After a system start today, I was suddenly prompted with KDE Wallet requiring a password. I have not needed this before, and I could not seem to enter a password it would accept (“Error code -9: Read error - possibly incorrect password.”). I can’t remember setting this up, but it might have been something I did when I first set up my system. However, I would either have remembered it or stored the password in my main password manager, and there is no trace of it there.
To fix this, I created a new wallet and set that to be the default. Now, it works, and it is generally fine as it was not used for much, but I have one big issue: Signal used kwallet as its credentials manager, and now I can’t open the Signal database.
Before I accept my losses and recreate the database from scratch, I wanted to know if anyone have experienced anything similar, and if there are some tips to restoring the original keychain? As I said, I don’t know the password, so my guess is that I’m outta luck…
I would have assumed so, but it is not accepted.
Hmm, the only other thing I can think of is that the wallet somehow got corrupted. Did you do a normal shutdown / restart? Is this after an update?
I did an update over the week end, but I am pretty sure I rebooted between then and startup today. It is a long time since I’ve had to force shutdown.
Just to be sure, you didn’t either change your login password since your last reboot, right?
Nope.