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secret service operation failed Activation of org.freedesktop.secrets timed out

May 4th, 2010

Something I updated today or recently caused nm-applet to no longer work. It was disappearing from my panel, but was apparently trying to run. I was getting syslogs like this:

May  3 23:54:28 wrk-240-gr kernel: [  840.493921] wlan0: authenticated
May  3 23:54:28 wrk-240-gr kernel: [  840.493928] wlan0: associate with AP 00:1d:73:18:12:fc
May  3 23:54:28 wrk-240-gr kernel: [  840.496123] wlan0: RX ReassocResp from 00:1d:73:18:12:fc (capab=0x401 status=0 aid=2)
May  3 23:54:28 wrk-240-gr kernel: [  840.496130] wlan0: associated
May  3 23:54:28 wrk-240-gr kernel: [  840.497211] wlan0: disassociating by local choice (reason=3)
May  3 23:54:28 wrk-240-gr wpa_supplicant[2066]: No network configuration found for the current AP

First it hung when awesomewm's rc.lua tried to launch it via:

os.execute("nm-applet &")

So I killed that process and tried starting it manually... major hangs! First I was getting this:

** (process:3564): WARNING **: error: failed to read connections from org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerUserSettings:
    The name org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerUserSettings was not provided by any .service files

Then I figured out that nm-applet now uses consolekit (or policykit?) to authenticate. I had previously held back consolekit from upgrading so I manually upgraded it, as well as network-manager-gnome.

This seemed to take me a little further, as when I'd try manually launching nm-applet, it would eventually respond with this notice:

secret service operation failed: Activation of org.freedesktop.secrets timed out

OK, well, I found this file /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.secrets.service:

[D-BUS Service]
Name=org.freedesktop.secrets
Exec=/usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon --start --foreground --components=secrets

So I took a shot in the dark and started gnome-keyring-daemon manually, and then when I tried nm-applet, it prompted me for a password. Sweet!

What next? I decided to start gnome-keyring-daemon via awesome's rc.lua:

#ck-launch-session
#gnome-settings-daemon &
gnome-keyring-daemon &
#gnome-power-manager &
set -a
. /etc/environment
wmname LG3D
xsetroot -cursor_name dmz
exec awesome

After that, at least when I logged in, it would prompt me to unlock the default keychain. Thankfully, when I expanded the details section, I was able to click a box that allowed me to always unlock that keychain upon login.

Notes:

  • I use Debian
  • I run AwesomeWM, launched via xdm
  • I use hal
  • I'm in the netdev group

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