Google refuses to accept connection with both Online Connections and kiogdrive, any workarounds? [Solved]

[Lady Owl]

Hi! I just succesfully installed (and updated) MX 23.4 KDE on my laptop and started settling in the new system. I have installed & used other distros before, but I can not be considered an experienced user regarding troubleshooting, command line, maintenance etc.

Now I found Online Accounts in system settings, and tried to add Google of course. Got as far as to have Google asking for verification in my phone - but after that Google itself refused to grant access.

I found kiodrive been suggested, and added all the packages recommended here viewtopic.php?p=737329&hilit=Online+acc ... le#p737329. And then tried both via Online Accounts, and Dolphin. It got me one step further - Google verification asked me to choose the number (out of 3) that was on screen. But still ultimately, access not granted.

Searched around and it seems that this issue has been around for quite a while. Has any solution been found in the mean time? Or any workaround? Would be practical to have connection to Google Drive, after all (and I guess it would help with connecting to gmail etc).

[Eadwine Rose]

With all requests, as per forum rules (which, if you haven't, please read), please share your full Quick System Info, do not edit.
If need be, you can do this using the LiveUSB, thanks.

[Gabriel_M]

Rclone is a tool to manage data in the cloud efficiently and securely on Linux systems

Open a terminal.

Run in it:

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 sudo apt update

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 sudo apt install rclone

Configure the application with the following command in the same terminal:

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rclone config

Select the option to add a new remote, select “n” and press Enter.

Choose a name to be used to refer to your Google Drive connection in rclone, for example Gdrive

Select the type of storage you will use, Google Drive corresponds to drive (13) and press Enter.

Configure the Google Drive application, follow the instructions that appear in the terminal to obtain the authorization token, which will allow you to access your Google Drive from rclone.

Select the default configuration settings, which are suitable.

Once the configuration is complete, it will show you a summary of your options, if everything is correct, confirm the configuration.

Create the directory where to mount Google-drive, for example ~/gdrive, by running in the terminal

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 mkdir ~/gdrive

To access Google-drive, you must run the following command in a terminal:

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 rclone mount Gdrive: ~/google-drive &

You can create a script to run this command when you start your computer and always have google-drive mounted on your system, if you want.

[Lady Owl]

Here's the quick system info, if it really makes any difference in a case that seems to be a persistent issue specifically with the version with KDE.

