On Saturday 18 November 2006 23:04, Arthur Pemberton wrote: >On 11/19/06, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Saturday 18 November 2006 03:02, Anne Wilson wrote: >> >On Saturday 18 November 2006 04:51, Gene Heskett wrote: >> >> Greetings; >> >> >> >> I'm going batty (its not a long drive) because when I first >> >> installed FC6 and ran kmail I didn't want to fool with kwallet at >> >> the time, so I let kmail save the passwords, presumably in kmailrc. >> >> >> >> But now that I've had a chance to get caught up, I thought I'd see >> >> if this kwallet thingy was usefull. So I went into the control >> >> center and reenabled it. After it took the machine down 4 times in >> >> a row trying to save the password, I got tired of that (I do learn >> >> fast in that sort of a situation) and tried to tell it to forget >> >> it. But now kmail is coming up with a requestor for every message >> >> I send, asking me to allow it to save the password in its own file. >> >> If I click yes, the mai, is sent, if I cancel, the mail is not >> >> sent. And when I try to resend it, the new requestor comes up >> >> asking for a password and if I don't cat >> >> my .fetchmailrc so I can copy/paste it, the mail isn't sent. >> >> >> >> I just shut it off again, and hopefully that will be the end of >> >> that, but really, doesn't this utility thats such a PITA have a >> >> purpose except crashing the whole darned box? >> > >> >Gene, there appears to be something very wrong with your install. As >> > others have said, kwallet works fine. I've never had it cause any >> > problem whatsoever. >> > >> >Anne >> >> I think this may be related to similar problems I had with kde in >> general when I installed FC2 way back when. Then, just waving the >> mouse over a printing function in the menu's would kill half of kde >> and x would have to be restarted. I went so far as to build kde from >> scratch, installing 3.3.0 entirely in my root partition, and ran it >> till 2 weeks ago. The problem wasn't fixed, and it turned out to need >> a local build of a newer version of cups that never did make it into >> FC2. But that konstruct built and installed kde just sat there and >> ran, and never, ever suffered from any of the gripes folks were >> squawking about on this list at the time. The only thing that didn't >> work, ever, was the spell checker, and now, with a fresh, from scratch >> FC6 install, it still isn't working. Its enabled according to the >> control center settings, but its not correcting or otherwise >> indicating in any way that its running other than a ps -ea says its >> process # 5410 right now. It does work if I run it from the tools >> pulldown, but I think I've seen it highlighting miss-spelled words on >> other installs. >> >> Anyway, it somewhat OT since kwallet=crashomatic is the subject. >> >> -- >> Cheers, Gene >> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: >> soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." >> -Ed Howdershelt (Author) >> Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above >> message by Gene Heskett are: >> Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. > >Something is very wrong with your system...please do not blame kwallet > I wouldn't, if it didn't reboot me instantly when I try to bring it into use. What file should I rm to get it back to a sqaure one startup? >-- >Fedora Core 6 and proud -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
