deja-dup repeatedly asks for password in KDE

Bug #1720337 reported by Victor Marin
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Bug Description

I have kubuntu 16.04 LTS as a clean install in my laptop.

When deja-dup is set to backup automatically and to encrypt files, every time it starts to backup, it asks for the encryption password. This happens to me only in KDE, as before I had installed ubuntu MATE and deja-dup didn't ask for the password more than once, the first time it runs the backup, as normal.

In kubuntu, once I put the encryption password as deja-dup always asks for, the backup runs OK.

I have searched in Google for similar problems, like in: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=123644 and I found that kubuntu does not install gnome-keyring when deja-dup is installed.

As deja-dup is developed for GNOME desktop environment it seems that it needs this package for functioning properly (for saving the passwords).

Once I installed gnome-keyring and its dependencies as requested by the package manager (I like to use Synaptic even in Kubuntu), the problem has gone and deja-dup backups just nicely now. Not more asking for password every time.

So, summarizing:

1) What I expect to happen: that deja-dup doesn't ask for the backup password every time that it runs a backup in kubuntu.

2) What it happens instead: deja-dup asks for it every time because it needs, also in kubuntu, the package gnome-keyring installed along with its dependencies.

3) Hence, I request that kubuntu installs automatically gnome-keyring when deja-dup is marked to be installed or it won't work properly, as quoted.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: deja-dup 34.2-0ubuntu1.1
Uname: Linux 4.13.4-041304-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.10
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Fri Sep 29 12:01:56 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-07-30 (60 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 16.04.2 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20170215)
SourcePackage: deja-dup
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Victor Marin (vic64) wrote :
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Vej (vej) wrote :

Hello Victor,

thanks for your bug report.

Can you please provide us with the file /tmp/deja-dup.gsettings after running the following line (you may want to scrub the file of any incriminating file names or details):
    gsettings list-recursively org.gnome.DejaDup > /tmp/deja-dup.gsettings

I want to verify that this is not a problem in your configuration of Déjà Dup.

Thanking you in anticipation

Vej

Changed in deja-dup (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Victor Marin (vic64) wrote :

Hello Vej,

Thanks for your response. I just went to know it. I thought that new messages for the bug would be sent to me but it seems it doesn't. I should revise my configuration of notifications.

Here I attach you the requested file. I changed the user name and folders names.

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Michael Terry (mterry) wrote :

I've uploaded a fix for this in bionic (to Recommend gnome-keyring so it's installed by default).

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package deja-dup - 37.0-0ubuntu2

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deja-dup (37.0-0ubuntu2) bionic; urgency=medium

  * debian/control:
    - Recommend gnome-keyring (LP: #1720337)

 -- Michael Terry <email address hidden> Sat, 25 Nov 2017 17:19:51 -0500

Changed in deja-dup (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Fix Released
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