Ubuntu 20.04 with KDE Plasma desktop. I repeatedly get a popup asking me to login to mail.google.com. I do so, but my login is rejected. In fact, I'm already using Google mail in my Chromium browser, and I am logged in to same. What to do ???? Gus
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Ubuntu 20.04 with KDE Plasma desktop. I repeatedly get a popup asking me to login to mail.google.com. I do so, but my login is rejected. In fact, I'm already using Google mail in my Chromium browser, and I am logged in to same. What to do ???? Gus
Do you have any plasmoids enabled that use gmail etc?
I don't think so - below is a list of my plasmoids:
Code:ls -rR ~/. local/share/plasma/
~/.local/share/plasma$ ls -rR
.:
look-and-feel desktoptheme
./look-and-feel:
Mountain-landscapes-04 Aritim-Light Aritim-Dark Ant-Dark
./look-and-feel/Mountain-landscapes-04:
metadata.desktop contents
./look-and-feel/Mountain-landscapes-04/contents:
splash previews
./look-and-feel/Mountain-landscapes-04/contents/splash:
Splash.qml images
./look-and-feel/Mountain-landscapes-04/contents/splash/images:
Mountain-landscapes-04.png 739.svg
./look-and-feel/Mountain-landscapes-04/contents/previews:
splash.png
./look-and-feel/Aritim-Light:
README.md metadata.desktop LICENSE contents
./look-and-feel/Aritim-Light/contents:
previews defaults
./look-and-feel/Aritim-Light/contents/previews:
preview.png fullscreenpreview.jpg
./look-and-feel/Aritim-Dark:
README.md metadata.desktop LICENSE contents
./look-and-feel/Aritim-Dark/contents:
previews defaults
./look-and-feel/Aritim-Dark/contents/previews:
preview.png fullscreenpreview.jpg
./look-and-feel/Ant-Dark:
metadata.desktop contents
./look-and-feel/Ant-Dark/contents:
splash previews osd logout lockscreen defaults components
./look-and-feel/Ant-Dark/contents/splash:
Splash.qml images
./look-and-feel/Ant-Dark/contents/splash/images:
logo.png busy02.svg
./look-and-feel/Ant-Dark/contents/previews:
splash.png preview.png fullscreenpreview.jpg
./look-and-feel/Ant-Dark/contents/osd:
Osd.qml OsdItem.qml
./look-and-feel/Ant-Dark/contents/logout:
timer.js Logout.qml LogoutButton.qml
./look-and-feel/Ant-Dark/contents/lockscreen:
MediaControls.qml MainBlock.qml LockScreenUi.qml LockScreen.qml LockOsd.qml config.xml config.qml
./look-and-feel/Ant-Dark/contents/components:
WallpaperFader.qml UserList.qml SessionManagementScreen.qml Clock.qml artwork
VirtualKeyboard.qml UserDelegate.qml KeyboardLayoutButton.qml Battery.qml ActionButton.qml
./look-and-feel/Ant-Dark/contents/components/artwork:
shutdown_primary.svgz restart_primary.svgz README.txt logout_primary.svgz
./desktoptheme:
Aritim-Light-Flat-Blur Aritim-Dark-Rounded-Blur Aritim-Dark-Flat-Blur
Aritim-Dark-Rounded-Solid Aritim-Dark-Flat-Solid Ant-Dark
./desktoptheme/Aritim-Light-Flat-Blur:
widgets transparent README.md opaque Notes.txt metadata.desktop LICENSE dialogs colors
./desktoptheme/Aritim-Light-Flat-Blur/widgets:
viewitem.svg tooltip.svg tasks.svg panel-background.svg checkmarks.svgz button.svgz
./desktoptheme/Aritim-Light-Flat-Blur/transparent:
widgets dialogs
./desktoptheme/Aritim-Light-Flat-Blur/transparent/widgets:
./desktoptheme/Aritim-Light-Flat-Blur/transparent/dialogs:
background.svg
./desktoptheme/Aritim-Light-Flat-Blur/opaque:
widgets dialogs
./desktoptheme/Aritim-Light-Flat-Blur/opaque/widgets:
./desktoptheme/Aritim-Light-Flat-Blur/opaque/dialogs:
background.svg
./desktoptheme/Aritim-Light-Flat-Blur/dialogs:
background.svg
./desktoptheme/Aritim-Dark-Rounded-Solid:
widgets README.md opaque Notes.txt metadata.desktop LICENSE dialogs colors
./desktoptheme/Aritim-Dark-Rounded-Solid/widgets:
viewitem.svg tooltip.svg tasks.svg panel-background.svg checkmarks.svgz button.svgz
./desktoptheme/Aritim-Dark-Rounded-Solid/opaque:
widgets dialogs
./desktoptheme/Aritim-Dark-Rounded-Solid/opaque/widgets:
./desktoptheme/Aritim-Dark-Rounded-Solid/opaque/dialogs:
background.svg
./desktoptheme/Aritim-Dark-Rounded-Solid/dialogs:
background.svg
./desktoptheme/Aritim-Dark-Rounded-Blur:
widgets transparent README.md opaque Notes.txt metadata.desktop LICENSE dialogs colors
./desktoptheme/Aritim-Dark-Rounded-Blur/widgets:
viewitem.svg tooltip.svg tasks.svg panel-background.svg checkmarks.svgz button.svgz
