Bug#580156: tools unable to connect to the daemon

[Marcin Szewczyk]

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 11:42:54PM +0900, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le mardi 11 mai 2010 à 23:15 +0200, Marcin Szewczyk a écrit :
> > I've tested the thing with gnome-session for a couple of minutes. It
> > worked in that configuration. So I started unsetting environmental
> > variables. Seahorse stopped connecting do the keyring after unsetting
> > DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS.
> 
> Of course it would, since programs accessing the keyring use D-Bus to
> connect to the daemon.

I don't think it's so obvious. Previously everything worked fine without
exporting the DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS variable during Openbox startup.

dbus-launch man states:
If  DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS  is not set [...] or find the existing bus
address on the X display or in a file in ~/.dbus/session-bus/.

So there are other mechanisms of finding a DBus session bus. For example
the d-feet tool has to do it somehow.

> The real problem if you don’t use a session manager is that the daemon
> itself is not started at login time. AIUI it is only pre-loaded by the
> PAM module, and if the daemon is not started a few seconds after, it
> exits and the password information is lost.

Now it works without the PAM module. It was obsolete as the new version
seems not to add itself to common-session in pam.d anymore.

I admit - now I start gnome-keyring-daemon during Openbox startup, but
for another reason - to avoid dangling daemon processes executed on
every connection request.

Without launching gnome-keyring-daemon during Openbox startup everything
still works, but after killing X server I have daemons still running.
When a tool needs a keyring a daemon process starts.

The password information is unimportant here. The problem wasn't with
connecting to a locked keyring but in connecting itself.
Without the PAM module the keyring just doesn't get unlocked during
login. But first access to the keyring ends with a dialog asking me for
the keyring password. After supplying it the keyring is unlocked and
tools work as usual.
 

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