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…
The password could be the same as your login password?
I would have assumed so, but it is not accepted.
Just to be sure, you didn’t either change your login password since your last reboot, right?
Nope.
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.