Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: KWallet doesn't recognise my password

[Mick]

On Tuesday 13 Dec 2016 11:35:33 Jörg Schaible wrote:
> J. Roeleveld wrote:
> > On Tuesday, December 13, 2016 11:10:31 AM Jörg Schaible wrote:
> >> Peter Humphrey wrote:
> >> > Hello list,
> >> >
> >> > Until this morning I've had no real problems with KMail and co. for
> >> > quite a while, but something's upset the wallet system so that my
> >> > password is no longer recognised when I start KMail-2. This is what
> >> > I've tried:
> >> >
> >> > 1.	Re-created a blank /home partition and restored from yesterday's
> >> > backup. (Yesterday's setup was working nicely.)
> >> > No difference, so:
> >> >
> >> > 2.	Deleted ~/kde4/share/apps/kwallet (while not running live) and
> >> > rebooted. No difference there either.
> >> >
> >> > Is there something I can restore from backup to enable me to use the
> >> > wallet again - perhaps something in /etc/ssl or /var/tmp? Maybe I need
> >> > to remerge the wallet packages, or maybe I'll have to create an
> >> > entirely new user for myself. I hoped I'd seen the last of that kind of
> >> > masochism.
> >> >
> >> > In case it's relevant, the appearance of this problem coincided with a
> >> > new kernel, 4.9.0, which I compiled as usual and rebooted. I just got a
> >> > blank screen. I had to revert to 4.8.14 and rebuild the associated
> >> > modules before I could boot, and then fsck ran to check all the file
> >> > systems.
> >>
> >> Just in case: Did you activate kwallet-pam?
> >
> > I don't think this is a requirement. I have this disabled and need to
> > enter the password twice. Once for kwallet-4 and once for kwallet-5.
>
> No, that's the point: If you enable it, all kwallet-4 based apps will fail.
> At least until 5.7. I've not tested 5.8 yet.
>
> Cheers,
> Jörg

This is what works here without any problems:

$ eix -l kwallet
[I] kde-apps/kwalletd
     Available versions:  
     (4)
            16.04.3   (4/16.04)^t	[aqua debug gpg]
       [M]~ 16.04.3-r1 (4/16.04)^t	[aqua debug gpg] Michael Palimaka 
<kensington@g.o> (12 Nov 2016) Depends on masked app-crypt/gpgme[cxx]
     Installed versions:  16.04.3(4)^t(10:27:17 08/20/16)(-aqua -debug -gpg)
     Homepage:            https://www.kde.org/
     Description:         KDE Password Server

[I] kde-apps/kwalletmanager
     Available versions:  
     (4)
            15.04.3-r1 (4/15.04)	[aqua debug +handbook]
     (5)
            16.04.3	[debug +handbook]
       ~    16.04.3-r1	[debug +handbook]
       ~    16.08.3	[debug +handbook]
     Installed versions:  16.04.3(5)(09:27:22 08/20/16)(handbook -debug)
     Homepage:            https://www.kde.org/
     Description:         KDE Wallet management tool

[I] kde-apps/signon-kwallet-extension
     Available versions:  
     (5)
            16.04.3	[debug]
       ~    16.08.3	[debug]
     Installed versions:  16.04.3(5)(08:51:14 08/20/16)(-debug)
     Homepage:            https://01.org/gsso/
     Description:         KWallet extension for signond

[I] kde-frameworks/kwallet
     Available versions:  
     (5)
            5.26.0    (5/5.26)	[debug gpg +man test]
       ~    5.28.0    (5/5.28)	[debug gpg +man test]
       [M]~ 5.28.0-r1 (5/5.28)	[debug gpg +man test] Michael Palimaka 
<kensington@g.o> (12 Nov 2016) Depends on masked app-crypt/gpgme[cxx]
     Installed versions:  5.26.0(5)(15:11:59 10/15/16)(man -debug -gpg -test)
     Homepage:            https://www.kde.org/
     Description:         Framework providing desktop-wide storage for 
passwords

[I] kde-plasma/kwallet-pam
     Available versions:  
     (5)
            5.8.3	[debug +oldwallet]
       ~    5.8.4	[debug +oldwallet]
     Installed versions:  5.8.3(5)(10:46:42 12/10/16)(oldwallet -debug)
     Homepage:            https://www.kde.org/
     Description:         KWallet PAM module to not enter password again

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Regards,
Mick