000