Noticed that gnome-keyring tools are broken tracked it down to gnome-keyring-daemon failing to communicate with dbus Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: >>> Installing (1 of 1) gnome-base/gnome-keyring-2.30.3 * Updating desktop mime database ... * Updating shared mime info database ... * Installing GNOME 2 GConf schemas * Reloading GConf schemas ... [ ok ] * Updating desktop mime database ... * Updating shared mime info database ... >>> Recording gnome-base/gnome-keyring in "world" favorites file... >>> Auto-cleaning packages... >>> No outdated packages were found on your system. * GNU info directory index is up-to-date. vasko /home/sdr # /ctrl/dbus restart * Stopping D-BUS system messagebus ... [ ok ] * Starting D-BUS system messagebus ... [ ok ] vasko /home/sdr # gnome-keyring-daemon -f GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=/tmp/keyring-tW5lvX SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/keyring-tW5lvX/ssh GNOME_KEYRING_PID=1968 ** Message: couldn't connect to dbus session bus: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken. ** (gnome-keyring-daemon:1968): CRITICAL **: gkd_dbus_secrets_startup: assertion `dbus_conn' failed ^C vasko /home/sdr # equery list dbus * Searching for dbus ... [IP-] [ ] sys-apps/dbus-1.2.24:0 vasko /home/sdr # emerge --info Portage 2.1.8.3 (default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.4.4, glibc-2.11.2-r0, 2.6.34-gentoo i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.34-gentoo-i686-Pentium-R-_Dual-Core_CPU_E5300_@_2.60GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Fri, 09 Jul 2010 07:00:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.1_p7 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.11 dev-lang/python: 2.6.5-r2, 3.1.2-r3 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.1-r2 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.6.1-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.65-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.4-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.10 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.34 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=i686 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/splash /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=i686 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="en en_GB bg" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/root/myoverlay" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa apache2 berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dri dts dvd dvdr emboss encode exif fam firefox flac fortran gdbm gif gmp gpm hal iconv jpeg kde lcms libnotify mad mikmod mmx mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl pam pango pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt qt3support qt4 readline reflection sdl session slang spell spl sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd tiff truetype unicode usb vorbis x264 x86 xcb xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif so status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en en_GB bg" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
This is the first report with this problem I see, also seems that nobody else suffers it searching at google :-( Do you have a fully updated system? Does it work on a new created user account? Have you tried after rebooting? Have you run dispatch-conf?
Are other tools able to connect to dbus daemon? Do you see any error message on /var/log/messages related with dbus?
This was my misunderstanding about how gnome-keyring-daemon should work. If you start it as the user currently loged in the X session it's all good. I was under the impression that the deamon is systemwide but it is not
