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From: Stefano Crocco <stefano.crocco@×××××.it>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] KWallet doesn't recognise my password
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 08:11:47
Message-Id: 4813448.LGFtpXajH7@linux
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] KWallet doesn't recognise my password by Peter Humphrey
1 On Monday 12 December 2016 13:18:46 Peter Humphrey wrote:
2 > Hello list,
3 >
4 > Until this morning I've had no real problems with KMail and co. for quite a
5 > while, but something's upset the wallet system so that my password is no
6 > longer recognised when I start KMail-2. This is what I've tried:
7 >
8 > 1. Re-created a blank /home partition and restored from yesterday's
9 backup.
10 > (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.
15 > No difference there either.
16 >
17 > Is there something I can restore from backup to enable me to use the wallet
18 > again - perhaps something in /etc/ssl or /var/tmp? Maybe I need to remerge
19 > the wallet packages, or maybe I'll have to create an entirely new user for
20 > myself. I hoped I'd seen the last of that kind of masochism.
21 >
22 > In case it's relevant, the appearance of this problem coincided with a new
23 > kernel, 4.9.0, which I compiled as usual and rebooted. I just got a blank
24 > screen. I had to revert to 4.8.14 and rebuild the associated modules before
25 > I could boot, and then fsck ran to check all the file systems.
26
27 Have you by any chance upgraded libgcrypt to 1.7.4? There's a bug report about
28 kwallet:5 and libgcrypt 1.7.4 [1]. I had exactly the same issue yesterday and
29 solved it by downgrading libgcrypt to 1.7.3.
30
31 I hope this helps
32
33 Stefano
34
35 [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=602502

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Re: [gentoo-user] KWallet doesn't recognise my password Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>
Re: [gentoo-user] KWallet doesn't recognise my password Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>