kmail can't store/retrieve the e-mail account passwords from kwallet

[Craig Magina]

Binary package hint: kdepim

This started after the recent 4.6.1 upgrade in natty. If you try and exit out of kmail/kontact it will say that kwallet isn't running, do you want to store the account password to a file. When first starting kmail it will ask for the account password.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: kmail 4:4.4.10-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-5.32-generic 2.6.38-rc6
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-5-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Mar 7 17:14:46 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha amd64 (20110307)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: kdepim
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Craig Magina (craig.magina)]

This seems to not occur 100% of the time and you can get around it by just quitting kmail and restarting it. Also, kwallet reports that an application has been trying to access it without success. No other application that uses kwallet seems to have this issue.

[Christian Mangold (neversfelde)]

Same problem here.

[Tim Prosser (tim-prosser)]

Can confirm this one - after upgrade of Kubuntu from Maverick to Natty.

KMail fails to fetch passwords from KWallet, KWallet reports that an application is 'misbehaving'.

Tried deleting the KMail and mail account folders from KWallet - KMail did recreate them but still fails to retrieve passwords once entered.

[marcmpub (marcmpub)]

Same problem here, can't anymore open kmail without having to re enter each an every time the passwords for each mail accounts
error message says too many failed attempts to open kwallet
among all other problem with this ubuntu release that for me is the worst

[rysiek (mikiwoz)]

I can confirm this problem here too, also on Natty Failwhale.

[Thomas Tanghus (tanghus)]

Also confirmed here on 10.04.

apt-cache policy kmail
kmail:
  Installed: 4:4.4.10-0ubuntu4
  Candidate: 4:4.4.10-0ubuntu4
  Version table:
 *** 4:4.4.10-0ubuntu4 0
        500 http://dk.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Thomas Tanghus (tanghus)]

*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=267797#c12

[Thomas Tanghus (tanghus)]

Comment number 9 has a temporary workaround.

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=267797#c9

[John Aldrich (jmaldrich)]

Thought I'd mention I am having this problem as well on Fedora 15, so it's NOT just an Ubuntu problem. The work-around doesn't look like it will work for me as my accounts already exist in KWallet.

[JanMalte (janmalte)]

Same here on 11.04 with KDE 4.6
and on my notebook running KDE 4.7 and KDEPIM 4.7 (KMail2)