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KWhat l33t
Joined: 04 Sep 2005 Posts: 657 Location: Los Angeles
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Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2024 2:05 pm Post subject: Signal Desktop broken after plasma6 upgrade |
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When I launch signal desktop after upgrading to plasma6, I am presented with a Database Error because the keyring backend has changed from kwallet5 to kwallet6.
Quote: | Detected change in safeStorage backend, can't decrypt DB key (previous: kwallet5, current: kwallet6) |
I then instructs me to either switch to the previous desktop environment or running signal with --password-store="kwallet5". Using the password-store flag works, but I would like to find a more permanent solution. Using signal's built in "Delete data" setting manged to reset the app but didn't fix the issue. |
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spica Guru
Joined: 04 Jun 2021 Posts: 330
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Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2024 5:42 pm Post subject: |
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If you're OK with losing all chat history, you can delete ~/.config/Signal and then relink with phone again. |
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tomtom69 Apprentice
Joined: 09 Nov 2010 Posts: 253 Location: Bavaria
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Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2024 6:23 pm Post subject: |
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Same here, works with kwallet5 keyring backend, however this option needs to be added to the desktop entry after every update (which is very often).
As far as I understood a database password is stored in kwallet5 keyring. So a solution would be to transfer this password manually from kwallet5 keyring to kwallet6 keyring, but I did not find where it is stored (if possible I would like not to lose all chat history).
So for the workaround: will kwallet5 keyring be discontinued soon? |
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KWhat l33t
Joined: 04 Sep 2005 Posts: 657 Location: Los Angeles
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Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2024 7:34 pm Post subject: |
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Blowing away the ~/.config/Signal folder seems to have fixed the issue. Sure I lost all the conversations, but most of them disappear in a few days anyway. |
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logrusx Advocate
Joined: 22 Feb 2018 Posts: 2414
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Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2024 6:24 am Post subject: |
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Previous migration from 4 to 5 included something like creating a new wallet in 5 and importing the passwords from the old one. Maybe here you can do something similar. Don't ask me how, I don't use those. It's upt to you to figure it out and test it.
Best Regards,
Georgi |
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asturm Developer
Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 9263
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Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2024 6:25 am Post subject: |
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There was no manual migration necessary this time.
This looks like a problem unique to how signal-desktop is accessing kwallet. |
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logrusx Advocate
Joined: 22 Feb 2018 Posts: 2414
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Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2024 10:42 am Post subject: |
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asturm wrote: | There was no manual migration necessary this time.
This looks like a problem unique to how signal-desktop is accessing kwallet. |
Well, Signal devs are pretty responsive, that's my impression, so it might be a good idea to file a bug.
Best Regards,
Georgi |
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tranquilcool Veteran
Joined: 25 Mar 2005 Posts: 1246
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Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2024 11:24 am Post subject: |
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Edit:
/home/USER_NAME/.config/Signal/config.json
FROM
{
"mediaPermissions": true,
"mediaCameraPermissions": true,
"encryptedKey": "***************************>
"safeStorageBackend": "kwallet5"
}
TO
{
"mediaPermissions": true,
"mediaCameraPermissions": true,
"encryptedKey": "***************************>
"safeStorageBackend": "kwallet6"
} _________________ this is a strange strange world. |
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tomtom69 Apprentice
Joined: 09 Nov 2010 Posts: 253 Location: Bavaria
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Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2024 5:43 pm Post subject: |
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Whoa ... great!!! :D
You just saved the chat history of 4 PCs here.
Thank you! |
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