Chromium
Version 111.0.5563.64 (Developer Build) Mageia.Org 8 (64-bit)

It refuses to store passwords even though I have told it to do so. I go
to password manager and nothing is there. I imported a bunch of
passwords from Chrome, and nothing was stored. Chrome works fine with
this.

The one weirdness is that when I open chromium, often I get a request
for password for kdewallet. I oput in the password, that password
request windows shuts But nothing seems to work.

On Sat, 20 Apr 2024 12:31:26 -0400, William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> wrote:

> Chromium
> Version 111.0.5563.64 (Developer Build) Mageia.Org 8 (64-bit)
>
> It refuses to store passwords even though I have told it to do so. I go
> to password manager and nothing is there. I imported a bunch of
> passwords from Chrome, and nothing was stored. Chrome works fine with
> this.
>
> The one weirdness is that when I open chromium, often I get a request
> for password for kdewallet. I oput in the password, that password
> request windows shuts But nothing seems to work.

First double check the file ownership.
Use "tree -ifaugp" piped to grep -v to exclude the files that have your id and
group.

https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Never_use_just_su

Regards, Dave Hodgins

On 2024-04-20, David W. Hodgins <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Apr 2024 12:31:26 -0400, William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> wrote:
>
>> Chromium
>> Version 111.0.5563.64 (Developer Build) Mageia.Org 8 (64-bit)
>>
>> It refuses to store passwords even though I have told it to do so. I go
>> to password manager and nothing is there. I imported a bunch of
>> passwords from Chrome, and nothing was stored. Chrome works fine with
>> this.
>>
>> The one weirdness is that when I open chromium, often I get a request
>> for password for kdewallet. I oput in the password, that password
>> request windows shuts But nothing seems to work.
>
> First double check the file ownership.
> Use "tree -ifaugp" piped to grep -v to exclude the files that have your id and
> group.

I seen nothing there .

>
> https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Never_use_just_su
>
> Regards, Dave Hodgins

On Sun, 21 Apr 2024 05:10:17 -0000 (UTC) William Unruh wrote:

> On 2024-04-20, David W. Hodgins <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:
>> On Sat, 20 Apr 2024 12:31:26 -0400, William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Chromium Version 111.0.5563.64 (Developer Build) Mageia.Org 8 (64-bit)
>>>
>>> It refuses to store passwords even though I have told it to do so. I
>>> go to password manager and nothing is there. I imported a bunch of
>>> passwords from Chrome, and nothing was stored. Chrome works fine with
>>> this.
>>>
>>> The one weirdness is that when I open chromium, often I get a request
>>> for password for kdewallet. I oput in the password, that password
>>> request windows shuts But nothing seems to work.
>>
>> First double check the file ownership.
>> Use "tree -ifaugp" piped to grep -v to exclude the files that have your
>> id and group.
>
> I seen nothing there .

Don't know if this helps to solve the problem, but I had a similar issue
with MGA9. I got asked for wallet pw whenever I invoked chromium browser,
and, even worse, opening firefox as a different user was terribly slow.
Therefore I opened a shell and made a ' su - newuser', and then 'firefox'.
To open this window took 10..20 seconds.

After removing the packages reading *keyring* (rpm -e --nodeps gnome-
keyring lib64gnome-keyring) everything is fast again and no annoying
password requestsany more.

Best regards,

Markus

On 2024-04-21, William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> wrote:
> On 2024-04-20, David W. Hodgins <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:
>> On Sat, 20 Apr 2024 12:31:26 -0400, William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> Chromium
>>> Version 111.0.5563.64 (Developer Build) Mageia.Org 8 (64-bit)
>>>
>>> It refuses to store passwords even though I have told it to do so. I go
>>> to password manager and nothing is there. I imported a bunch of
>>> passwords from Chrome, and nothing was stored. Chrome works fine with
>>> this.
>>>
>>> The one weirdness is that when I open chromium, often I get a request
>>> for password for kdewallet. I oput in the password, that password
>>> request windows shuts But nothing seems to work.
>>
>> First double check the file ownership.
>> Use "tree -ifaugp" piped to grep -v to exclude the files that have your id and
>> group.
>
> I seen nothing there .
>
>
>>
>> https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Never_use_just_su
>>

I finally got disgusted and erased all of .config/chromium directory,
restarted chrommium, and inported the passwords from chrome. It worked.
But this is clearly a demolition ball approach. This destroyed
everything in chromium that I had set up. In addition to this, the
totally stupid message pops up every time I open chromium.

See results closer to you?
To get the closest results, let Google use your device's precise location.
Use precise location
Not now

Which is really really annoying. Does anyone know how to block this? It
is clearly an attempt by Google to track the user

On Sun, 21 Apr 2024 01:10:17 -0400, William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> wrote:
> On 2024-04-20, David W. Hodgins <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:
>> On Sat, 20 Apr 2024 12:31:26 -0400, William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> wrote:
>>> Chromium
>>> Version 111.0.5563.64 (Developer Build) Mageia.Org 8 (64-bit)
>>> It refuses to store passwords even though I have told it to do so. I go
>>> to password manager and nothing is there. I imported a bunch of
>>> passwords from Chrome, and nothing was stored. Chrome works fine with
>>> this.
>>>
>>> The one weirdness is that when I open chromium, often I get a request
>>> for password for kdewallet. I oput in the password, that password
>>> request windows shuts But nothing seems to work.

>> First double check the file ownership.
>> Use "tree -ifaugp" piped to grep -v to exclude the files that have your id and
>> group.

> I seen nothing there .

Is this the same as https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27702

In my case I'm running chromium under plasma but I have always had kwallet
disabled in this install, so the passwords are stored in chromiums sql database
in ~/.config, and that's working fine for me.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

On Sun, 21 Apr 2024 13:02:19 -0400, William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> wrote:
<snip>
> I finally got disgusted and erased all of .config/chromium directory,
> restarted chrommium, and inported the passwords from chrome. It worked.
> But this is clearly a demolition ball approach. This destroyed
> everything in chromium that I had set up. In addition to this, the
> totally stupid message pops up every time I open chromium.
>
> See results closer to you?
> To get the closest results, let Google use your device's precise location.
> Use precise location
> Not now
>
> Which is really really annoying. Does anyone know how to block this? It
> is clearly an attempt by Google to track the user

I don't recall ever seeing that with chromium-browser.

Go through the settings. Start by searching for "location", but it's a good
idea to review, and if wanted change each all settings, not just location
specific settings.

That's one of the first things I do when starting use of any browser. I disable
most things, as I avoid things like desktop specific password managers.

Regards, Dave Hodgins