Does a new user account work the way it is supposed to? On Sat, 10 Jun 2023, 07:33 Victor Ivanov, <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello fellow penguins, > > I have to admit I'm at my wits' end with KWallet. This thing has been > driving me insane for the last couple of weeks, roughly since the > upgrade to Plasma 5.27 or shortly after. > > Every time I log in, it refuses to automatically open and prompts for > a password whenever an application wants to read secrets. Admittedly, > this is under Wayland which, following from recent news re this being > the Gentoo preference, I decided to give a try. But this also happens > under X11, so I doubt it's got anything to do with Wayland. > > I've tried everything I can think of: > - I've double checked the auto unlock guide in the Gentoo Wiki, made > sure PAM rules are in place and kwallet-pam is installed. Which should > be all good regardless, as it used to work just fine; > - I've also oneshot all of: kde-plasma/ , kde-frameworks/ , kde-apps/ > , and anything returned by "eix -I# pam", "eix -I# xdg", and "eix -I# > dbus" > - when the above failed to yield any meaningful resolution, I repeated > the one-shot step this time with "--noconfmem" and re-reviewed any > changes from the default configs; > - finally, I nuked all of my $HOME settings under ~/.config, ~/.cache, > and ~/.local and started from scratch; > - and yes, the KWallet was set up and re-setup (plenty of times) with > Blowfish with the same password as my login; > > The irony is, I have an equivalent Gentoo setup on a separate machine, > also moved to Wayland at the same time as I keep them both up to date > at the same intervals, and it works flawlessly. I've recursively > diff'd all config files under /etc between the two hosts and, other > than some minor, unrelated host-specific differences, everything is > identical, including configs under /etc/pam.d. > > I can get it to kind of work with a blank password, but that's not the > point and is not a viable "solution". Even then, it still doesn't auto > open, but at least it doesn't produce annoying prompts to open. > > I've always despised KWallet for its flaky behaviour but for the last > few years it hadn't given me any issues up until now. > > I'm truly bewildered. Is there anything I am missing? > > Best Regards, > Victor > >