./desktoptheme/Aritim-Dark-Rounded-Blur/transparent:
widgets dialogs
./desktoptheme/Aritim-Dark-Rounded-Blur/transparent/widgets:
./desktoptheme/Aritim-Dark-Rounded-Blur/transparent/dialogs:
background.svg
./desktoptheme/Aritim-Dark-Rounded-Blur/opaque:
widgets dialogs
./desktoptheme/Aritim-Dark-Rounded-Blur/opaque/widgets:
./desktoptheme/Aritim-Dark-Rounded-Blur/opaque/dialogs:
background.svg
./desktoptheme/Aritim-Dark-Rounded-Blur/dialogs:
background.svg
./desktoptheme/Aritim-Dark-Flat-Solid:
widgets weather README.md QRCode.jpg metadata.desktop LICENSE dialogs colors
./desktoptheme/Aritim-Dark-Flat-Solid/widgets:
viewitem.svgz scrollbar.svgz listitem.svgz clock.svgz background.svgz
tooltip.svgz plot-background.svgz line.svgz checkmarks.svgz arrows.svgz
toolbar.svgz picker.svgz lineedit.svgz calendar.svgz analog_meter.svgz
timer.svgz panel-background.svgz glowbar.svgz button.svgz action-overlays.svgz
tasks.svgz pager.svgz frame.svgz busywidget.svgz actionbutton.svgz
tabbar.svgz notes.svgz dragger.svgz branding.svgz
slider.svgz monitor.svgz containment-controls.svgz bar_meter_vertical.svgz
scrollwidget.svgz media-delegate.svgz configuration-icons.svgz bar_meter_horizontal.svgz
./desktoptheme/Aritim-Dark-Flat-Solid/weather:
wind-arrows.svgz
./desktoptheme/Aritim-Dark-Flat-Solid/LICENSE:
'CC BY-SA 4.0 EN.md'
./desktoptheme/Aritim-Dark-Flat-Solid/dialogs:
background.svgz
./desktoptheme/Aritim-Dark-Flat-Blur:
widgets README.md Notes.txt metadata.desktop 'LICENSE copy' dialogs colors
./desktoptheme/Aritim-Dark-Flat-Blur/widgets:
viewitem.svgz scrollwidget.svgz media-delegate.svgz configuration-icons.svgz bar_meter_horizontal.svgz
translucentbackground.svgz scrollbar.svgz listitem.svgz clock.svgz background.svgz
tooltip.svgz plot-background.svgz line.svgz checkmarks.svgz arrows.svgz
toolbar.svgz picker.svgz lineedit.svgz calendar.svgz analog_meter.svgz
timer.svgz panel-background.svgz glowbar.svgz button.svgz action-overlays.svgz
tasks.svgz pager.svgz frame.svgz busywidget.svgz actionbutton.svgz
tabbar.svgz notes.svgz dragger.svgz branding.svgz
slider.svgz monitor.svgz containment-controls.svgz bar_meter_vertical.svgz
./desktoptheme/Aritim-Dark-Flat-Blur/dialogs:
background.svgz
./desktoptheme/Ant-Dark:
widgets metadata.desktop icons dialogs colors
./desktoptheme/Ant-Dark/widgets:
viewitem.svgz tabbar.svg pager.svgz containment-controls.svgz bar_meter_horizontal.svgz
translucentbackground.svgz slider.svgz listitem.svgz clock.svg background.svgz
tooltip.svgz scrollwidget.svg line.svgz checkmarks.svg arrows.svgz
toolbar.svgz scrollbar.svg lineedit.svg button.svg action-overlays.svgz
timer.svgz plot-background.svgz glowbar.svgz busywidget.svgz actionbutton.svg
tasks.svgz panel-background.svg frame.svgz bar_meter_vertical.svgz
./desktoptheme/Ant-Dark/icons:
system.svg start.svg audio.svg
./desktoptheme/Ant-Dark/dialogs:
_background.svgz background.svg
What I don't know how to do is to trace back to find what generates the popup.
I note that the kde wallet is disabled on my system (by me in settings), but I still see these messages in /var/log/syslog:
Code:dbus-daemon[1538]: [session uid=1000 pid=1538] Activating service name='org.kde.kwalletd5' requested by ':1.57' (uid=1000 pid=2133 comm="/opt/google/chrome/chrome --type=utility --utility" label="unconfined")
dbus-daemon[1538]: [session uid=1000 pid=1538] Successfully activated service 'org.kde.kwalletd5'
dbus-daemon[1538]: [session uid=1000 pid=1538] Activating service name='org.kde.kwalletd5' requested by ':1.57' (uid=1000 pid=2133 comm="/opt/google/chrome/chrome --type=utility --utility" label="unconfined")
dbus-daemon[1538]: [session uid=1000 pid=1538] Successfully activated service 'org.kde.kwalletd5'
As I said above, I did not think I had any plasmoids that used gmail. But I was wrong.
In fact, I had inadvertently installed plasma-gmailfeed during an update of plasma-desktop, and that was the offending plasmoid that triggered the popups. After I removed plasma-gmailfeed - no more mail.gmail.com authentication popups. Problem solved.
It took me ever so long and so much google searching to discover the culprit. I hope this post may help others with this problem.
Gus