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J. Roeleveld wrote: |
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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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>> > Until this morning I've had no real problems with KMail and co. for |
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>> > quite a while, but something's upset the wallet system so that my |
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>> > password is no longer recognised when I start KMail-2. This is what |
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>> > 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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>> > 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 |
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>> > to remerge the wallet packages, or maybe I'll have to create an |
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>> > entirely new user for myself. I hoped I'd seen the last of that kind of |
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>> > masochism. |
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>> > |
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>> > In case it's relevant, the appearance of this problem coincided with a |
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>> > new kernel, 4.9.0, which I compiled as usual and rebooted. I just got a |
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>> > blank screen. I had to revert to 4.8.14 and rebuild the associated |
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>> > modules before I could boot, and then fsck ran to check all the file |
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>> > 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 |
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> enter the password twice. Once for kwallet-4 and once for kwallet-5. |
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No, that's the point: If you enable it, all kwallet-4 based apps will fail. |
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At least until 5.7. I've not tested 5.8 yet. |
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Cheers, |
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Jörg |
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