Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problems with gnome-keyring-daemon

walt <w41ter@×××××.com> wrote:

> On 06/08/2014 11:01 PM, covici@××××××××××.com wrote:
> > Hi.  I have a problem where sometime after reboot, I get hundreds of
> > processes gnome-keyring-daemon --deamonize and this is without even
> > running gdm or gnome at all!  They complain about not being able to find
> > the display, but they all sit there and it may slow down my box, or at
> > least I am sure I should not have such.  Last time this happened I
> > killed them with seemingly no ill effect, but does anyone know the cause
> > for this and how to stop?  I don't mind if I am using gnome, to have
> > however many are necessary, but it seems kind of strange without gnome,
>
> I have exactly one instance of gnome-keyring-daemonize after booting up
> (no X session, just booting to console).
>
> I remember many months ago answering "yes" to some installation dialog
> asking me if I want to authenticate during bootup using gnome-keyring,
> but sadly I can't remember now who asked me that question :(
>
> The only clue I can think of is here:
>
> #grep -rI gnome /etc/pam.d/
> /etc/pam.d/system-login:auth            optional        pam_gnome_keyring.so
> /etc/pam.d/system-login:password        optional        pam_gnome_keyring.so
> /etc/pam.d/system-login:session         optional        pam_gnome_keyring.so auto_start
>
> There are more gnome-keyring entries in /etc/xdg/autostart/ but IIUC
> those are used only by X desktop programs. Maybe(?)
>
> Which logs does gnome-keyring-daemon complain to about the missing display?
It is in my journal and it talks about not being able to connect to dbus
or something -- I don't have it  in front of me right now.  I will take
the autostart out and see if that fixes things -- thanks a lot.



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