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On Tuesday, December 13, 2016 11:10:31 AM Jörg Schaible wrote: |
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> Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > Hello list, |
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> > |
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> > Until this morning I've had no real problems with KMail and co. for quite |
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> > a 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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> > |
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> > 1. Re-created a blank /home partition and restored from yesterday's |
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> > backup. (Yesterday's setup was working nicely.) |
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> > No difference, so: |
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> > |
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> > 2. Deleted ~/kde4/share/apps/kwallet (while not running live) and |
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> > rebooted. No difference there either. |
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> > |
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> > Is there something I can restore from backup to enable me to use the |
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> > wallet again - perhaps something in /etc/ssl or /var/tmp? Maybe I need to |
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> > remerge the wallet packages, or maybe I'll have to create an entirely new |
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> > user for myself. I hoped I'd seen the last of that kind of masochism. |
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> > |
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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 |
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> > before I could boot, and then fsck ran to check all the file systems. |
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> Just in case: Did you activate kwallet-pam? |
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I don't think this is a requirement. I have this disabled and need to enter |
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the password twice. Once for kwallet-4 and once for kwallet-5. |
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