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gnome-keyring-daemon is running, but SSH_AUTH_SOCK is not set in the session environment

Bug #402161 reported by Matt Zimmerman
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gdm (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Martin Pitt

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-keyring

After starting a new session recently (due to bug 343528), I noticed that my ssh sessions were no longer making use of the GNOME keyring. This seems to be because SSH_AUTH_SOCK is no longer set in the environment of programs running in the session.

It is printed in ~/.xsession-errors:

perseus:[~] grep SSH .xsession-errors
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/keyring-uZ6Zb2/socket.ssh

and setting it in a shell works (ssh then talks to gnome-keyring-daemon as expected).

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Jul 21 11:40:41 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: gnome-keyring 2.27.4-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LC_COLLATE=C
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/zsh
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-3.19-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-keyring
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-3-generic x86_64

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote :
tags: added: regression-potential
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

how do you start your command line? gnome-session doesn't have the SSH environment there but gnome-panel has it for example

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote : Re: [Bug 402161] Re: gnome-keyring-daemon is running, but SSH_AUTH_SOCK is not set in the session environment

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:15:21AM -0000, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> how do you start your command line? gnome-session doesn't have the SSH
> environment there but gnome-panel has it for example

Not here:

perseus:[/var/crash] grep SSH /proc/`pidof gnome-panel`/environ
zsh: exit 1 grep SSH /proc/`pidof gnome-panel`/environ

In fact, it's not in any process in my session that I can see:

perseus:[/var/crash] grep -s SSH /proc/*/environ
zsh: exit 2 grep -s SSH /proc/*/environ

In my tests, I usually start ssh from a shell inside gnome-terminal.

--
 - mdz

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

I tracked this down to a regression in /etc/gdm/Xsession

affects: gnome-keyring (Ubuntu) → gdm (Ubuntu)
Changed in gdm (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Martin Pitt (pitti)
importance: Undecided → High
status: New → In Progress
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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

r60

Changed in gdm (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package gdm - 2.27.4-0ubuntu3

---------------
gdm (2.27.4-0ubuntu3) karmic; urgency=low

  * 06_run_xsession.d.patch: Define $OPTIONFILE, so that the
    75dbus_dbus-launch Xsession.d script properly runs the session under
    dbus-launch. (LP: #402161)

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:31:02 +0200

Changed in gdm (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote :

Well done. Thanks, Martin.

--
 - mdz

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