Re: [Evolution] evolutio forgets my passwords every start from Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:39:53 -0800

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Mon, 2012-02-13 at 11:37 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-02-12 at 16:38 +0100, Paulo Crespi wrote:
> > I ran into the same problem after upgrading to evolution 3.2.1 on
> > OpenSuse 12.1 and KDE 4.7.2. After many (in my opinion useless)
> > attempts to solve the keyring issue, I eventually deleted gconf,
> > restarted evolution and set up my mail accounts. As expected Evolution
> > created new config files and from then on everything went more or less
> > fine. With or without seahorse or keyring daemon installed.
>
> The keyring is always installed as a dependency, AFAIK.
>
> Seahorse is certainly *not* required.  It is a [excellent] tool for
> visualizing and managing your keyring which otherwise is just a
> mysterious thing that exists under the covers.
>
> It would have been interesting to know if you had just deleted your
> default keyring via Seahorse and restarted if the problem would have
> gone away.
>
> >  I may be mistaken, but it seems Evolution does not override the gnome
> > configuration properly. I hope this is helpful. 
>
> I'd *guess* the problem was in the default keyring somehow.  Perhaps
> KDE's greeter doesn't initialize the keyring?  Don't know.

As has been commented several times on this list over the years, none of
KDE knows anything about the Gnome keyring. KDE has its own entirely
separate keystore, the KDE Wallet.

The existence of two subsystems with essentially the same functionality
but which don't communicate with each other is a constant irritant.
Every time I start Evo in a new login session I have to re-type my login
password *and* my Gnome keyring password (it used to be just one of
them, now it's both; I guess that's progress ...). There's some talk of
a new KDE-side package which will address this but I don't know the
details.

poc