gnome-keyring-daemon refuses to start

[Pete Goodall]

I have just done a fresh install of Ubuntu 11.10 from the daily live CD from 29th July 2011. After installation, I could not connect to any wireless network or even my mobile broadband connection. I restored my home directory to see if maybe it was just the lack of a keyring and that still didn't help. Checking the wireless connections I noticed that a) none of my previously saved networks were listed and b) the one I had been trying to connect to was listed, but had no password filled in. I filled in the password for the WPA2 network and connected just fine. I checked seahorse to see if the password was saved and was informed seahorse couldn't connect to gnome-keyring-daemon. When I try to start the gnome-keyring-daemon from the command line, here is what I get:

$ gnome-keyring-daemon
gnome-keyring-daemon: error getting process capabilities, aborting

I'm not sure how to debug this, so please let me know what other information I can give you.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gnome-keyring 3.1.1-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-7.8-generic 3.0.0
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-7-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Jul 29 13:21:10 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha amd64 (20110728)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-keyring
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Hey Pete, that seems similar to bug #813755, could you try if the workaround on
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-keyring/+bug/813755/comments/5
is working for you?

[Pete Goodall (pgoodall)]

Hi Seb,

Yes, the workaround (using setcap) seems to fix the issue.

[Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (kamstrup)]

The fix from comment 5 on #813755 works for me as well. Marking as a dupe