J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Tuesday, December 13, 2016 11:10:31 AM Jörg Schaible wrote: >> 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? > > I don't think this is a requirement. I have this disabled and need to > enter the password twice. Once for kwallet-4 and once for kwallet-5.
No, that's the point: If you enable it, all kwallet-4 based apps will fail. At least until 5.7. I've not tested 5.8 yet. Cheers, Jörg