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System:
  Kernel: 6.1.0-28-amd64 [6.1.119-1] arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.1.0-28-amd64 root=/dev/mapper/system-root ro quiet splash
  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.27.5 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 7 dm: SDDM Distro: MX-23.4_KDE_x64 Libretto
    September 15 2024 base: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: FUJITSU product: LIFEBOOK E744 v: 10601583215 serial: <superuser required>
    Chassis: type: 10 v: LIFEBOOK E744 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: FUJITSU model: FJNB26F v: M3 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: FUJITSU // Phoenix
    v: Version 1.17 date: 09/26/2014
Battery:
  ID-1: CMB1 charge: 32.5 Wh (65.9%) condition: 49.3/56.2 Wh (87.8%) volts: 11.0 min: 10.8
    model: Fujitsu CP633525-03 type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: discharging
CPU:
  Info: model: Intel Core i5-4200M bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Haswell gen: core 4 level: v3
    note: check built: 2013-15 process: Intel 22nm family: 6 model-id: 0x3C (60) stepping: 3
    microcode: 0x28
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 2 tpc: 2 threads: 4 smt: enabled cache: L1: 128 KiB
    desc: d-2x32 KiB; i-2x32 KiB L2: 512 KiB desc: 2x256 KiB L3: 3 MiB desc: 1x3 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 2013 high: 2145 min/max: 800/3100 scaling: driver: intel_cpufreq
    governor: ondemand cores: 1: 2145 2: 1836 3: 1977 4: 2094 bogomips: 19955
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: gather_data_sampling status: Not affected
  Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
  Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable
  Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
  Type: mmio_stale_data status: Unknown: No mitigations
  Type: reg_file_data_sampling status: Not affected
  Type: retbleed status: Not affected
  Type: spec_rstack_overflow status: Not affected
  Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl
  Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines; IBPB: conditional; IBRS_FW; STIBP: conditional; RSB
    filling; PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected; BHI: Not affected
  Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics vendor: Fujitsu driver: i915 v: kernel
    arch: Gen-7.5 process: Intel 22nm built: 2013 ports: active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1, DP-2, DP-3,
    HDMI-A-1, HDMI-A-2, HDMI-A-3, VGA-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:0416 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: Chicony FJ Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-12:5 chip-ID: 04f2:b3b4
    class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.7 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.9 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X:
    loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa dri: crocus gpu: i915 display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1600x900 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 423x238mm (16.65x9.37") s-diag: 485mm (19.11")
  Monitor-1: eDP-1 res: 1600x900 hz: 60 size: N/A modes: 1600x900
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 Mesa 24.2.2-1~mx23ahs renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 4600 (HSW GT2)
    direct-render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor HD Audio vendor: Fujitsu
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:03.0 chip-ID: 8086:0c0c class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: Intel 8 Series/C220 Series High Definition Audio vendor: Fujitsu . 8
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:8c20 class-ID: 0403
  API: ALSA v: k6.1.0-28-amd64 status: kernel-api tools: alsamixer,amixer
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.0 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse status: active
    2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin 4: pw-jack type: plugin
    tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Ethernet I217-LM vendor: Fujitsu driver: e1000e v: kernel port: 3080
    bus-ID: 00:19.0 chip-ID: 8086:153a class-ID: 0200
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Intel Wireless 7260 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel modules: wl pcie: gen: 1
    speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:08b1 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-8:3
    chip-ID: 8087:07dc class-ID: e001
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: down bt-service: N/A rfk-block: hardware: no
    software: yes address: <filter>
  Info: acl-mtu: 1021:5 sco-mtu: 96:5 link-policy: rswitch hold sniff
    link-mode: peripheral accept
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 111.79 GiB used: 17.92 GiB (16.0%)
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Kingston model: SA400S37120G size: 111.79 GiB block-size:
    physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 0004 scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 44.54 GiB size: 43.54 GiB (97.75%) used: 10.33 GiB (23.7%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/dm-2 maj-min: 254:2 mapped: system-root
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 500 MiB size: 499.7 MiB (99.94%) used: 360 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1
  ID-3: /home raw-size: 59.09 GiB size: 57.86 GiB (97.92%) used: 7.59 GiB (13.1%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/dm-1 maj-min: 254:1 mapped: system-home
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 15 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 7.67 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 dev: /dev/dm-0
    maj-min: 254:0 mapped: system-swap
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 64.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Repos:
  Packages: pm: dpkg pkgs: 2517 libs: 1342 tools: apt,apt-get,aptitude,nala,synaptic pm: rpm
    pkgs: 0 pm: flatpak pkgs: 0
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list
    1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
    1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
    2: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ bookworm-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list
    1: deb http://mirror.accum.se/mirror/mxlinux.org/packages/mx/repo/ bookworm main non-free
    2: deb http://mirror.accum.se/mirror/mxlinux.org/packages/mx/repo/ bookworm ahs
Info:
  Processes: 217 Uptime: 1h 23m wakeups: 2 Memory: 7.64 GiB used: 3.95 GiB (51.7%) Init: SysVinit
  v: 3.06 runlevel: 5 default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 12.2.0 alt: 12
  Client: shell wrapper v: 5.2.15-release inxi: 3.3.26
Boot Mode: UEFI

[Lady Owl]

Rclone is a tool to manage data in the cloud efficiently and securely on Linux systems
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To access Google-drive, you must run the following command in a terminal:

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 rclone mount Gdrive: ~/google-drive &

You can create a script to run this command when you start your computer and always have google-drive mounted on your system, if you want.

Thanks. I managed to do that (it gives a bunch of read errors about partial downloads, but that's another thing...and maybe it won't do that the next time). At least I have Google Drive when I need. (Making scripts is still foreign to me, but I made a note of the command, with my directory names etc.)

[Gabriel_M]

Once configured and running, you can install rclone browser:

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sudo apt update
sudo apt install rclone-browser

And through it, graphically mount and unmount the resource.