Bug#553312: gnome-keyring breaks svn commit

[Norbert Preining]

reassign 553312 subversion
retitle 553312 subversion asks GNOME keyring passphrase even if authentication is present
# it does not break unrelated software anymore, just itself
severity 553312 important
thanks

On Mo, 02 Nov 2009, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> It must mean that SVN somehow queries gnome-keyring. I have no idea by
> which mechanism, but using strace should point you at what it is doing.

Right of course, sorry for bugging *you*, it is indeed a failure of
subversion. Subversion supports that feature now, but the password
I use is saved in the usual auth tokens, so it should have no need
to access the gnome keyring.

Reassigned.


For the subversion maintainers: I am using
	svn://user@server/repo
access method and the password for user at server is saved under 
~/.subverions/auth, so no need to contact the gnome-keyring-daemon
should arise. 

THe problem turned up when I logged in with some alternative method 
(fingerprint) and thus the gnome-keyring was not unlocked and thus
doinig an svn commit looked like:
	$ svn commit -m"some commit msg"
	Password for 'login' GNOME keyring:<ENTER>
	svn: Commit failed (details follow):
	svn: GNOME Keyring is locked and we are non-interactive
	$
Which is *really* bad. The password is there, so why is it not used?

Thanks a lot and all the best

Best wishes

Norbert

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