KDEwallet no longer takes my password, help!

[cdupree]

Things were going swimmingly until a couple of reboots ago. Then I started getting some error message from kdewallet that was too quick to write down. Now when I enter the password for kdewallet it simply ignores me and nothing that needed a password (e.g. kmail) works. I'm also now having trouble mounting my encrypted external hard drives.

Any suggestions or pointers would be appreciated!

[Buddlespit]

You can try creating a new wallet, then deleting your old wallet. Or you can try to purge kwallet, then delete ~/.kde/share/apps/kwallet/kdewallet.kwl, then reinstall kwallet.

Or you can wait until someone else comes up and gives you a much better answer.

[cdupree]

Hey, thanks for the suggestion! It sounds promising. But what do you mean by "purge"? Is that removing the program? I just started up and found that now I can't even get the wallet manager program to run from the K menu. It ran yesterday...

[Buddlespit]

Purging is removing the program or app and all of it's configuration files. You do it with Muon by highlighting the app, right-clicking and choosing "Purge". Or, if you prefer to use the command line:

$ sudo apt-get purge kwallet

As an aside, "~/.kde/share/apps/kwallet/kdewallet.kwl" means "/home/<your username>/.kde/share/apps/kwallet/kdewallet.kwl". /home/<your username>/ can be shortened on the command line with ~/ .