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. -- Joost
