My file/print/mail server is CentOS. My laptop is Mandriva 2008.0. I have smb shortcuts loaded by fstab to give instant access to my home directory and a data directory on the server. All was working well, after some initial problems with firewall and selinux, until yesterday.
After finding from the logs that someone was trying to get into my imap server I decided that, although they hadn't succeeded, my personal login was too weak, and I should harden it. I changed the password on the server, as user and as smbuser, then on the laptop. My fstab mounts work perfectly with the adjusted auth.servername.anne file, and I can read my mail, but I use a diary on the server, and I'm having problems there.
The reminder daemon that should start when kde initialises tells me that it can't access the diary. It's not clear exactly what is happening to korganizer within kontact. I can see the diary, and reloading it doesn't blank it out, yet I get the message that access is denied. Attempting to run a test entry brings the denial message, but the entry shows, even after a shutdown and reload. The reminder, however, doesn't happen.
I should also say that since I changed the password on my laptop's kdewallet, that does not show in the taskbar. If I enter 'kdewalletmanager' in a konsole it shows in the taskbar, and indicates that the wallet is open. I'm not sure how this is connected with the korganizer problem, but I feel it must be.
I have looked through every log file I can, and can't see any reason for this. selinuxtroubleshooter doesn't show me anything relevant. I'm completely stuck for where to look next. All suggestions gratefully received.
Anne
On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 11:21 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
My file/print/mail server is CentOS. My laptop is Mandriva 2008.0. I have smb shortcuts loaded by fstab to give instant access to my home directory and a data directory on the server. All was working well, after some initial problems with firewall and selinux, until yesterday.
After finding from the logs that someone was trying to get into my imap server I decided that, although they hadn't succeeded, my personal login was too weak, and I should harden it. I changed the password on the server, as user and as smbuser, then on the laptop. My fstab mounts work perfectly with the adjusted auth.servername.anne file, and I can read my mail, but I use a diary on the server, and I'm having problems there.
The reminder daemon that should start when kde initialises tells me that it can't access the diary. It's not clear exactly what is happening to korganizer within kontact. I can see the diary, and reloading it doesn't blank it out, yet I get the message that access is denied. Attempting to run a test entry brings the denial message, but the entry shows, even after a shutdown and reload. The reminder, however, doesn't happen.
I should also say that since I changed the password on my laptop's kdewallet, that does not show in the taskbar. If I enter 'kdewalletmanager' in a konsole it shows in the taskbar, and indicates that the wallet is open. I'm not sure how this is connected with the korganizer problem, but I feel it must be.
I have looked through every log file I can, and can't see any reason for this. selinuxtroubleshooter doesn't show me anything relevant. I'm completely stuck for where to look next. All suggestions gratefully received.
---- try moving kwallet settings out of the way so that they are recreated...
mv ~/.kde/share/apps/kwallet ~/.kde/share/apps/kwallet-bak
Craig
On Tuesday 11 March 2008 13:59:54 Craig White wrote:
try moving kwallet settings out of the way so that they are recreated...
mv ~/.kde/share/apps/kwallet ~/.kde/share/apps/kwallet-bak
Do you mean that (which would remove the wallet) or do you mean the configs? I'll try the configs - should have thought of that :-) I have already tried renaming the existing wallet and starting a new one.
Anne
On Tuesday 11 March 2008 20:50:44 Anne Wilson wrote:
On Tuesday 11 March 2008 13:59:54 Craig White wrote:
try moving kwallet settings out of the way so that they are recreated...
mv ~/.kde/share/apps/kwallet ~/.kde/share/apps/kwallet-bak
Do you mean that (which would remove the wallet) or do you mean the configs? I'll try the configs - should have thought of that :-) I have already tried renaming the existing wallet and starting a new one.
The config files do not get recreated, so anything depending on it doesn't start. Renaming back to the original and restarting X did actually load the wallet, which is an improvement. Unfortunately I still don't have full access to my korganizer diary.
I now have three possible wallets, the original one, the new one, and one copied from another box. I'll experiment and report back.
Anne
On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 21:04 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Tuesday 11 March 2008 20:50:44 Anne Wilson wrote:
On Tuesday 11 March 2008 13:59:54 Craig White wrote:
try moving kwallet settings out of the way so that they are recreated...
mv ~/.kde/share/apps/kwallet ~/.kde/share/apps/kwallet-bak
Do you mean that (which would remove the wallet) or do you mean the configs? I'll try the configs - should have thought of that :-) I have already tried renaming the existing wallet and starting a new one.
The config files do not get recreated, so anything depending on it doesn't start. Renaming back to the original and restarting X did actually load the wallet, which is an improvement. Unfortunately I still don't have full access to my korganizer diary.
I now have three possible wallets, the original one, the new one, and one copied from another box. I'll experiment and report back.
---- You *might* want to move ~/.kde/share/apps/korganizer (with it not running of course), and then start it up, and it will create all new calendar file. Then you can 'open' the local file (it's an 'ics' file, something like std.ics in that folder).
perhaps you can open it separately, or import that file into your new calendar.
Craig
On Wednesday 12 March 2008 02:11, Craig White wrote:
You *might* want to move ~/.kde/share/apps/korganizer (with it not running of course), and then start it up, and it will create all new calendar file. Then you can 'open' the local file (it's an 'ics' file, something like std.ics in that folder).
perhaps you can open it separately, or import that file into your new calendar.
It was worth a try. I got the new calendar, imported the old one - nothing had changed. Then I went back to the laptop. I deleted the old connection and started a new one - this is a samba mounted file. Everything looked fine until it needed to reload, when I got an Access Denied. Nothing has changed.
This is driving me crazy. I've been accessing my diary this way for years. Maybe it's time for a bug report on the kontact 3.5.9 suite.
Anne
On Wednesday 12 March 2008 16:29, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Wednesday 12 March 2008 02:11, Craig White wrote:
You *might* want to move ~/.kde/share/apps/korganizer (with it not running of course), and then start it up, and it will create all new calendar file. Then you can 'open' the local file (it's an 'ics' file, something like std.ics in that folder).
perhaps you can open it separately, or import that file into your new calendar.
It was worth a try. I got the new calendar, imported the old one - nothing had changed. Then I went back to the laptop. I deleted the old connection and started a new one - this is a samba mounted file. Everything looked fine until it needed to reload, when I got an Access Denied. Nothing has changed.
This is driving me crazy. I've been accessing my diary this way for years. Maybe it's time for a bug report on the kontact 3.5.9 suite.
It seems not. The problem must be on this, the CentOS server. I set up my old server, recently retired and running Mandriva 2007.1, and pointed it to the diary on this box. It loaded, once, when I first set it up, but will not refresh, and I cannot write to it. Just as on the laptop, I get Access Denied.
What else can I check? Let me run through again so that you can see if I missed anything.
The problems started when I changed the passwords on the server.
The organizer is samba mounted. My home directory containing the diary is mounted on the desktop of the laptop, and samba is performing perfectly. I can navigate to the file, therefore the correct samba password is being passed when I log in. Smb4k can also allow access to the file.
If I use the desktop mount to navigate to the file I can Preview in Korganizer - and it is up to date, which the displayed version within Kontact is not.
There is nothing new in setroubleshooter.
/var/log/samba/ - every log written to today has been examined - nothing about a failed connection.
fail2ban was recently installed - no notifications of any kind have been received (I don't know whether local access would be covered).
I can't find any log in /var/log/ that gives any clue.
I'm absolutely stumped. I depend so much on korganizer.
Anne
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