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Why does Ubuntu keep asking for my gmail password?

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After upgrading to 13.10, I am now getting a prompt for my gmail password every time I log in. There is no indication as to which service or application needs this information. If I enter the correct password I'm told it is incorrect. My gmail account does not use two factor authentication. The problem has only started after an upgrade from 13.04 to 13.10.

How can I prevent this prompt appearing, and/or what is doing the prompting?

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answered 2 Years ago njuash · Accepted Answer

Well I haven't managed to find out exactly why I'm getting asked for the password, but I've managed to stop it happening. I renamed my ~/.config directory and then let the logout/login process create a new one. Then by a long process of copying entries from my old .config to my new one, I've found out that the problem lies somewhere in the three directories evolution, desktop-couch and goa-1.0. As the prompt has stopped and I don't use evolution ( and I don't know what desktop-couch or goa-1.0 are) I've left it at that.

Hopefully this will let someone else fix their system and/or explain what is going on.