Kwallet problems keep me out of Kmail

[cdupree]

Okay, I tried chown'ing the file in /var/tmp but it doesn't exist. I tried removing Kwalletmanager with Muon (I don't see an application named KWallet in either Muon or Synaptic). What does it mean to purge it using Muon? It doesn't appear to be installed now, but when I rm /usr/bin/kwalletd and reboot KWallet starts right up again.

Here's what happens with a 'ps':

ps -ef | grep -i wallet
cdupree   2603     1  0 17:15 ?        00:00:00 kdeinit4: kwalletd [kdeinit]                   
cdupree   3448  2717  0 17:27 pts/2    00:00:00 grep --color=auto -i wallet

How do I get rid of this thing? It's as sticky as couscous.

[GreyGeek]

KWallet was driving me crazy as well, and not only with KMail. I use Kpgp and it was trying to be "helpful" there as well. So, I purged it using Muon and rebooted. To my surprise, when KMail loaded up in the system tray KWallet asked for the password again! Checking with Ksysmonitor I noticed that the purge did NOT remove kwalletd, the daemon. I deleted it and rebooted again. I was never bothered after that.

[Snowhog]

Open a console and type:

sudo chown -R cdupree:cdupree /var/tmp/kde-cdupree

[cdupree]

Thanks for the advice as usual, Snowhog! Unfortunately the behavior is unchanged. When I run Kwalletmanager from the K Menu it never starts; when I run it from the command line I get the following.

QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave.
QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave.
Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-cdupree" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
Error: "/tmp/kde-cdupree" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
Error: "/tmp/ksocket-cdupree" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
Error: "/tmp/kde-cdupree" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
kdeinit4: Shutting down running client.
Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString)
Error: "/tmp/ksocket-cdupree" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
Error: "/tmp/kde-cdupree" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave.
QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave.
Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-cdupree" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
kbuildsycoca4 running...
Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-cdupree" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-cdupree" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave.
QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave.
Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-cdupree" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString)
QDBusConnection: name 'org.kde.kwalletd' had owner '' but we thought it was ':1.9'

[2]-  Done                    sudo kwalletmanager
cdupree@myhome:~/.kde/share/config$ Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-cdupree" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.

Dunno if it's related but at the end of the reinstall of kwalletmanager I got these messages.

N: Ignoring file 'Release.key' in directory '/etc/apt/sources.list.d/' as it has an invalid filename extension
N: Ignoring file 'Release.key' in directory '/etc/apt/sources.list.d/' as it has an invalid filename extension

What next?

[Snowhog]

Remove the following two files:

~/.kde/share/apps/kwallet/kdewallet.kwl
~/.kde/share/config/kwalletrc

Re-install kwallet (if it is already installed):

sudo apt-get install --reinstall kwalletmanager

[cdupree]

I was starting to like Kmail and Kontact when Kwallet went wonky on me. I tried what a poster on this forum suggested and deleted the wallet, but Kwallet won't create a new one. When I ask to do so it requests a new password and I enter it twice, but no new wallet is created. When another application asks to use the wallet, the new-password dialogue appears again with the passwords already filled in, and whether I accept the filled-in text or re-enter it the operation fails.

[I should also have said that after my problems with Kwallet I completely removed it with Synaptic, then reinstalled it, with the same outcome.]

As a result I can start Kmail but I can't see my email, not even those that I thought I'd already downloaded copies of (though as I've only begun recently to use Kmail I might be misunderstanding). Kontact works fine in all other areas but Kmail is useless.

These days I'm keeping most of my passwords in KeePassX anyway so I don't really need to depend on Kwallet. But the last time I tried shutting off Kwallet and rebooting I was unable to access my encrypted external drives for a few days while I fiddled around looking for a solution. And I never really figured out why they started connecting again, which was a bit spooky.

Any suggestions or comments would be much appreciated!