gnome-keyring chews CPU and disk for 40 seconds on chrome startup

[Dan Kegel]

To reproduce:
0) start top
1) start chrome
2) watch disk light flash; watch cpu activity for gnome-keyring peg; notice gnome-keyring in D state; notice chrome and whole machine responding poorly
3) 40 seconds later, system returns to normal, and chrome beings responding quickly as expected.

This is ironic and annoying, since I never use gnome's keyring. Ever.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: gnome-keyring 3.10.1-1ubuntu4.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-43.72-generic 3.13.11.11
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-43-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.6
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Wed Mar 25 19:52:44 2015
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-07-18 (251 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
SourcePackage: gnome-keyring
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Dan Kegel (dank)]

dank@i5:~$ ls -l ~/.local/share/keyrings/
insgesamt 564
-rw------- 1 dank dank 569425 Mar 25 19:51 login.keyring
-rw------- 1 dank dank 207 Jul 7 2013 user.keystore

See also
   https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/0nLjeCisf1A
and
  http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=98601#c35
and
  https://src.chromium.org/svn/trunk/src/chrome/browser/password_manager/native_backend_gnome_x_unittest.cc
  https://src.chromium.org/svn/trunk/src/chrome/browser/password_manager/native_backend_gnome_x.cc

Evidently chrome uses gnome-keyring, and beats the crap out of it while syncing password stores with the cloud.

[Dan Kegel (dank)]

On a slower Ubuntu 14.10 system (AMD e-450) with chrome 39.0.2171.95, it takes longer (90 seconds of cpu?) to finish. A few seconds after the churning stops, I see:

$ ps augxw | grep keyr
dank 2103 32.7 0.6 384248 25184 ? SLl 13:32 1:28 /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon --daemonize --login
dank 6019 0.0 0.0 13680 2104 pts/7 S+ 13:36 0:00 grep keyr

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

That's an old issue.

Dan, are you still seeing it with recent versions of chromium?

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

This issue has sat incomplete for more than two years now without any response and didn't expire due to a bug watch. This bug report only refers to Ubuntu releases that are now "End of life" so I'm going to close this as "Invalid".

Please feel free to re-open this bug report if this is still an issue using a currently supported release of Ubuntu.