[SOLVED] More KDE Wallet perplexities

[tomcloyd]

Problem: Every time I boot, KDE Wallet asks for a password. It has NEVER been obvious what that password might be...i.e., where it comes from. Not in the 10+ years I've been using Kubuntu at various times. This creates problems. This is basically one of those unhelpful error messages Windows used to torment us with. I wish someone would fix this.

Research uncovered the possibility that my account password might be what it's wanting. Tried it. No go. THEN I remembered that I'd very recently changed that password. I tried the previous password. That did it.

1. What do I have to do update KDE Wallet's password expectations to the current password?
2. Will this stop this incessant glitch at boot-time? If not, what do I need to do?

Secondary problem (that may be related): After a fresh load of KB 22.04, I decided to change my user account password. Doing it through system settings doesn't work. As I recall, this is an old problem. Still not fixed? Sigh.

Research revealed a command line way to change the password, and THIS worked, but it lead to the KDE Wallet problem.

I relate this simply because it might be useful to someone at somepoint.

Thanks in advance for any help offered with the persisting KDE Wallet popup problem above!

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Acer Swift SF314-54
Operating System: Kubuntu 22.04
KDE Plasma Version: 5.24.6
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.92.0
Qt Version: 5.15.3
Kernel Version: 5.15.0-50-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i5-8250U CPU @ 1.60GHz
Memory: 7.6 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® UHD Graphics 620
[2022-10-11]

[claydoh]

When installing the OS, the Kwallet password normally is set to the user password created during that process.

Try changing the KDE Wallet password from System Settings.

Go there, then click the 'Launch Wallet Manager' button, then change the password to match.
A common, decades-long cure-all many people like to do is to set a blank password here, and never see a prompt again, even if they change user passwords

As to changing your user password, this won't actually take effect until you reboot. If it isn't working from the GUI interface, then there is some sort of bug in KDE.

[tomcloyd]

Thanks again for the quick response.

You advise "Try changing the KDE Wallet password from System Settings....click the 'Launch Wallet Manager' button, then change the password to match."

I had previously looked in System Setting for anything at all that related to KDE Wallet. I saw nothing. It was the same this time. Then I recalled that yesterday I uninstalled something having to do with the wallet, in a desperate attempt to get this annoyance to go away. I returned to Muon, found it, and reinstalled it. THEN I had something to work with in System Settings, and followed your instructions. Problem solved.


Thanks again....