Comment 31 for bug 218434

@Ovation1357 - I think you are correct that the USB/flash drive is a correlation, however I don't think it is an absolute dependence, because I was using a fresh Ubuntu install on a totally normal HP desktop machine hard disk with no USB/flash in sight. The only factor I can think of is perhaps the hardware RAID controller.

In terms of backtraces etc, I had a similar problem in that I had no obvious way to run it through any of the usual tools, because it is automatically started by the X session management code (without checking if a suitable instance is already running). You can start an instance yourself and then restart gdm (etc) but a new keyring instance is automatically started (and crashes) and the one you started is completely ignored and doesn't crash.

I guess apport is one option. The other options would be to hack and recompile the x-session-manager (or whatever is executing keyring) or else to figure out a functional wrapper script or alias of some kind.

Thanks all for the workarounds, they are certainly easier than recompiling from SVN ;)