secret-tool does not run on headless system

[Philip Kania]

Description: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Release: 14.04

libsecret-tools:
  Installed: 0.16-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.16-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.16-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

I expected to be able to run secret-tool on a headless sytem, but got this message after running it.

secret-tool store ...

(secret-tool:26626): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
secret-tool: Cannot autolaunch D-Bus without X11 $DISPLAY

# didn't expect thisto work, but thought I'd give it a try.
export DISPLAY=:0
secret-tool store ...

(secret-tool:26639): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
secret-tool: Error spawning command line 'dbus-launch --autolaunch=0feb8b37e7d1bdde6782aa3e537cfda6 --binary-syntax --close-stderr': Child process exited with code 1

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Thanks for taking your time to report this issue and help making Ubuntu better.

I got the same error message when attemting to run secret-tool on a headless system. I also tried with a newer version, but the issue is still present in libsecret-tools 0.18-1ubuntu2 on Ubuntu Vivid.

I tested with the following command:
$ secret-tool store --label="example" foo bar

I've taken the liberty of moving this bug report to the libsecret package, since I don't see how it is related to anacron.

[Quanah (quanah-zimbra)]

Still a problem in ubuntu14.04.3. Command line tools should not depend on X11.

secret-tool store --label="blahblah/org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.vpnc/vpn" setting-name vpn setting-key "Xauth password"

(secret-tool:6159): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
secret-tool: Cannot autolaunch D-Bus without X11 $DISPLAY

[Quanah (quanah-zimbra)]

It is trivial to fix this by adding the following to ~/.bashrc:

if test -z "$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS" ; then
  eval `dbus-launch --sh-syntax`
fi

[NetForHack (netforhack)]

Actual for xenial too

[flindeberg (flindeberg)]

Still present in 18.04.

Even after starting dbus I cannot get it to run.

$ secret-tool store --label="mylabel" attr1 val1
Password:
** Message: 22:54:42.562: Remote error from secret service: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: No such interface 'org.freedesktop.Secret.Collection' on object at path /org/freedesktop/secrets/collection/login
secret-tool: No such interface 'org.freedesktop.Secret.Collection' on object at path /org/freedesktop/secrets/collection/login

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

It's a wishlist/feature request and should be sent upstream ideally on https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libsecret/issues

[Tomi Bello (kyle2f)]

Hi I'm still having this issue on my ubuntu terminal

secret-tool: No such interface “org.freedesktop.Secret.Collection” on object at path /org/freedesktop/secrets/collection/login