gnome-keyring resets password

Bug #1220550 reported by Martin Vysny
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This bug affects 2 people
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gnome-keyring (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
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seahorse (Ubuntu)
New
Undecided
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Bug Description

Good day :)
I have Ubuntu installed on an encrypted LVM partition, with user auto-login and an empty gnome-keyring password (I believe that an empty gnome-keyring password on an encrypted LVM is safe... is it? :). Every 5th or 6th boot (I don't know exact number) the gnome-keyring dialog pops out and asks me for a password. It no longer accepts empty password. I tried to set the password to some non-empty string ("a" or something like that), it again worked for several boots, then again started to ask for the password. I have to enter the user's password for the dialog to disappear. So it seems to me that something is (randomly?) resetting the gnome-keyring password to match the login password.
Thanks and have a nice day!

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: gnome-keyring 3.6.3-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-29.42-generic 3.8.13.5
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-29-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.3
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Sep 4 09:02:11 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-08-03 (31 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release i386 (20130423.1)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: gnome-keyring
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Martin Vysny (vyzivus) wrote :
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in gnome-keyring (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Hedwig Smythe (barking63) wrote :

I have this exact problem in Ubuntu 20.04.1 on x86_64. Nothing to add to the description above. This captures it perfectly.

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Hedwig Smythe (barking63) wrote :

This appears to be an upstream bug (a very old one). Reported on Seahorse Gitlab here: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/seahorse/-/issues/320

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Hedwig Smythe (barking63) wrote :

Also, this appears to be a duplicate of this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/seahorse/+bug/1086385

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