[CentOS] Centos 8: Multiple bugs with email/calendar

Tue Oct 1 14:17:05 UTC 2019
Georgios <gpdsbe+centos at mailbox.org>

First of all thanks for your fast reply.


Second.
The server im trying to use is https://dav.mailbox.org/caldav I dont
think its a problem with my configuration (although i can always be
wrong). I suspect a bug in evolution because sometimes it works.
Sometimes i manage to create an event sometimes i cant.

I started evolution from a terminal and i noticed that when i fail to
create an event i get the following message

"(evolution:26852): libecal-CRITICAL **: 11:45:50.282:
e_cal_component_alarm_set_description: assertion 'description->value !=
NULL' failed"

I tried without setting an alarm and i can create events with no
problem!!
So I filled a bug report https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=16507


Third.
I have no idea if its a configuration problem. Newer flatpak versions
work fine! I searched online and found this
https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/3076

marked as enhancement!

ps.Im wondering if evolution in Centos is going to have 5+ year life-
cycle or if it gets upgraded earlier.


On Tue, 2019-10-01 at 08:25 -0400, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Oct 2019 at 03:40, Georgios <gpdsbe+centos at mailbox.org>
> wrote:
> > Hi there!
> > I recently installed centos 8 on my laptop.
> > 
> > I have the following problems
> > 
> > 1. I tried the use the default evolution 3.28.
> > The problem with 3.28 is that when i try to create an event i get
> > the error
> > "Failed to create an event in the calendar “CalDAV : Calendar”"
> > "Cannot create calendar object: Failed to put data: HTTP error code
> > 400
> > (Bad Request)"
> > 
> 
> That sounds like a configuration issue that your calendar server is
> not liking the authentication that evolution sent. We would need to
> know
> 1. what the calendar server you are trying to use
> 2. what the configuration and how you authenticate
> 3. what the error on the server side is.
> 
> > 2.I tried installing evolution from flatpak 3.34
> > Calendar works fine! BUT cant use my yubikey to read my encrypted
> > emails :-(
> > For some reason flatpak seems unable to work with smartcards.
> > Had the same issue with keepassxc and yubikey
> > 
> 
> Flatpacks are sandboxes to make sure that the rest of your account is
> secure from each other https://xkcd.com/1200/ . You have to configure
> what applications you want to be able to talk to your smart card or
> yubikey because just allowing anything to talk to them just leads to
> the xkcd.
> 
> That said, I do not know how to do this. My systems are pre-flatpak
> so
> I have not dealt with this.
> 
> 
> > 3.My third attempt was to use thunderbird from flatpak.
> > I installed thunderbird through flatpak to see if i could overcome
> > the
> > flatpak yubikey problem.
> > Thunderbird starts but then crushes with the following message
> > "flatpak run org.mozilla.Thunderbird
> > Gtk-Message: 09:15:00.372: Failed to load module "pk-gtk-module"
> > Gtk-Message: 09:15:00.372: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-
> > module"
> > Gtk-Message: 09:15:00.372: Failed to load module "pk-gtk-module"
> > Gtk-Message: 09:15:00.372: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-
> > module"
> > "
> > 
> 
> Ouch. That should be reported to the flatpak place you got that from.
> Those aren't created by centos.org so I am guessing gnome or
> flatpak.org ?
> 
> 
> > I would prefer to use evolution than thunderbird.
> > 
> > Any ideas how to solve the calendar or flatpak and yubikey problem?
> > 
> > Thanks in advance!!!
> > 
> > 
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