On Monday 12 December 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.
Have you by any chance upgraded libgcrypt to 1.7.4? There's a bug report about kwallet:5 and libgcrypt 1.7.4 [1]. I had exactly the same issue yesterday and solved it by downgrading libgcrypt to 1.7.3. I hope this helps Stefano [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=602502
