Online Accounts - Gmail Password Unexpectedly Fails [closed]

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SOLVED! (At least for me...)

FranciscoD_ spotted Gnome bug #735311 related to authentication, and it turned out to be exactly the problem I was experiencing. Kudos to him for catching that.

Fedora have since released the necessary fix to fedora updates, starting with evolution-data-server-3.10.4-5.fc20.$ARCH, so anyone experiencing this problem should just update their system through the normal channels. I've taken down my builds, as they're no longer needed.

Previous Update

After discovering that e-d-s-3.12.5 (the F21 version which received that bugfix) won't build under F20, I backported the fix to F20's current e-d-s-3.10.4 — which wasn't hard, as the patch applied cleanly with a little bit of extra fuzz — and built myself a new evolution-data-server-3.10.4-4.

After installing the update and logging out/in, this issue completely cleared up. No more password prompts on Shell start, and my Gnome Calendar data is once again appearing in both the Shell titlebar calendar and in Evolution! (Don't forget to also reenable Calendar in Online Accounts, before logging out.)

I'll report this to the Gnome and Fedora folks and see if they can gin up new official builds, but in the meantime anyone's welcome to my fixes: [REMOVED]

Original Discussion

The issue is with Google Calendar, specifically.

I also am not using two-factor authentication, but I've been plagued by password-entry dialogs for at least a week or two. Earlier tonight I went through most of the same troubleshooting steps that torvum did, with the same lack of success.

(I even went one step further and ended up dbus-monitor-ing a restart of Gnome Shell, to see what I could see when the password entry dialog popped back up again — since I log in to a lot of services using my gmail email address, I was trying to determine more concretely just which of those many logins, with different passwords, the dialog might be asking for, since it wouldn't take my Google password. Some 65k lines of output later, that turned out to be singularly uninformative.)

However, you can convince yourself (as I did) that it's Calendar that's failing, with these steps:

1. Start Evolution
2. Get the password prompt again; cancel it
3. Notice that you can read your Google mail, and see your Google contacts, with no trouble
4. Attempt to view your Google calendar, and instead of seeing your scheduled events, note the failed-connection errors that appear along the bottom of the Evolution window.

Going into Online Accounts settings and switching off Calendar in the "Use For" section will stop the password-entry dialogs from pestering you; the rest of your Google account connectivity will function normally. (Well... I don't know about Chat as I don't use it, so mine's always switched off.)

I'm on gnome 3.13 at the moment and periodically get asked for my Google password. The first time, irrespective of whether it's correct or not, it says that the password was wrong. The second time, it accepts it. It could be a bug. Please file one here - https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=gnome-online-accounts and upstream will take a look.

I can replicate this issue in standard Fedora 20 virtual machine, so I don't think it's got anything to do with your system's configuration (beyond being up to date and Fedora 20, that is).

If you choose "cancel" when prompted for credentials, does the problem persist? I was causing my machine to prompt me for credentials by rebooting (which succeeded in causing it to prompt every time) and I noticed that simply canceling the request allows me to continue to use Empathy and other services relying on this feature without issue.

The latest update from Fedora seems to have fixed the problem.

I had this issue on CentOS 7 - just installed and fully updated (over 300 updates!).

The fix was to first turn off the Calendar in the CentOS 7 -> Settings -> Online accounts.

This caused the calendar for the Google account to disappear in Evolution.

Then I added a new calendar directly in Evolution of type Google. Since I used two-factor authentication, I had to generate and App Password specifically for this in my Google -> Account Settings -> App Passwords.

I had been doing that before but the prompt would never accept that App Password.

When doing it this way, the App Password was accepted and I can access that Google account calendar in Evolution.

I am on Fedora 20 x64 with the latest updates and GNOME 3.10. My password was never accepted; I had to hit cancel. As a workaround, I deleted my Google online account in GNOME. Then added my Google email account in Evolution. Evolution provided an option for me to include my contacts and calendar. Now my email, contacts, and calendar all work fine and I am not asked for my password.

try this: http://superuser.com/questions/741984/evolution-gnome-keyring-wont-remember-google-password

After this happened to me, I get an email from gamil:

Sign-in attempt prevented. Someone just tried to sign in to your Google Account xxx.gmail.com from an app that doesn't meet modern security standards...

I installed Linux Fedora 22 yesterday.

Suggestions?

go to google application security link:- https://security.google.com/settings/security/apppasswords

and genrate your app password and enjoy...