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

[Svante Signell <srs kth se>]

On Tue, 2015-08-11 at 13:05 +0200, Milan Crha wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-08-11 at 12:01 +0200, Svante Signell wrote:
> > 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. 
>
>       Hi,
> that's interesting. How did you create the account then? Was it by
> restore from a different machine, where the GOA was available? 
> (Though
> see below).
>
> > Machine has been restarted already.
>
> I see. I would expect the Debian has the GOA and gnome-control-center
> available (it's sometimes packages as control-center, without the
> prefix "gnome-"). But I do not run Debian, thus I cannot tell.
>
> > The only hit by googling is https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/45394
>
> Aah, it references even the fix (kind of), and reports 3.16.4 has it
> fixed. They are right, the fix doesn't correct already broken 
> account,
> it "only" avoids breakage of newly created accounts, thus the 
> recreate
> of the account is needed.
>
> It also makes more sense to me now. I suppose you didn't use GOA at
> all, you entered your GMail account directly in the Evolution and
> ticked at the end of the New Account Wizard to create also the
> Contacts and possibly Calendars.

Yes, that's how I remember doing it.

> Just go to Edit->Preferences->Mail Accounts and delete the GMail
> account there. Then create it again, but do not let it create the
> Contacts. The Contacts require OAuth2 authentication, which evolution
> currently supports only through GOA.

I managed to install GOA, it does not depend on *systemd*, which gnome
-control-center do. Would removing and adding the gmail account work
fine then, goa version is 3.16.3-1?

> I do not think the roundtrip of adding the new account will be of any
> help if you'll still use the 3.16.3 though, as that will break the
> newly created account again.

I'll file a bug for 3.16.3 in Debian, so they hopefully upgrade to
3.16.4/5.

Thanks!