KDE 4.1: Evolution no longer saves password; keyring doesn't work?

Gilboa Davara gilboad at gmail.com
Thu Aug 7 17:40:02 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 10:22 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 16:45 +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 16:31 +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> > > Hello all,
> > > 
> > > Does anyone have any idea why evolution no longer saves passwords? Does
> > > it still use gnome-keyring for password storage?
> > > Every time I start evolution I get a two password prompts - one for POP3
> > > and the other one for SMTP. (Back in F8, I used to get gnome-keyring
> > > password request and that's it.)
> > > 
> > > - Gilboa
> > > P.S. KDE 4.1 from updates-testing.
> > 
> > Please ignore. Manually restarting gnome-keyring-daemon solved the
> > problem.
> 
> Could you elaborate? I'm having the same problem. Do you mean you
> restart gnome-keyring-daemon each time after logging in but before
> starting Evo?
> 
> poc
> 

Seems like it.
When you log on, start gnome-keyring-manager - you'll get access denied.
Kill the gnome-keyring-daemon and start it manually - and everything
works just fine.

I've yet to report it... and I'm not sure if it's a GNOME issue or a KDE
issue :(

- Gilboa




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