Comment 48 for bug 1299604

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Paul Judd (sukiipooru) wrote : Re: [Bug 1299604] Re: evolution keeps asking for password

On Wed, 2016-07-27 at 13:20 +0000, wmccarty wrote:
> I am also wondering if this has to do with the way evolution starts. My
> KDE has evolution mail starting automatically, and with wifi the
> connection is not always started beforehand or is in the process of
> starting when evolution sometimes starts. From time to time, evolution
> will start with the little offline button in the bottom left as showing
> offline, even though I have internet connectivity. Pressing the button
> in these cases does nothing, and sometimes also that means that the
> keyring has not been opened. Since I noticed that you have to unlock the
> keyring, I have had one or two instances where the keyring 'Default'
> (where evo stores its pws), and 'Login' refuse to open. Despite after
> several instances of reboot, kill task, etc, the improper start of
> evolution seems to have corrupted the keyring, and I have to either
> delete the keys or reset the keyring by deleting the keyring files. For
> devs that think that this is purely a keyring issue, I'd challenge you
> to investigate the case of improper startup, however, I am not sure if
> the move to systemd will change the startup bugs, but then again I
> cannot test it on this machine because the AMDGPU drivers won't work
> with my APU and FGLRX drivers are no longer supported on newer releases
> (Past 15.04), plus 15.10 is no longer supported :(
>

The password question comes up before I have even started Evolution. I
have no on-start programs running.