On Tuesday 13 Dec 2016 06:33:27 Mick wrote: > On Monday 12 Dec 2016 13:18:46 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. > > I wouldn't think the kernel is relevant to the kwallet problem.
No, nor I. I thought I ought to mention all the things that went wrong at once, except that I omitted to recount all the wrestling with UEFI booting. That one could have been the kernel. > I recall having to run a migration script or something, to migrate the > kwallet4 to kwallet5. Kmail is still using kwallet4. Did you update pam by > any chance? This should be something to look into for kwallet. -- Regards Peter
