Re: Evolution on Suse 10.2 Keeps Forgetting Passwords

Arun Khan wrote:

Arnold Griffin wrote:

On Sun, 07 Jan 2007 12:37:20 +0100, Gonzalo wrote:

Evolution has become a real nuisance because it keeps forgetting its
passwords. I have tried to recreate the account, even created a new
user to avoid carring any settings from my existing account to no
avail.

Anybody else seeing this? Any tips to solve it?

I am running KDE in case that matters.

This is due to a bug in the keyring handling in KDE.

Solutions:

1 Use Gnome

2. This was discussed on the openSUSE mailling list and the solution
proposed was this (worked for me):

create the following file in /home/<username>/bin

#!/bin/bash
eval `gnome-keyring-daemon`
export GNOME_KEYRING_SOCKET
export GNOME_KEYRING_PID
evolution

I use KDE desktop and was experiencing this annoying behavior.
Thanks for the script. I installed it yesterday. At start of
evolution (the first time) with this script, I was prompted to create
a gnome
default keyring. On subsequent starts, it prompts for "gnome default
keyring" password. Looking in the HOME dir found
file ./.gnome2/keyrings/default.keyring. I guess, this file has
nothing to do with KDE.

To me this is a new functionality not present in openSuSE 10.0 w.r.t
to
evolution. I guess, this feature was added to evolution 2.8.2 or
required (where applicable) by gnome applications in gnome 2.16
framework.

Just curios why it is considered to be a KDE bug. Should not Gnome
apps (or KDE apps or any other X apps) work with *any* window manager
as long as the necessary libs are installed?


I am now invoking evolution via a small shell script as described above.

However, the above solution worked on my desktop for a couple of days
only and now it is back to it's old behavior i.e. the first time I
access (after starting my desktop) the POP3/SMTP servers in each of the
profiles in evolution, I have to supply the password for that
respective server.

This is even though, I have a default gnome-default-keyring defined.

Any ideas/suggestion to debug this problem further.

Thanks,
--
-- Arun Khan
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