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network-manager-applet package

nm-applet does not start on login after gnome-keyring was configurated with a empty password

Bug #549332 reported by i30817 on 2010-03-27

This bug affects 11 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	network-manager-applet (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

i30817@ubuntu:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu lucid (development branch)
Release: 10.04
i30817@ubuntu:~$ apt-cache policy network-manager
network-manager:
  Installed: 0.8-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 0.8-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
*** 0.8-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntumirror.dei.uc.pt/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
i30817@ubuntu:~$ apt-cache policy gnome-keyring
gnome-keyring:
  Installed: 2.92.92git20100322-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 2.92.92git20100322-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
*** 2.92.92git20100322-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntumirror.dei.uc.pt/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

After update gnome keyring must have reset the config files because it requested a new master password.
I decided to put a empty string so it wouldn't bore me on every login. However after reboot the nm-applet no longer started automatically (it is in the start programs with "nm-applet --sm-disable"). So i waited a day and updated again (there was a network manager update). No change. So i deleted all home hidden files, rebooted and still no change (the keyring still didn't ask me for a new master key, so that configuration should be elsewhere i guess).
Only been able to start the nm-applet from the command line, where it spams:
i30817@ubuntu:~$ nm-applet
** 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
** 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
** 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
** Message: <info> No keyring secrets found for Auto ThomsonDB5FDA/802-11-wireless-security; asking user.

** 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
** (nm-applet:1630): DEBUG: old state indicates that this was not a disconnect 0
** (nm-applet:1630): DEBUG: foo_client_state_changed_cb
^@** 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
** 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
** 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
** 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
** 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
** 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
** (nm-applet:1630): DEBUG: foo_client_state_changed_cb

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i30817 (i30817) wrote on 2010-03-27:

Forgot to mention, currently i'm configurated to autologin.

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i30817 (i30817) wrote on 2010-03-27:

syslog Edit (982.5 KiB, text/plain)

Here is the syslog

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Hannibal (pawel-sasin) wrote on 2010-04-02:

The same situation here.

I have a configured GSM connection with all the credentials saved in connection options (authentication and PIN). nm-applet refuses to autostart on login and if I run it by hand I get the same messages as in post #1 (nm-applet appears in taskbar). Then I cannot use my GSM connection (np-applet asks me for credentials notoriously, as if it could not see the saved options).

I've noticed also that if I run the keyring daemon by hand:

$ gnome-keyring-daemon -f
GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=/tmp/keyring-PTN1MI
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/keyring-PTN1MI/ssh
GNOME_KEYRING_PID=7595

[...]

and try to use my GSM connection, then I get an authentication request from the keyring daemon ('Enter password to unlock your login keyring') and everything is OK.

I guess that this is rather a problem with keyring than with NetworkManager.

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu lucid (development branch)
Release: 10.04
Codename: lucid

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i30817 (i30817) wrote on 2010-04-02: Re: [Bug 549332] Re: nm-applet does not start on login after gnome-keyring was configurated with a empty password

I reinstalled and it works now. Hope it continues.
Then again i don't recall the new install asking for a master password yet.

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Jim Utter (jutter) wrote on 2010-05-07:

I'm affected by this as well but i don't have an empty password. If I run the same procedure above of:

   gnome-keyring-daemon -f
     then
   nm-applet
     (enter same password as login password)

it then works. I'm just a general user and not really sure what the purpose of the keyring is but rather simply looking for a fix so the nm-applet will auto-start on login. Is there one as reinstalling is not an option?

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acidrums4 (acidrums4) wrote on 2010-05-17:

I have the same issue but with mail-notification-applet, under Gentoo: mail-notification doesn't read (and write) passwords from gnome-keyring (Each 5 minutes mail-notifications asks for the password of my mailboxes). When I log out and log in again (without restarting), mail-notification works normally and can read and save passwords. It is a problem of gnome-keyring, not a problem of nm-applet.

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NeTgUeSh (netguesh) wrote on 2010-06-03:

I have the same issue but with bzr (using ssh) under Ubuntu Lucid.

** Message: secret service operation failed: The name org.freedesktop.secrets was not provided by any .service files
bzr: ERROR: gnomekeyring.IOError:

*** Bazaar has encountered an internal error. This probably indicates a
    bug in Bazaar. You can help us fix it by filing a bug report at
        https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+filebug
    attaching the crash file
        /home/LOGIWAYS/mfigueiredo/.cache/crash/bzr-20100603122523-2330.crash
    and including a description of the problem.

The crash file is plain text and you can inspect or edit it to remove
private information.

$PROMPT > gnome-keyring-daemon -f # on a terminal, and then
$PROMPT > bzr push # on a another terminal works fine.

This bug is already tracked : https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=611002

After testing several solution (google is my friend), this workaround works on my Ubuntu.