Re: Big problems with keyring and Seahorse

["Karl F. Larsen" <klarsen1 gmail com>]

Adam Schreiber wrote:
> On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 gmail com> wrote:
>   
> > Adam Schreiber wrote:
> >   Hi Adam another user told me about /home/karl/.gnome2/keyrings and when I
> > delete keyrings it caused my broken 8.10 Ubuntu to then ask for new
> > passwords. Now it is working again and I have a method to fix the 8.10 and
> > Jaunty WiFi by deleting the keyring directory.
> >     
>
> Because the login keyring will bre recreated.
>
>   
> > This is fine and now both 8.10 and 9.04 Ubuntu are broken but working again.
> > I deleted seahorse from 9.04.
> >
> >   I want to delete all of keyring and seahorse so my NetworkManager will
> > work properly. I think both software packages are incomplete and buggy. They
> > cause me and all users of Ubuntu a lot of trouble. I believe today close to
> > 100% of the reported WiFi problems are really keyring problems. I think I
> > can prove this.
> >     
>
> Network manager will definitely not work properly without
> gnome-keyring and encrypted wireless networks.  You will have to enter
> the encryption key every time you connect.
>   
   This is true but only because NetworkManager is written to store the 
encrypted wireless password in the keyring!


> I don't know what to tell you about the inherent brokeness you claim.
> I'm running everything fine without problem in Jaunty
   What is without a problem? Do you need to give your password to the 
keyring EVERY time you bring up WiFi? This is silly on any computer 
since the password never leaves my computer and can't protect me from a 
thing.

   As I recall when I first turned on Jaunty it asked for the WiFi 
password and then asked me to make a password for the keyring and I used 
my first name karl as the password. This worked for about a week and 
then it came up with a new demand for my main Ubuntu password. This is 
where I am now.

   Where I work we use Red Hat and there is no keyring there.

Karl




>  and was in Ibex
> too before upgrading.  I also develop in Ubuntu.  If you discover
> genuine bugs, they should be filed in launchpad to go upstream or in
> GNOME's bugzilla.
   I do have a bug filed with many others against keyring and seahorse 
due to problems with WiFi. That was how I was lead to learn so many 
others are having similar problems.


>   Complaining in forums doesn't get anything fixed.
>   


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