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Friday, June 22nd 2007, 7:05pm

kwallet: no longer finds .kwl files

[New to the forum. Did a search, but didn't find this discussed elsewhere. Hope this is the correct sub-forum.]

I'm using kwalletmanager from kdeutils-3.5.5-0.1.fc5. Everything was working fine until about a week ago, and now when I fire up kwalletmanager, it shows no wallets. The .kwl files are still there (~/.kde/share/apps/kwallet).

There don't appear to be any menu items to "re-connect" to an existing wallet. I'd try "File/New Wallet...", but I'm concerned that it will empty the existing wallet. I did a search (find ~/.kde | xargs grep kwallet), but didn't find anything relevant.

Anyone have suggestions?

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Friday, June 22nd 2007, 10:10pm

An update ...

I saved my .kwl files to another directory, with the plan to use "File/New Wallet ..." for the same names, close the app, remove the emptied files, replace them with the original files, and reopen the app. However, selecting "File/New Wallet ..." does nothing: no dialog, no action. Selecting "Settings/Configure Wallet ..." brings up a dialog with "Select wallet to use as default", with an empty combo box. I hit "New ...", then entered in the old file name for the .kwl file (minus the extension), then hit OK, but the combo box is still empty.

If I attempt to drag one of the wallets from konquerer, I get the warning ...

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That wallet file already exists. You cannot overwrite wallets.

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Wednesday, September 12th 2007, 8:24pm

I found the solution via an unexpected side-trip: when I tried to print from kedit, a dialog reported that kdeprintd was not running. I couldn't find this daemon, nor kded, in either "service" or the xinetd listings. In kcontrol, under "KDE Components"/"Service Manager", none of the "Startup Services" were running. I tried selecting these one at a time and starting them, and finally kcontrol locked up. At that point, almost no kde apps were working.

I logged out and logged back in (but did not reboot the system), and all of the kde "Startup Services" were then running. On a whim, I retried kwalletmanager, and it was working.

I'd like to read a concise explanation about how kde services start (or, in this case, don't start). As I mentioned, I can't find them under xinted, and "service --status-all | grep kde" shows nothing, even though the kde services are now running.