Comments on: Howto: Two Way Sync Between Kontact and GCal

by: rob

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 22:26:21 +0000

Anyone have an issue with the contacts not getting downloaded? I used the GUI tool to config everything, the calendar works great, but the contacts fail with the following error:

ERROR | Unable to load contact list!
java.lang.Exception: Login failed (check username/password)!
at org.gcaldaemon.core.GmailEntry.connectLDAP(GmailEntry.java:231)
at org.gcaldaemon.core.GmailEntry.connect(GmailEntry.java:147)
at org.gcaldaemon.core.GmailPool.borrow(GmailPool.java:98)
at org.gcaldaemon.core.ldap.ContactLoader.loadContacts(ContactLoader.java :274)
at org.gcaldaemon.core.ldap.ContactLoader.run(ContactLoader.java:220)

It looks like the username/password is incorrect, but they were set to the same value by the config tool. If I run the password encryption script it also spits out the same password for both the calendar and the contacts.

by: SJ

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 08:15:27 +0000

Hi there

it works great for me, however I wonder if there’s a way to also sync the birthdays/anniversaries from kaddressbook that show in korganizer?

by: Dan

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 23:49:31 +0000

Thanks. This was too easy. Now I’m ready for Android.

by: Bill

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:09:37 +0000

Well, I installed Mandriva 2009 RC1 that has KOrganizer Version 4.1.0. I was hoping the bug would be fixed, but alas, it is not.
Not sure what I’m going to do now… ;(

by: Luke Maciak

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:13:12 +0000

@Bill - good find! I’ll keep an eye on that thread.

by: Bill

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 22:53:38 +0000

According to this there is a time-zone sync bug in Kontact (i.e. KOrganizer):
I’m still looking for a solution, too.
Cheers

by: Niels Hoffmann

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:05:20 +0000

I have the exact same issue with the one hour time shift between Google Calendar and KOrganizer on my eeePC… Both are set to pacific/Auckland time zones. Anyone found a solution for this yet?

Cheers, Niels

by: Pierre DEDIEU

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:44:31 +0000

All this seems so good,
but I have a strange time zone (?) pb:

I use GCalDaemon with the sync-now.sh
as I don’t always have the internet link with my eeePC.

Everything seems right at first:
my google calendar events get correctly on the local copy I use thru Kontact…
BUT after several sync, I noticed that my events are shifting
one our after each sync…

At first I thought I got the time zone incorrectly on eigther
side, but :

I am in France / Paris
and the correct time zone is selected on google and on the eeePC.
The GCalDaemon logs tell about using CET.

And after reflexion, would the problem be that the shift sould occur only one, and since the very first sync.

Any idea ??

by: Phlogiston

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:36:19 +0000

Anyone knows how to sync a calendar that I have added to my google calendar? Because only my own is synced with GCALDaemon.

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Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:18:40 +0000

[…] Sólo falta que se implemente la segunda parte para conseguir una comunicación bidireccional completa, es decir, que se permita editar los calendarios remotos directamente desde el programa de escritorio que está suscrito. Hay alguna “solución” para este problema que quizá pueda servir en ciertos casos, pero pasa por exportar el calendario como un vCalendar desde el programa local e importarlo desde Google Calendar. También hay alguna guía paso a paso de cómo conseguir esa sincronización utilizando GCalDaemon. Ninguna de las soluciones que hay por ahora es muy elegante, toca esperar para una comunicación totalmente integrada en ambas partes. […]