Re: [gnukeyring-discuss] Recovering from a backup snafu

[Jochen H. <Hoe...@In...>]

On Thursday 02 June 2005 17:05, Ian Soboroff wrote:
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> My T2 suffered a bad crash, and I had to restore from backup.
> Unfortunately, something seems to have gone awry in my keyring
> database.
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> I can see all the records, but if I try to access one of them, Keyring
> crashes.=20

Does it happen for all records, or only for one record?

> I type in my password, and it validates (because if I have a=20
> typo it tells me that the password is wrong), but it crashes in
> "MemoryMgr.c, Line:3645, NULL handle".  I have to pin-reset at this
> point.

The error message doesn't really help :(

> If I install Keyring (and the libs) on freshly-hard-reset Palm, it
> lets me create a new password and new records fine.  But if I restore
> the Keys-Gtkr.pdb file, I get the error again.

There is one known problem, which I currently don't fully understand. The=20
HotSync Backup seems to merge the database from the Palm with that on the
PC and apparently it can lead to a weird problem:  If the password has been
changed on the palm the old password verification hash is still kept on the
PC.  After restoring from the backup it may happen that only the old passwo=
rd=20
is accepted as valid, but that password decrypts the entries to garbage.
I'm currently testing a small java program to remove the password verificat=
ion
hash from the database, see http://gnukeyring.sf.net/keyring-recover/

Do you think this could be the problem, i.e. is keyring only accepting an
old password?

Regards,
  Jochen

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Jochen Hoenicke, University of Oldenburg, 26111 Oldenburg, Germany
Email: hoe...@in...  Tel: +49 441 798 3124