Thunderbird calendar not working after Radicale upgrade

mfoley · 01-29-2024, 11:32 PM

I've upgraded from Radicale 2.1.11 to Radicale 3.1.8 and am having some issues. But, in the course of writing this thread I tried restarting Radicale and now it won't run at all! I've made no changes. I get the single line in /var/log/syslog:

Code:

Jan 30 00:18:33 server daemon: radicale: client (pid 2894) exited with 1 status, exiting

Nothing else. I can't find this error searching the web. I've rebooted the server. Nada. My config is, essentially unchanged from 2.1.11:

Code:

[server]

hosts = 0.0.0.0:5232

ssl = False

[encoding]

[auth]

type = htpasswd
htpasswd_filename = /etc/httpd/passwords
htpasswd_encryption = bcrypt

[rights]
type = none

[storage]
filesystem_folder = ~/collections

[headers]

The startup command line is:

Code:

daemon -n radicale -u radicale -o local1.warning -e "HOME=/home/radicale" -D /home/radicale -- python3 -m radicale

That's all I have. Any idea why this is failing to run at all?

allend · 01-30-2024, 12:40 AM

Just comparing what you have with my working setup.

I added '-E /var/lib/radicale/radicale.log' to the startup command line to log messages when I was initially setting this up.

For the [server] section in /etc/radicale/config I just have the default which I believe is 'hosts = localhost:5232' and the default 'ssl = False'.

For the [auth] section I just have 'type = htpasswd' with the defaults 'htpasswd_filename = /etc/radicale/users' and 'htpasswd_encryption = md5'.

mfoley · 01-30-2024, 10:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by allend

Just comparing what you have with my working setup.

I added '-E /var/lib/radicale/radicale.log' to the startup command line to log messages when I was initially setting this up.

Thanks for that tip. I also added --stderr (-E), --stdout (-O) and --output (-o). In the case of -o, that was set to "local1.warning" and I have no idea where that went. In any case, the -O file showed a problem:

Code:

[2024-01-30 23:17:16 -0500] [19440] [WARNING] (trapped) error reading bcrypt version
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.9/site-packages/passlib/handlers/bcrypt.py", line 620, in _load_backend_mixin
    version = _bcrypt.__about__.__version__
AttributeError: module 'bcrypt' has no attribute '__about__'

I had installed radicale from the SlackBuilds repo, and as part of that it did install python3-bcrypt-4.1.2 and removed python3-bcrypt-4.0.1. I'm not too familiar with python. Any idea how I would get the right version of bcrypt in sync with my Python 3.9.18 version?

In the meantime, I've set [auth] type = none. That got my calendar on the Windows Thunderbird syncing again.

Quote:

For the [server] section in /etc/radicale/config I just have the default which I believe is 'hosts = localhost:5232' and the default 'ssl = False'.

localhost:5232 means it only accepts connections from the local host. I have 0.0.0.0:5232 because I am connecting from remote devices. My ssl is also False.

Quote:

For the [auth] section I just have 'type = htpasswd' with the defaults 'htpasswd_filename = /etc/radicale/users' and 'htpasswd_encryption = md5'.

So that's my problem at the moment. I am using htpasswd and have encryption = bcrypt, and that stopped working when I "upgraded" to python3-bcrypt-4.1.2.

I'll see if I can figure out how to rectify this, but advice would be appreciated as I know little about how Python and all its modules interrelate.

allend · 01-31-2024, 12:05 AM

I cannot offer any good advice on Python. I do know that I built with python-bcrypt-4.0.1 which is still in use.

I installed radicale to be able to import calendar entries into my iPhone. I let Apache handle the connection from the iPhone. Apparently the iPhone requires HTTPS for external CalDAV servers.