Version: 0.10.3 (using KDE 3.4.2, Mandrake Linux Cooker i586 - Cooker) Compiler: Target: i586-mandriva-linux-gnu OS: Linux (i686) release 2.6.12-12mdksmp I have three accounts set up in Kopete: MSN, Yahoo, and Google Talk (through Jabber). When I initially set it up, i configured it to remember by passwords for this account. I told it to secure the passwords using Kwallet (I think), but it no longer even prompts me for the Kwallet password. When I start Kopete it does nothing. When I try to change my status to "online" it still does nothing. No friends appear in the list. I have successfully used Kopete in the past, but have since tried to upgrade my version of KDE (which I am also having problems with). Not sure how the two are related, but I did have to re-setup Kopete after the attempted reinstall of KDE.
2 possibilities: 1) The configs are messed up. We don't support downgrading KDE versions - so if you partially upgraded KDE, then backed out and downgraded again, it's likely that your configs (kopete, kwallet) have been modified to suit the new KDE version, and now don't work with the old one. Solution: set up a new user, and reconfigure Kopete with the account details. If that works, then move aside or delete at least $HOME/.kde/share/config/kopeterc and $HOME/.kde/share/apps/kopete, possibly all of $HOME/.kde and reconfigure. 2) Your KDE installation is all messed up. Your system may now consist of a mishmash of different versions of KDE programs and libraries, resulting from desperate attempts to rpm -e things, rpm -I --force, and or hand installation with make install. This cannot work. If you've done this then turn to your distro's support channels to get help cleaning things up. It can be done without a full reinstall but it may require patience.
Both possibilities are non-bugs.
it's not the first time i heard about this problem related to kwallet that can't get opened. (kopete is waiting indefinitively for kwallet to be open, and so, nothing seems to happen)
Can you paste the debug output of kopete that appears when you run in in a terminal
I cannot reproduce
i faced a similar problem here is the console output X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 169 Major opcode: 145 Minor opcode: 3 Resource id: 0x0 Failed to open device X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 169 Major opcode: 145 Minor opcode: 3 Resource id: 0x0 Failed to open device Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-vikram" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0. kopete: ERROR: Communication problem with kopete, it probably crashed. vikram@vikram-laptop:~$ Very strange! got a DCOPReply opcode, but we were not waiting for a reply! Very strange! got a DCOPReply opcode, but we were not waiting for a reply! kwalletmanager works. it opened properly when i ran the command "kwalletmanager" i tried for yahoo and gmail accounts. is there a bug which has the uid 1000 instead of uid 0 problem? Also it did not try to open wallet manager when we configure the password,which is strange.