KWallet Problem, doesn't accept a password
Anyways, I am having a really weird problem with KWallet on Kubuntu 18.04. When I installed Kubuntu on my new laptop I don't recall ever being asked to set a wallet password. Then after a few days it began spitting out incorrect password errors randomly and demanding I enter the wallet password, including on boot in order to access my wifi passphrase. Nothing I enter works including a blank password.
I tried disabling KWallet as many have suggested but now whenever I boot up I have to manually enter my wifi password, which is obnoxious.
I saw online that if a wallet had become corrupted I could use KWalletManager to create a new wallet and switch to that one, but it froze when I tried to create a new wallet. Then I found online that I could "trick" KDE into creating a new wallet by manually deleting the old one. So I tried that and created a "classic, blowfish encrypted file." I entered a blank password, because I don't want to be bothered by it, and then on reboot, I get the same error: it demands a kwallet password that shouldn't exist.
Now, once again, every time I boot up I am greeted with a broken KWallet password prompt which doesn't accept anything including a blank password.
I don't really want to have to tear out whole system components (like using wpa_supplicant directly over NetworkManager) just to work around KWallet since the whole point of installing Kubuntu was to save me these headaches, but apparently you can't store WPA passphrases with NetworkManager without KWallet[?]
The specific error I get back is -9, read error, possibly a bad password. My first thought was disk corruption but this disk is new, I've been using it for a few months now with no trouble, and I am seeing no other errors or problems indicating anything wrong with the disk.
Any thoughts on how to either fix this or work around this without having to find a new way to manage network connections?
I tried disabling KWallet as many have suggested but now whenever I boot up I have to manually enter my wifi password, which is obnoxious.
I saw online that if a wallet had become corrupted I could use KWalletManager to create a new wallet and switch to that one, but it froze when I tried to create a new wallet. Then I found online that I could "trick" KDE into creating a new wallet by manually deleting the old one. So I tried that and created a "classic, blowfish encrypted file." I entered a blank password, because I don't want to be bothered by it, and then on reboot, I get the same error: it demands a kwallet password that shouldn't exist.
Now, once again, every time I boot up I am greeted with a broken KWallet password prompt which doesn't accept anything including a blank password.
I don't really want to have to tear out whole system components (like using wpa_supplicant directly over NetworkManager) just to work around KWallet since the whole point of installing Kubuntu was to save me these headaches, but apparently you can't store WPA passphrases with NetworkManager without KWallet[?]
The specific error I get back is -9, read error, possibly a bad password. My first thought was disk corruption but this disk is new, I've been using it for a few months now with no trouble, and I am seeing no other errors or problems indicating anything wrong with the disk.
Any thoughts on how to either fix this or work around this without having to find a new way to manage network connections?
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