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Bug 1769761 - known bug in thunderbird 68.2.0 with gmail accounts
Summary: known bug in thunderbird 68.2.0 with gmail accounts
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: thunderbird
Version: 31
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jan Horak
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2019-11-07 11:58 UTC by Peter F. Patel-Schneider
Modified: 2019-11-26 23:51 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

Fixed In Version: thunderbird-68.2.2-1.fc31 thunderbird-68.2.2-1.fc29 thunderbird-68.2.2-1.fc30
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Last Closed: 2019-11-14 13:39:15 UTC
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Description Peter F. Patel-Schneider 2019-11-07 11:58:56 UTC 
Description of problem:

Thunderbird 68.2.0 has a bug that causes problems with gmail email accounts.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

68.2.0

How reproducible:

Always for me, but may not be a problem for everyone

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add gmail account to thunderbird
2.
3.

Actual results:

An authentication error is signalled even when everything should be OK.

Expected results:

Email account set up correctly.

Additional info:

This is a known bug, and is fixed in 68.2.1, so this report is just a plea to push thunderbird 68.2.1 out as quickly as possible.  

See the release notes for thunderbird 68.2.1 https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/68.2.1/releasenotes/ where there is a short note saying that the problem has been fixed.
Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2019-11-11 09:29:21 UTC 
FEDORA-2019-6dcf885e38 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 30. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-6dcf885e38
Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2019-11-11 09:29:30 UTC 
FEDORA-2019-08524f4727 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 31. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-08524f4727
Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2019-11-11 09:29:36 UTC 
FEDORA-2019-1a16af2158 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 29. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-1a16af2158
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2019-11-12 03:07:15 UTC 
thunderbird-68.2.2-1.fc30 has been pushed to the Fedora 30 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-6dcf885e38
Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2019-11-12 04:26:07 UTC 
thunderbird-68.2.2-1.fc29 has been pushed to the Fedora 29 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-1a16af2158
Comment 6 Peter F. Patel-Schneider 2019-11-12 12:46:05 UTC 
Can this be pushed to testing in Fedora 31?  That's what I'm running.
Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2019-11-13 04:55:44 UTC 
thunderbird-68.2.2-1.fc31 has been pushed to the Fedora 31 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-08524f4727
Comment 8 Peter F. Patel-Schneider 2019-11-14 13:39:15 UTC 
Bug is fixed in 68.2.1
Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2019-11-15 03:01:43 UTC 
thunderbird-68.2.2-1.fc31 has been pushed to the Fedora 31 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2019-11-26 16:47:51 UTC 
thunderbird-68.2.2-1.fc29 has been pushed to the Fedora 29 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2019-11-26 23:51:04 UTC 
thunderbird-68.2.2-1.fc30 has been pushed to the Fedora 30 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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