Re: [Evolution] Proposal regarding apparent race condition on Evolution start-up

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Tue, 2020-02-11 at 15:50 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > that would probably work, if evolution (and especially evolution-
> > source-registry) talks to the gnome-keyring-daemon directly. It's not
> > the case, evolution(-data-server) uses libsecret and what libsecret
> > does in the background is up to it. The libsecret used to have issues
> > to work properly when the process it was connected to (through D-Bus)
> > stopped while it had been "using" it - it didn't try to re-connect or
> > something. I do not know whether it's still the case these days.
>
> Am I right in thinking that libsecret doesn't specifically use gnome-
> keyring?  Is it possible that that under KDE it is trying to use
> ksecretservice because that happens to have already been started by
> KDE?
>
> > I do not know how to do that, but would you be able to check whether
> > the gnome-keyring-daemon was really restarted? Finding the reason for
> > its restart might be even harder. 
> Can you have two "Secret Services" connected to D-BUS? If
> ksecretservice starts up, will it disconnect gnome-keyring from D-BUS?

ksecretservice is definitely not running. In fact I don't think it's
even installed on my system. However kwalletd, which is the standard
KDE daemon, is running as well as gnome-keyring. If that's the source
of the trouble I don't see why killing Evo and restarting it would make
a difference.

poc