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Date:      Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:24:45 +0400 (MSD)
From:      Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>
To:        Michal Varga <varga.michal@gmail.com>
Cc:        gnome@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: GNOME 2.26 available for FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.0904141419060.62790@woozle.rinet.ru>
In-Reply-To: <3f1fd1ea0904131951u5e6b211dlbb55af484d91e63b@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <1239343955.4933.113.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0904140344130.2317@woozle.rinet.ru> <1239667718.1304.66.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0904140427160.2317@woozle.rinet.ru> <1239669463.1304.67.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0904140439310.2317@woozle.rinet.ru> <1239670126.1304.75.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0904140451240.2317@woozle.rinet.ru> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0904140504380.2317@woozle.rinet.ru> <3f1fd1ea0904131951u5e6b211dlbb55af484d91e63b@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, Michal Varga wrote:

MV> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 3:13 AM, Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru> wrote:
MV> > Dear Joe Marcus,
MV> >
MV> > DM> JMC> What versions of gnome-keyring and seahorse do you have?
MV> > DM>
MV> > DM> marck@revamp:/usr/ports> pkg_info | egrep 'gnome-keyring|seahorse'
MV> > DM> gnome-keyring-2.26.0 A program that keeps passwords and other secrets
MV> > DM> seahorse-2.26.0     GNOME application for managing encryption keys (PGP, SSH)
MV> >
MV> > After
MV> >
MV> > portupgrade -f seahorse gnome-keyring
MV> >
MV> > and reboot
MV> >
MV> > still the same effect...
MV> >
MV> > Of course, I can wipe packages installed and set it up from scratch, but I
MV> > would prefer a bit safer way if at all possible ;-)
MV> >
MV> Well, I have no idea what a "Terminal remote login" in this particular
MV> context is, so this may not be of any help, but I've seen this issue
MV> before:
MV> 
MV> "Before the upgrade, I had once pop-up asking for my key passphrase, then
MV> let me use this private key during my (home) session without further asking..
MV> Now, when I try to connect to the host which even possibly want to check
MV> whether I want to present some key there, I got the pop-up. I even checked that
MV> I can connect to the host in question using plain xterm, and have usual
MV> password qiery."
MV> 
MV> I've been in similiar situation some time ago, when new
MV> gnome-keyring/seahorse (it started with one of the recent versions,
MV> don't remember exactly when, but definitely before 2.26 was
MV> introduced) for some surely interesting reason insisted on creating a
MV> very own keyring every other reboot - while originally you were using
MV> one default keyring (let's call it "default") for storing your
MV> passwords, now gnome-keyring kept creating a new one named "login" and
MV> always set it as the default one.
MV> 
MV> That "login" keyring was even more special in that that nothing stored
MV> in it ever worked, it still kept asking for passwords and even then
MV> was not able to use them (and lost them on the next reboot anyway..
MV> Maybe that's a feature, don't know, don't care). I've run into this on
MV> a few different machines, every time I needed to open 'seahorse', get
MV> to Passwords tab, delete the "login" keyring, set the original
MV> "default" as the default keyring (first time I wiped them all and
MV> created a clean one to be sure, but as it turned out later, this
MV> wasn't needed), after that, passwords worked fine again. This
MV> procedure again and again for a few days/reboots, until seahorse
MV> miraculously stopped this madness and let my default keyring be, well,
MV> default (yes, just like that).
MV> 
MV> Anyway, if you weren't there yet, check seahorse gui for what keyring
MV> are you really using, maybe you've hit the same issue with the "login"
MV> stupidity..

Yes, seahorse shows me two keyrings; however, deleting "login" one does not fix 
the situation: if in the Terminal I try to open tab which ssh's to outer host, 
I immediately got the popup with 

"There was an error creating the child process for this terminal"

nothing in this tab is started, and tab is just hanging.

"login" keyring sometimes got recreated, sometimes not, but the effect above is 
totally reproducible.

-- 
Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
[ FreeBSD committer:                                 marck@FreeBSD.org ]
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