Webkit fails to login to Gmail
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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webkit2gtk (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I noticed this first in Evolution, when I tried to log into a Gmail account through its API.
1. The page containing the first Gmail prompt, for the username/email addresses, would take several minutes to load.
2. When it did load, after entering the username/email address and hitting next to move forward to the password prompt, it would again pause for several minutes and then fail (probably time-out) with the message from Google, "Something went wrong. Check your connection and try again."
This also happens when I try to login to Google through gnome-control-
I've been having intermittent failures due to IPv6 on 16.10, being unable to reach some sites because DNS would resolve them to IPv6 addresses, including Google. However, I tried disabling IPv6 through Wired Settings and this didn't change the behavior.
I only noticed this in the current version of Webkit2 because when Evolution changed to 3.22 from 3.18, when I switched from 16.04 to 16.10, it started using Webkit2 for Oauth authentication to Gmail. It may exist in earlier versions too.
While I was debugging this, webkit2gtk-
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
Package: libwebkit2gtk-
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-59-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu8.2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME-Classic:GNOME
Date: Thu Jan 19 15:10:27 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-01-12 (6 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 16.10 "Yakkety Yak" - Release amd64 (20161012.1)
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm-
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: webkit2gtk
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.