I can confirm thus up to and including kde 3.5.4 on edgy. I was too dumb to track it down to kwalletmanager for a very long time - self- signed ssl certificates and passwords that I've specified should be remembered "forever" are not remembered. I just verified that starting kded manually as described here does restore the wallet.
** Changed in: kdeutils (Ubuntu) Status: Needs Info => Confirmed ** Bug 32846 has been marked a duplicate of this bug -- Wallet manager "losing" wallets https://launchpad.net/bugs/22400 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs