Bugzilla – Bug 567938
gnome keyring integration broken since recent update
Last modified: 2010-01-18 14:40:43 UTC
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/4.0.249.43 Safari/532.5 After recently updating gnome apps to 2.29.4 from G:F repo, gnome-keyring integration seems broken. Pidgin keeps asking me for passwords for all accounts every time even if I save and I never get prompt to enter keyring password. Evolution works as expected though. I use kde4 desktop btw. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install latest gnome packages from G:F repo. 2. Login and start pidgin. Actual Results: Pidgin asks for account passwrods. Expected Results: It gnome-keyring should ask for master password and pidgin should read from saved passwords.
This is probably because of the new gnome-keyring. Do you have libgnome-keyring and gnome-keyring 2.29.4?
I have following packages. gnome-keyring-2.29.4-64.3.x86_64 libgnome-keyring0-2.29.4-3.1.x86_64 libgnome-keyring-devel-2.29.4-3.1.x86_64 gnome-keyring-lang-2.29.4-64.3.noarch gnome-keyring-pam-2.29.4-64.3.x86_64
Btw, is gnome-keyring-daemon running in your session before you start pidgin?
It's not started before pidgin. If I start manually and then restart pidgin, I get following error dialogs. An application wants access to the keyring 'default', but it is locked. Then I have to enter the passwords again.
Can you try the pidgin package from home:vuntz:11.2-testing? It should not use the keyring if it's not running.
The main thing is shouldn't new gnome-keyring work as it was working before? So there are 2 things. 1) gnome-keyring is not starting and 2) applications are not able to read from gnome-keyring as it doesn't ask to unlock.
Hrm. So, issue 2 is https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=605287 I think. It might be fixed in git, but I'm unsure. Need to think a bit about issue 1, especially in the pidgin context -- a lot of people want to use pidgin without gnome-keyring...
Stanislav disabled the keyring usage in pidgin for openSUSE (since the patch is not going upstream and we don't want to maintain something that upstream won't use), so closing.
I hope at least saving passwords will work and it won't ask for passwords each time pidgin starts.
(In reply to comment #9) > I hope at least saving passwords will work and it won't ask for passwords each > time pidgin starts. Yes, it will be saved and so it should work again.