Fedora 41 Online Accounts cannot connect with Google Account

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Howdy,

Trying to connect google account, on new install F41 no error message beyond a lack of finalization. The process on the web browser ends but does not complete. Noobish to linux.
new installation, less than 30mins…

Thanks,

Jan 07 00:29:27 fedora systemd[2533]: Started app-flatpak-org.mozilla.firefox-4887.scope.
Jan 07 00:29:28 fedora gnome-shell[2709]: meta_wayland_buffer_process_damage: assertion 'buffer->resource' failed
Jan 07 00:29:37 fedora gnome-control-c[3666]: g_task_return_error_if_cancelled: assertion '!task->ever_returned' failed
Jan 07 00:29:37 fedora gnome-control-c[3666]: Failed to set text 'Invalid URI: com.googleusercontent.apps.44438659992-7kgjeitenc16ssihbtdjbgguch7ju55s:///oauth2redirect?code=4/0AanRRru3Acm6OXym098EqLLHxABHxyON5qEk70fmhalk0MruP5OqnuVWwWwIxaol07l4NA&scope=email%20profile%20https://mail.google.com/%20https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive%20https://www.googleapis.com/auth/docs%20https://www.googleapis.com/auth/carddav%20https://www.googleapis.com/auth/contacts%20https://www.googleapis.com/auth/spreadsheets%20https://www.googleapis.com/auth/calendar%20https://www.googleapis.com/auth/tasks%20openid%20https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.profile%20https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.email&authuser=0&prompt=consent' from markup due to error parsing markup: Error on line 1: Entity did not end with a semicolon; most likely you used an ampersand character without intending to start an entity — escape ampersand as &>
Jan 07 00:30:45 fedora systemd[2533]: Created slice background.slice - User Background Tasks Slice.
Jan 07 00:30:45 fedora systemd[2533]: Starting systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service - Cleanup of User's Temporary Files and Directories...
Jan 07 00:30:45 fedora systemd[2533]: Finished systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service - Cleanup of User's Temporary Files and Directories.
Jan 07 00:31:29 fedora systemd[2533]: app-flatpak-org.mozilla.firefox-4887.scope: Consumed 24.616s CPU time, 1.1G memory peak.
Jan 07 00:31:38 fedora gnome-shell[2709]: Can't update stage views actor unnamed [ClutterActor] is on because it needs an allocation.
Jan 07 00:31:40 fedora systemd[2533]: Started app-gnome-org.mozilla.firefox-5506.scope - Application launched by gnome-shell.
Jan 07 00:31:40 fedora systemd[2533]: Started app-flatpak-org.mozilla.firefox-5506.scope.
Jan 07 00:32:37 fedora PackageKit[1975]: daemon quit
Jan 07 00:32:37 fedora systemd[1]: packagekit.service: Deactivated successfully.
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Hi and welcome to :fedora: !

I’m assuming you’re on Fedora Workstation. After installing the OS, did you bring the system up to date? If not, you should bring it up to date first (with sudo dnf upgrade --refresh, or via GNOME Software), to make sure this is not an issue that was fixed in the meantime.

If the issue still occurs, what you could try is first log into the Google account with the default browser, and only afterwards try to set it up in GNOME Online Accounts.

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Hello and thanks,

Yes, Workstation… yes, up-to-date. Mozilla logged into account Google before starting the process. I just noticed a failed pop-up on the online accounts windows, may not be a new thing I just noticed it now.

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May or may not be related but when I restarted my F41 workstation this morning, gnome could no longer access my Google online account. And I could not re-authenticate.

I deleted my online account from gnome, rebooted and tried again. It then worked.

I have no idea what the problem was.