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Bug#809964: all my passwords are gone



Control: Severity -1 important

Hey,

you data is not lost, so critical is too much. 
Normally the import wizard should work without any issue, if the recommended 
kde-runtime is installed. Because you need the old KWallet4 daemon (/usr/bin/
kwalletd) running for the migration.

If the auto migration do not work, than you can access the old data in the 
kde4 path and import them directly to the new kwallet5:
~/.kde/share/apps/kwallet/*kwl

You can also stop/retrigger the automigration by delete/add the part in 
~/.local/kwalletrc:
[Migration]
alreadyMigrated=true

other than that please enable debugging via kdebugsettings and please also 
search for upstream bugreports on bugs.kde.org.

hefee


On Dienstag, 6. Februar 2018 21:38:17 CET Tomas Pospisek wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> originally I've posted this as a follow up to
> #863844, however #809964 seems to be the more appropriate place.
> 
> Here goes the same comment as in 863844, slightly adapted:
> 
> * before upgrading from jessie to stretch I've checked the release notes
>    there seems to be no mention of kwallet in the notes
> * then I've upgraded from jessie to stretch
> * when I start kwalletmanager it comes up empty
>    * all my passwords seem to be gone
> * when I select File -> Import a wallet, nothing happens, no dialog shows up
> * when I select File -> Import XML, nothing happens, no dialog shows up
> 
> I think this bug report should have severity critical as people will
> loose (access?) to all of their passwords, unless the do an export before
> the upgrade. Severity critical would have prevented kwalletmanager from
> entering stretch, which would have been the right thing IMO.
> 
> Also the release notes should warn about this problem and suggest to export
> the passwords before upgrading.
> 
> And there should be a NEWS file coming with kwalletmanger warning about this
> and strongly suggesting an export.
> 
> At this point I do not know how to recover the passwords from kwallet. Looks
> like 100% data loss at this point.
> 
> I'll proceed now and will set the severity of this bug to critical.
> 
> Suggestions for recovery procedures for the passwords are wellcome.
> 
> Thanks,
> *t
> 
> PS: By some divine intuition I did export the passwords from kwallet
>      before the jessie -> stretch upgrade.

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