Evolution no longer able to get passwords from keyring.

[philb]

Beginning with an update to my F18/KDE install a week or so back, I can't use evolution. It seems to revolve around not being able to log into my gmail hosted account. In the past, the password was stored on my keyring. Don't know if the keyring became corrupt or if Evolution is no longer asking it for the password, or if the keyring isn't becoming unlocked. I no longer have to manually unlock the keyring, but I understand that the unlocking mechanism was incorporated into the main login. I really am unsure about that, but it's what I've read in my research.

So far, I haven't really found any solid clues as to exactly what is happening.

I don't have anything important on the keyring, just the login to my gmail account.

Do I need to start over with that? How? Is there some obvious thing I'm not seeing?

I'd sure like to stop using the gmail web interface...

Thanks.

---------- Post added at 01:58 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:52 AM ----------

Further information.

I used the KDE Wallet Manager to open the wallet and unlock it.

Now, Evolution starts with an error message when it tries to access gmail.

Error While Performing Operation
IMAP command failed: Unknown command z64if7730296yhl.185

It may have nothing to do with the passwords.

---------- Post added at 02:16 AM ---------- Previous post was at 01:58 AM ----------

Can't say which part of authentication was broken, but I started a new Wallet and deleted my gmail profile and recreated it. I was prompted for two passwords (normal) and it's syncing my mail.

Resolved.

---------- Post added at 03:05 AM ---------- Previous post was at 02:16 AM ----------

I had to delete the filters as well. Yuck.

[rapiddescent]

I've got the same problem - it's because evolution asks gnome-keyring (not kde wallet) for the password(s) and when you run evolution under KDE the gnome-keyring service is not running and "just hangs". It has been a problem since before F18 actually. If you log in with a gnome session and evolution works properly then you have the same problem as me,

I've tried running various scripts, e.g. http://geek.co.il/2011/04/25/using-e...keyring-issues - but that now does not work between reboots.

and more discussion is here: http://gnome-evolution-general.17744...td4656621.html

---------- Post added at 09:26 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:16 AM ----------

the odd thing is that if you log in using a GNOME wm and run evolution, then logout and then login into KDE - it works fine. There is one extra process running:

$ ps -elf | grep gnome
4 S wilsonc   3884     1  0  80   0 - 117528 poll_s 09:18 ?       00:00:00 /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon --start --foreground --components=secrets
1 S wilsonc   4881     1  0  80   0 - 80657 poll_s 09:22 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon --daemonize --login
0 S wilsonc   5471     1  0  80   0 - 32298 poll_s 09:22 ?        00:00:00 /usr/libexec/at-spi2-registryd --use-gnome-session
0 S wilsonc   5492     1  0  80   0 - 38488 hrtime 09:22 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon --start --foreground --components=secrets
0 S wilsonc   5610  5279  0  80   0 - 27296 pipe_w 09:22 pts/0    00:00:00 grep --color=auto gnome

which is this one: /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon --daemonize --login

I have a kde autostart settings for startup and shutdown that have been starting gnome-keyring for the last 6 months or so and this has stopped working at about the same time as the original posters did.

---------- Post added at 12:54 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:26 AM ----------

I think I've worked it out.

/etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-keyring-pkcs11.desktop

This file controls when the gnome-keyring can be used:
(NB: I have removed lots of multi-language comment lines)

Comment[en_GB]=GNOME Keyring: PKCS#11 Component
..
Exec=/usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon --start --components=pkcs11
OnlyShowIn=GNOME;Unity;MATE;KDE
X-GNOME-Autostart-Phase=Initialization
X-GNOME-AutoRestart=false
X-GNOME-Autostart-Notify=true
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Bugzilla=GNOME
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Product=gnome-keyring
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Component=general
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Version=3.6.3

and I changed this line to include KDE:
OnlyShowIn=GNOME;Unity;MATE;KDE