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…
That is what I feared. I tried both my login password and a blank password, and it refuses to open. I’ll wait to see if anyone has previously found a way to magically open it again, but I will probably need to scrap my Signal database and relink my computer without the chat history. It’s a bummer, but not a major issue for me.