GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 738628
Double password prompt
Last modified: 2015-08-26 14:19:25 UTC
I get occasional prompts for my gmail password. Firstly I don't know why they happen. Is this a feature? Secondly when I fill the password prompt with correct password I am shown another password prompt and after filling the second it bugs off.
Why do you think those prompts come from Evolution? Which version is this about?
Also the first prompt says my password is incorrect.
Created attachment 288748 [details] first prompt
Created attachment 288749 [details] second prompt
$ evolution --version evolution 3.12.7
When are these popups displayed? Is Evolution running?
$ ps aux | grep evolution luke 1569 0.0 0.2 869948 20764 ? SLl 13:08 0:00 /usr/lib/evolution/evolution-source-registry luke 1612 0.0 0.8 1400416 67424 ? Sl 13:08 0:00 /usr/lib/evolution/evolution-calendar-factory luke 1628 0.0 1.0 938508 81052 ? Sl 13:08 0:01 /usr/lib/evolution/3.12/evolution-alarm-notify These prompts are displayed at random times. I have my online Gmail account linked in GNOME settings.
So Evolution is not even running; hence this is not an Evolution bug. Maybe gnome-online-accounts?
I just found out, that I had less secure apps disabled. See https://www.google.com/settings/security/lesssecureapps This may have been the problem. Maybe you should somehow query for this setting and show other message. Don't know if Google provides API for this. Will report if the issue persists.
It happened again with less secure apps enabled.
I guess this is related to gnome online accounts. Since I've turned it off no prompts were shown.
(In reply to wieczorek1990 from comment #7) > $ ps aux | grep evolution > luke 1569 0.0 0.2 869948 20764 ? SLl 13:08 0:00 > /usr/lib/evolution/evolution-source-registry > luke 1612 0.0 0.8 1400416 67424 ? Sl 13:08 0:00 > /usr/lib/evolution/evolution-calendar-factory > luke 1628 0.0 1.0 938508 81052 ? Sl 13:08 0:01 > /usr/lib/evolution/3.12/evolution-alarm-notify > > These prompts are displayed at random times. > I have my online Gmail account linked in GNOME settings. (In reply to André Klapper from comment #8) > So Evolution is not even running; hence this is not an Evolution bug. > Maybe gnome-online-accounts? Eh? "Evolution" could either mean the user facing application, or the daemons from evolution-data-server that run in the background. That is clearly the case here. :) I think this is simply the old and well-known case of evolution-data-server showing shell modal dialogs. I can see that this is fixed in versions 3.17.2 and 3.16.3.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 728496 ***