Signal Desktop broken after plasma6 upgrade

KWhat · l33t Joined: 04 Sep 2005 Posts: 657 Location: Los Angeles

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.

spica · Guru Joined: 04 Jun 2021 Posts: 322

If you're OK with losing all chat history, you can delete ~/.config/Signal and then relink with phone again.

tomtom69 · Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2024 6:23 pm Post subject:

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?

KWhat · l33t Joined: 04 Sep 2005 Posts: 657 Location: Los Angeles

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.

logrusx · Advocate Joined: 22 Feb 2018 Posts: 2231

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

asturm · Developer Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 9195

There was no manual migration necessary this time.

This looks like a problem unique to how signal-desktop is accessing kwallet.

logrusx · Advocate Joined: 22 Feb 2018 Posts: 2231