On Monday 25 Jan 2016 15:30:56 Neil Rickert wrote:
On 01/25/2016 11:20 AM, Chan Ju Ping wrote:
I always do an initial setup of Kwallet with GPG encryption, though in the latest upgrade, this has been automatically replaced with the simple passphrase method.
You have "kwallet4" and "kwallet5". The update of kmail left you using "kwallet5".
For me, "kwallet5" uses gpg encryption. But you probably set it up before gpg support was available for "kwallet5".
Good call. That was the missing package.
Here's what I would do in your situation:
1: Install kwalletmanager5 (if not already installed). This might remove kwalletmanager (the "4" version). Maybe run that one last time to be sure you have the settings that you want.
2: Using "kwalletmanager5", save the content of kwallet5 to a file. If you have an encrypted partition, that might be a good place to save it.
3: Delete "kwallet" related files from ".config" and ".local/share/". It might be best to do that while logged into Icewm or at a command line session, so that you are not logged into KDE.
4: Log back into KDE and reinitialized "kwallet". There should be an option to use "gpg".
5: Using "kwalletmanager5", read your saved kwallet content back in from where you saved it.
6: After checking that all is good, you can shred the saved copy of kwallet content ("shred" command).
I could re-engage the GPG setup, but after a few minutes of fudging around with trying to import the previous settings, I just ended up starting from scratch. Luckily I don't have many passwords saved. Thanks for the helpful guide.