Wallet not working after system crash

[Rex Dieter]

Emmett Culley wrote:

> On 09/07/2011 07:28 PM, Emmett Culley wrote:
>> This morning I had a system crash on a nearly up to date Fedora 15
>> machine.  After resetting the machine I could no longer use any app that
>> required wallet access.  It took me a while to figure out the cause and
>> only did after I removed and re-installed kopete (kdenetwork), after
>> which a wallet dialog did pop up, but was empty and had to be created
>> again.  Then I looked again at all the apps that wouldn't run and found
>> that they all would normally cause an access to the wallet, but instead
>> just timed out.
>> 
>> Even after updating the machine the problem persists.
>> 
>> Where can I look for possible corruption?  Or what can I do to cause the
>> wallet work again.  Is there a log I can review?
>> 
>> Emmett
>> 
> No one else has seem this? Suddenly, after system crash kwalletmanager no
> longer functions and prevents all processes that rely on access to the
> wallet to time out.
> 
> There must be some corruption that is preventing kwalletmanager from
> running.  Where can I look to find out what is going on?

the kwallet's themselves are stored in 
~/.kde/share/apps/kwallet/
that's where I'd first suspect there to be corruption

-- rex