[CentOS] KOrganizer problems

Tue Mar 11 13:59:54 UTC 2008
Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com>

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.
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try moving kwallet settings out of the way so that they are recreated...

mv ~/.kde/share/apps/kwallet ~/.kde/share/apps/kwallet-bak

Craig