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. >
Just in case: Did you activate kwallet-pam? Cheers, Jörg
