On Thursday 14 Jul 2011 23:38:16 Myrosia Dzikovska wrote:
I recently upgraded to OpenSuse 11.4. I use KMail, and store my SMTP password using KWallet. But for some reason Kmail is having problems.
When I start the system up, kwallet opens immediately, because I use it for my wireless password as well. This does not have any problems: the wallet opens, the I get the wireless connection, and it all works. The wallet configuration shows that KMail is always allowed access.
But when I start KMail and try to use it to send email, it immediately pops up a dialog box asking for my SMTP password. I type it in, and click the option "store password". Kmail responds that KWallet is not available, and would I like to store it in plain text file? Then KWallet pops up a notification saying "There have been repeated failed attempts to gain access to a wallet. An application may be misbehaving."
I tried going into KWalletManager and deleting all fields related to kmail, then saving the password from scratch. It did not help.
Anyone experienced something like that?
Thanks,
Myrosia
Hi Myrosia, I had a similar problem once. To fix I did the following: Exit Kwallet. Renamed ~/.kde4/share/apps/kwallet to ~/.kde4/share/apps/kwallet-old Rename ~/.kde4/share/config/kwalltrc to ~/.kde4/share/config/kwalltrc-old Rename ~/.kde4/share/config/kwalltmanagerrc to ~/.kde4/share/config/kwalltmanagerrc to~/.kde4/share/config/kwalltmanagerrc- old Restart Kwallet and set up the initial password. Now open the Wallet manager from the system tray, enter the newly created wallet and select File/ Merge Wallet and navigate the the saved wallet in ~/.kde4/share/apps/kwallet-old to get all your saved passwords back. Now relaunch Kontact and all should be OK. If so the backup files are no longer needed and can be deleted. If it does not work then try logging out of your KDE session after completing the rename steps above, before relaunching Kwallet. HTH Kind regards Dave