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andras.vukics

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Registered: 2016-01-04

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Chromium forgets passwords after upgrade

After the last upgrade I run on December 27, chromium forgot all my passwords. I use plasma 5, and my chromium passwords are stored in a kwallet. Kwallet-manager tells me that my passwords are still stored there and the wallet is open and chromium gets connected to it. Yet, chromium tells me that it has no stored passwords.

The upgrade touched both kwallet and chromium:
kwallet (5.16.0-2 -> 5.17.0-1)
chromium (47.0.2526.80-2 -> 47.0.2526.106-2)

Does anyone know a solution or at least has experienced something similar at this update or ever earlier?

andras.vukics

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Registered: 2016-01-04

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Re: Chromium forgets passwords after upgrade

Update: starting chromium from konsole with

chromium --password-store=kwallet

has the effect of chromium rediscovering the passwords. This leaves two questions unanswered:
1.) Looking into kwallet was the default behaviour previously, but not anymore?
2.) Why did kwallet-manager indicate that chromium was connected even though it didn’t look for the passwords there?

ewaller

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Registered: 2009-07-13

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Re: Chromium forgets passwords after upgrade

That is interesting.  Question -- Now that you have passed that switch, does Chromium remember that state, or do you have to pass that switch every time?

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andras.vukics

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Registered: 2016-01-04

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Re: Chromium forgets passwords after upgrade

Sure enough, I need to pass it every time . I also tried

chromium --password-store=detect

but it didn’t work.

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: Chromium forgets passwords after upgrade

What are XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP and XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP set to?

andras.vukics

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Registered: 2016-01-04

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Re: Chromium forgets passwords after upgrade

The value of both variables is

KDE