[kde-freebsd] Kwallet manager cannot open or create wallet after 3.5.7 upgrade

[Michael Nottebrock]

On Friday, 6. July 2007, David Booth wrote:
> On Friday 06 July 2007, you wrote:
> > On Friday, 6. July 2007, David Booth wrote:
> > > On Friday 06 July 2007, you wrote:
> > > > On Friday, 6. July 2007, David Booth wrote:
> > > > > On Friday 06 July 2007, you wrote:
> > > > > > On Friday, 6. July 2007, David Booth wrote:
> > > > > > > After a seemingly successful portupgrade bringing kde up
> > > > > > > to 3.5.7 on a 6.2 Stable system, Kwalletmanager can no
> > > > > > > longer open existing wallets or create new ones.  There
> > > > > > > is no option to open a wallet under the file menu and
> > > > > > > execution of the New Wallet option seems to do nothing.
> > > > > > > There are no error messages, just no action.  Can anyone
> > > > > > > provide some guidance as how to troubleshoot this
> > > > > > > problem?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Is it just kwalletmanager or do applications fail to open
> > > > > > wallets as well? What does 'dcop kded kwalletd' yield?
> > > > >
> > > > > Applications fail to open wallets as well.
> > > > >
> > > > > # dcop kded kwalletd
> > > > > object 'kwalletd' in application 'kded' not accessible
> > > >
> > > > This means kded isn't running - probably because it crashed.
> > > > Have you restarted KDE since the update yet? Do you get a
> > > > DrKonqi message when you start KDE telling you that kded
> > > > crashed?
> > >
> > > Yes, I have restarted KDE multiple times and get no message on
> > > startup about kded or any other problem.
> > >
> > > I can manually start kded after KDE is up and kwallet now works
> > > correctly, but the next restart of KDE again has no kded running.
> >
> > I suspect kded might be crashing right away after being launched by
> > kdeinit then. Never happened to myself, but from what I remember
> > reading on various mailing lists, you could try:
> >
> > - Running kbuildsycoca manually, perhaps with the --noincremental
> > switch. Do this without manually launching kded.
> > - Delete or manually resave your session: First, manually run kded,
> > then, in KControl/KDE Components/Session Manager, switch the 'On
> > Login' setting to 'Restore manually saved session', apply and
> > select 'Save Session' from the K-Menu. If that doesn't work, try
> > again with 'Start with an empty session' instead.
> >
> > More suggestions from the mailing list audience are much
> > appreciated at this point, since I never hit that particular
> > problem.
>
> No luck with the above suggestions.  I also tried creating a new user
> so I would start with a virgin configuration and the problem is the
> same.

In that case, can you look for kded-related error messages in the 
~/.xsession-errors file (or just clear it out, start a KDE session and attach 
the output if you're not sure what to look for)?

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