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On Monday 12 Dec 2016 13:18:46 Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> Hello list, |
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> Until this morning I've had no real problems with KMail and co. for quite a |
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> while, but something's upset the wallet system so that my password is no |
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> longer recognised when I start KMail-2. This is what I've tried: |
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> 1. Re-created a blank /home partition and restored from yesterday's backup. |
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> (Yesterday's setup was working nicely.) |
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> No difference, so: |
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> 2. Deleted ~/kde4/share/apps/kwallet (while not running live) and rebooted. |
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> No difference there either. |
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> Is there something I can restore from backup to enable me to use the wallet |
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> again - perhaps something in /etc/ssl or /var/tmp? Maybe I need to remerge |
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> the wallet packages, or maybe I'll have to create an entirely new user for |
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> myself. I hoped I'd seen the last of that kind of masochism. |
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> In case it's relevant, the appearance of this problem coincided with a new |
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> kernel, 4.9.0, which I compiled as usual and rebooted. I just got a blank |
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> screen. I had to revert to 4.8.14 and rebuild the associated modules before |
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> I could boot, and then fsck ran to check all the file systems. |
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I wouldn't think the kernel is relevant to the kwallet problem. |
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I recall having to run a migration script or something, to migrate the |
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kwallet4 to kwallet5. Kmail is still using kwallet4. Did you update pam by |
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any chance? This should be something to look into for kwallet. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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