gnome-keyring 2.30.1 woes.

[Jonathan Chen]

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 01:59:50PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On 5/13/10 6:26 PM, Jonathan Chen wrote:
> > On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 06:00:25PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> >> On 5/13/10 5:01 PM, Jonathan Chen wrote:
> >>> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 08:49:34AM +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote:
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> I recently upgraded to GNOME 2.30, and I'm experiencing problems with
> >>>> gnome-keyring. The mail-notification daemon continually asks me for a
> >>>> password, and if I provide one, it then informs me that it is unable
> >>>> to save it.
> >>>>
> >>>> If I invoke:
> >>>>     "Applications > Accessories > Passwords and Encryption Keys"
> >>>>
> >>>> The app informs me that "Couldn't communicate with key ring daemon". 
> >>>>
> >>>> ~/.xsession-errors has the following:
> >>>>     ** Message: init gpgme version 1.2.0
> >>>>     ** Message: secret service operation failed: The name org.freedesktop.secrets was not provided by any .service files
> >>>>     ** Message: secret service operation failed: The name org.freedesktop.secrets was not provided by any .service files
> >>>>
> >>>>     ** (seahorse:14613): WARNING **: couldn't get default keyring name: Error communicating with gnome-keyring-daemon
> >>>
> >>> Looks like this is the problem:
> >>>     http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=314641
> >>>
> >>> Anyone here have workarounds?
> >>
> >> Did you follow the steps in /usr/ports/UPDATING on properly updating
> >> gnome-keyring?  If not, then what you're seeing would be expected.
> > 
> > Yes, I did notice and followed the steps in UPDATING. In fact, when I
> > noticed the problem, I even forced a rebuild of gnome-keyring and
> > libgnome-keyring just in case there was something I missed.
> > 
> > If I kill all gnome-keyring-daemon processes and start it up by hand
> > as suggested by the link, the problem goes away; BUT this then
> > introduces a problem with ssh-authentication ... :(
> 
> This should be fixed now.

Actually, with the latest gnome-keyring-daemon patch, the error
changed to:

    ** Message: secret service operation failed: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.

However, I did find a workaround. I invoked:
  "System > Preferences > Startup Applications"

and added an entry that slotted into the first of the list, eg "A Hack
for Gnome Keyring", which had the command "gnome-keyring-daemon". This
solved the communication problem.

Hope that helps anyone else that sees this problem.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>                    Once is dumb luck.
                                                 Twice is coincidence.
             Three times and Somebody Is Trying To Tell You Something.