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From: "Jörg Schaible" <joerg.schaible@×××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: KWallet doesn't recognise my password
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 10:12:14
Message-Id: o2ohh5$f6d$1@blaine.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] KWallet doesn't recognise my password by Peter Humphrey
1 Peter Humphrey wrote:
2
3 > Hello list,
4 >
5 > Until this morning I've had no real problems with KMail and co. for quite
6 > a while, but something's upset the wallet system so that my password is no
7 > longer recognised when I start KMail-2. This is what I've tried:
8 >
9 > 1. Re-created a blank /home partition and restored from yesterday's
10 > backup. (Yesterday's setup was working nicely.)
11 > No difference, so:
12 >
13 > 2. Deleted ~/kde4/share/apps/kwallet (while not running live) and
14 > rebooted. No difference there either.
15 >
16 > Is there something I can restore from backup to enable me to use the
17 > wallet again - perhaps something in /etc/ssl or /var/tmp? Maybe I need to
18 > remerge the wallet packages, or maybe I'll have to create an entirely new
19 > user for myself. I hoped I'd seen the last of that kind of masochism.
20 >
21 > In case it's relevant, the appearance of this problem coincided with a new
22 > kernel, 4.9.0, which I compiled as usual and rebooted. I just got a blank
23 > screen. I had to revert to 4.8.14 and rebuild the associated modules
24 > before I could boot, and then fsck ran to check all the file systems.
25 >
26
27
28 Just in case: Did you activate kwallet-pam?
29
30 Cheers,
31 Jörg

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KWallet doesn't recognise my password "J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org>