Login failure as of 13 Dec 2007

BTW, happens with an up to date Gutsy and an up to date Feisty.

Same here with two up to date Hardy

I'm getting the same problem on gutsy from this morning also.

Partial Solution:

Running with the -no_cookies option, allow you to login, but you can't see the subjects of messages anymore, just if you have mail.

e.g. "checkgmail -no_cookies"

I guess google have tightened the security on their use of cookies on the gmail site.

This patch did it for me

Cedric, you are a legend.

Thank you.

Chris

I have the same problem - and running the no cookies optioned work.
Sorry for the ignorance but how do you run patches like the above in Ubuntu ?

Hi dillonger,

the easiest thing is to download http://checkgmail.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/*checkout*/checkgmail/checkgmail, and replace /usr/bin/checkgmail by this file. You can do:

$ cd /tmp
$ wget http://checkgmail.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/*checkout*/checkgmail/checkgmail
$ sudo cp checkgmail /usr/bin

I have download the software and the checkgmail file is replaced. Checkgmail is starting up now correctly, i can logon, but......when I click on Shutdown, the program freezes.

Hello here I am again, in my comment above, I mean Shutdown of CheckGmail, not my computer.

Gerard H.

Hi, I can confirm Damiens solution gives the same results as Gerard, eg. on shutdown of Checkgmail the program freezes. This is on a up-to-date xubuntu 7.10 system.

btw Cedric's patch works perfectly for me

if you look at console output it says that an error in a perl library occurs!!

the messatge is:

pau@esberro:~$ checkgmail
Warning: Gtk2::Sexy not found ...

CheckGmail uses Gtk2::Sexy for clickable URLs in mail messages
Please download and install from CPAN (http://search.cpan.org) if you want to use this feature ...

Parsing of undecoded UTF-8 will give garbage when decoding entities at /usr/share/perl5/LWP/Protocol.pm line 114.
Parsing of undecoded UTF-8 will give garbage when decoding entities at /usr/share/perl5/LWP/Protocol.pm line 114.

I don't think this technically has to do with checkgmail. Gmail has changed it's backend so that all users who login go to the URL http://mail.google.com/mail/#inbox while the feeds are now found at http://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom. Those are the URLs it needs to be updated to. I've made the developer aware of this problem, but quickly noticed that on Dec 13, he submitted his own patch. Maybe updating to that latest version in Feisty, Gusty and Hardy are in order.

However, I can also confirm that Cedrick's patch works: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/checkgmail/+bug/175973/comments/5

Subscribing ~ubuntu-universe-sponsors as this has a patch attached.

BTW this seems to have been fixed in upstream svn revision 19:
http://checkgmail.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/checkgmail?view=rev&sortby=log&sortdir=down&revision=19

I've unsubscribed ubuntu-universe-sponsors, as the patch is not in debdiff format. If someone could wrap the patch, or alternately grab a new upstream including the fix, please resubscribe ubuntu-universe-sponsors to request upload.

I've uploaded a package based on today's snapshot (containing upstream fix for this issue) in my ppa :

http://ppa.launchpad.net/cschieli/ubuntu/pool/main/c/checkgmail/checkgmail_1.12.1+svn20080102.orig.tar.gz
http://ppa.launchpad.net/cschieli/ubuntu/pool/main/c/checkgmail/checkgmail_1.12.1+svn20080102-0ubuntu1.diff.gz
http://ppa.launchpad.net/cschieli/ubuntu/pool/main/c/checkgmail/checkgmail_1.12.1+svn20080102-0ubuntu1.dsc
http://ppa.launchpad.net/cschieli/ubuntu/pool/main/c/checkgmail/checkgmail_1.12.1+svn20080102-0ubuntu1_all.deb

I confirm this fixes the problem for me.

Here is the debdiff between hardy's version and mine

Looks sane to me, except that the version string should be 1.12+svn... instead of 1.12.1+svn, as 1.12.1+svn is greater than 1.12.1, which hasn't been released yet.

Cedric, thanks for the debdiff. Emilio, thanks for the version catch: I'll s/+/~/ when sponsoring to ensure that 1.12.1 can override this.

BTW could you submit the patch upstream? I've done a quick look at the SF project and couldn't find it reported.

Uploaded as checkgmail_1.12.1~svn20080102-0ubuntu1. Thanks.

This bug was fixed in the package checkgmail - 1.12.1~svn20080102-0ubuntu1

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checkgmail (1.12.1~svn20080102-0ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low

  * New upstream snapshot (LP: #175973)
  * debian/patches/permission-fix.dpatch: refreshed

 -- Cedric Schieli <email address hidden> Wed, 02 Jan 2008 11:50:38 +0100

Has this fix been released to Gusty? https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/checkgmail/1.12.1~svn20080102-0ubuntu1

Gutsy is still broken unless I run this patch: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/checkgmail/+bug/175973/comments/5

Up-to-date as of 2008-01-15

no new fix released ? my checkgmail is still no working.......

My checkgmail was working some time after installing it but it hasn't been working at least last two weaks.

Vratislav: This bug was fixed in early 2008. The current problem is being tracked in a separate bug (#433497) and has been fixed apparently.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/checkgmail/+bug/433497