Ubuntu
evolution-data-server package

eds keeps prompting me for calendar passwords

Bug #884933 reported by Tim Cole
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This bug affects 4 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
evolution-data-server (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
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Bug Description

EDS keeps popping up dialogs asking me for passwords for my Google calendars, even though I checked "remember password", and the actual password appears to be filled in. I checked via wireshark and I'm not experiencing any authentication failures either, so there's absolutely no reason to keep asking me. This is driving me crazy because the dialogs are popping up in clusters every few minutes, and there's nothing I can do to make them stop popping up.

lsb_release -rd:
Description: Ubuntu 11.10
Release: 11.10

apt-cache policy evolution-data-server:
evolution-data-server:
  Installed: 3.2.0-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 3.2.0-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 3.2.0-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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Tim Cole (tcole) wrote :

Killing e-calendar-factory seems to stop the dialogs from popping up once they start.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in evolution-data-server (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Kuba Wroniecki (wroniasty) wrote :

One the password dialog for google-calendats pops up, the IMAP access to gmail seems to get blocked and must be unblocked via the google "captcha" page. ( https://mail.google.com/accounts/DisplayUnlockCaptcha )

description: updated
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mabawsa (mabawsa) wrote :

This bug is driving me nuts, I am thinking of switching to Tbird

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Tristan Schmelcher (tschmelcher) wrote :

Doing the unlock captcha seemed to help for me. It stopped the dialogs and seemed to restore access to the Google calendar in Evolution. The current link is https://www.google.com/accounts/UnlockCaptcha.

Would be nice if Evolution could display a message suggesting users to try the unlock captcha. Although OTOH, it must have done something wrong to cause the IMAP access to be blocked in the first place.

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iMac (imac-netstatz) wrote :

Sounds like a duplicate of https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution-data-server/+bug/854232.

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