https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504014
--- Comment #50 from Patrick Silva <bugsefor...@gmx.com> --- (In reply to bastimeyer123 from comment #48) > (In reply to Patrick Silva from comment #47) > > I installed kwallet 6.14.1-1 on Arch Linux a few hours ago. If I disable > > kwallet in its KCM, Chromium opens without any delay, but it does not load > > any url until reboot. And after reboot with kwallet disabled, Vivaldi > > browser does not open as expected with my current profile; I get the window > > seen in the attached screenshot instead. > > This is unlikely an issue with kwallet. > > You can't switch back-and-forth between different password stores in > Chromium-based applications, meaning you can't disable and enable kwallet > without "breaking" the data of your browser's user-data-dir. Once kwallet > has been enabled, Chromium will use it and encrypt sensitive user data (not > just passwords), and it will also translate old data from the unencrypted > "basic" password store that was used when kwallet was disabled. However, > when disabling kwallet again after it had been enabled, Chromium won't be > able to read sensitive user data anymore, as it has been encrypted, > resulting in a broken profile. Either keep kwallet enabled or create a new > user-data-dir. > > - > https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/master/docs/linux/ > password_storage.md > - https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Chromium#Force_a_password_store > - https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Chromium#Launch_a_new_browser_instance > > This back-and-forth was the reason why I reverted to older BTRFS system+home > snapshots until this issue got resolved, because it had messed with my > Chromium browser/application profiles while I was figuring out the cause of > the issue. Thanks for your informative comment. (In reply to Aleksey Kontsevich from comment #49) > (In reply to Patrick Silva from comment #47) > > Created attachment 181457 [details] > > I installed kwallet 6.14.1-1 on Arch Linux a few hours ago. If I disable > > kwallet in its KCM, Chromium opens without any delay, but it does not load > > any url until reboot. > > I had a similar issue with Chromium for some reason a while ago - it opened > a blank page on every URL - fixed by pressing F5 (reloading the page). Then > the issue went away. So it was not related to kwallet. Even creating a new tab and entering a url does not work. Unfortunately I need to keep kwallet enabled or use the browsers with a new profile. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
