Bug 814383 - evolution components prompts for password if network is unavailable
Summary: evolution components prompts for password if network is unavailable
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: evolution
Version: 17
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Matthew Barnes
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-04-19 18:14 UTC by Peter Robinson
Modified: 2013-08-01 03:41 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2013-08-01 03:41:17 UTC
Type: Bug


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Description Peter Robinson 2012-04-19 18:14:24 UTC
I have a google account configured by gnome-online-accounts. In evolution I only use it for tasks and calendar. If I've had the wifi disabled at work and suspend/resume and forgot to turn the wifi on evolution will prompt for passwords (even if it's not running) on resume, the password is correct but it doesn't seem to detect that the reason the service can't authenticate is because there is no network available for it to do so.

evolution-ews-3.4.1-1.fc17.x86_64
evolution-3.4.1-1.fc17.x86_64
evolution-NetworkManager-3.4.1-1.fc17.x86_64
evolution-mapi-3.4.0-1.fc17.x86_64
evolution-help-3.4.1-1.fc17.noarch
evolution-data-server-3.4.1-1.fc17.x86_64
gnome-online-accounts-3.4.1-1.fc17.x86_64

Comment 1 Milan Crha 2012-04-20 09:02:08 UTC
Interesting, do they support their Tasks over CalDAV now? I thought they have it still disabled and provide only events.

I'll investigate on the incorrect password prompt and let you know.

Comment 2 Peter Robinson 2012-04-20 09:10:39 UTC
One of the libgdata bugs I follow mention they now do allow it but I'm not sure that it does or whether that's just what the dialog said, or maybe I just read it wrong.

Comment 3 Milan Crha 2012-04-20 14:49:43 UTC
I see. Their bug [1] is accepted, but still opened. I thought I just missed it being finally fixed.

[1] http://code.google.com/p/google-caldav-issues/issues/detail?id=36

Comment 4 Milan Crha 2012-04-20 15:36:41 UTC
Hrm, I'm unable to reproduce the password prompt, though I'm not entirely doing the same thing, because I'm only playing either with connection as such, or with vpn connection (which is harder to spot by network manager), but it still doesn't ask me for the password. I'm afraid this will be something with the suspend, having it suspended in the middle of some operation, because if I try to Refresh the calendar while network manager is only connecting to my WiFi access point, then I receive "Host not reachable" for www.google.com, but as an error, not as the password prompt. It reminded me, the password prompt can contain also a reason, why it asks for the password. It's at the very end. Do you recall whether your password prompt had there any reason or not, and if yes, what it was? I'll move it upstream with this information, the code doesn't differ in Fedora from the upstream code.

Comment 5 Peter Robinson 2012-04-20 15:46:36 UTC
I think it might be the gnome-shell calendar widget making something start on login if there's no network connection available. Basically I was turning off wifi in the office as there's issues with WPA-Enterprise and it kept prompting me. Arriving home and I would resume with no wifi, unlock the screen and I get this prompt before I can re-enable networking. My understanding is that NetworkManager reports "online" or "offline" states but it still prompts even in the offline state.

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