No password request dialog shown after upgrade of libgcr in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

[TaNgO]

My first symptom appeard when Evolution started to ask for my GAL password every time I opened it. I tought it was IT staff messing with exchange.
Then, evolution started to crash after being opened.
I found this report https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=953641 that gave me the clue to look around gcr.
I tried to view my stored passords in Seahorse and I was unable to do that. This fact let me discard evolution/exchange problems.
I focused on libgcr.

$ sudo aptitude remove --purge libgcr-3-1 and libgcr-3-common
The first option was to uninstall a lot of packages. I answered no until the proposed action was downgrade the packages.

libgcr-3-1 and libgcr-3-common were downgraded from version 3.2.2-2ubuntu4.1 to 3.2.2-2ubuntu4

As sugested in the bug report, I killed gnome-keyring.

After this, Seahorse shown my stored passwords and Evolution worked just as expected.

[Quinn Balazs (qbalazs)]

So, the fact that this is an issue here isn't that surprising. Redhat has a fix for gcr that supposedly solved this: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/gcr-3.6.2-4.fc18. I'd suggest that we integrate this or at least push out something to the same effect as gcr-3.6.2-4, and since this issue basically mirrors the issue reported in fedora, I feel safe marking this as confirmed.

~Quinn Balazs

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

In precise libgcr-3-1 was provided by the gnome-keyring source package.