Re: [Evolution] Cannot connect to gmail account any longer

[Svante Signell <srs kth se>]

On Tue, 2015-08-11 at 11:21 +0200, Milan Crha wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-08-11 at 10:54 +0200, Svante Signell wrote:
> > Failed to connect to 'Contacts'
> > Cannot find a corresponding account in the org.gnome.OnlineAccounts
> > service from which to obtain a password for 'a b gmail com'
>
>       Hi,
> does the above not make sense? Maybe it's too tech-y, it's possible.
>
> Simply, you have configured your GMail account using GNOME Online
> Accounts (GOA, accessible in gnome-control-center).

I don't have gnome-control-center installed at all. And it cannot be
installed since it depends on gnome-settings-daemon which depends on
libpam-systemd. 

>  There happened
> something to your GOA settings and the created account in the
> evolution(-data-server) cannot find corresponding account in GOA.
> There can be couple reasons for it, from the goa-daemon not running,
> to some odd corner case like you made the update, but didn't restart
> all processes (ideally the whole machine), thus those background
> processes is a mix of old binaries and the new binaries.
>
> I'd suggest to restart the machine.

Machine has been restarted already.

> If the problem still persists, go
> to GOA settings and fix the GMail account there. If the account is 
> not
> there, or it is unrecoverably broken, delete it and enter a fresh new
> GMail account there. The restart should get rid of the orphaned GMail
> account from the evolution.

The only hit by googling is https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/45394