svn is slow when gnome-keyring-daemon is not running

[Edward Schwartz]

Binary package hint: subversion

I run the ion3 window manager, so I normally do not run gnome-keyring-daemon. svn seems to be configured to use a gnome-keyring authentication mechanism by default, which has an excessively long timeout:

ed@a2lkjxk3:~/s10/traces$ time svn up
At revision 4417.

real 3m23.119s
user 0m2.080s
sys 0m0.088s

After running gnome-keyring-daemon, svn operates at normal speeds:

ed@a2lkjxk3:~/s10/traces$ eval `gnome-keyring-daemon`
ed@a2lkjxk3:~/s10/traces$ time svn up
Password for '(null)' GNOME keyring:
At revision 4417.

real 0m3.674s
user 0m1.484s
sys 0m0.076s

svn should default to a non-gnome-keyring solution when gnome-keyring is not available, and without a long timeout.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: subversion 1.6.12dfsg-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-23.41-generic 2.6.35.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-23-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Dec 6 15:18:49 2010
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: subversion

[zenzike (zenzike)]

I can confirm this problem when using the xmonad windows manager too, which doesn't use gnome-keyring-daemon. Enabling the daemon is a good temporary workaround.