[Solved]Gnome keyring or dbus error? org.freedesktop.secrets timed out

Garage1832 · 2023-01-22 11:10:07

I'm trying to troubleshoot what I think is either a gnome-keyring or dbus problem but I don't know enough about either to make much progress.

I'm running Arch 6.1.7-arch-1-1, XFCE 4.18, GTK 3.24.36, and want to use ProtonVPN (official app or cli).

The ProtonVPN app times out with this error:
[org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Timeout] ("Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.secrets.: timed out (service_start_timeout=120000ms)",)

Gnome-keyring is a dependency for ProtonVPN and is installed (v. 1.42.1-2).

Reading other forum posts with similar service timeout errors, leads me to believe that the problem might be related to dbus rather than gnome-keyring itself.

Can anyone suggest some steps I can try to get to the bottom of this problem? I hope I have provided sufficient information.

Thanks.

Last edited by Garage1832 (2023-01-23 10:28:33)

seth · 2023-01-22 13:50:01

Post the outputs of

hostnamectl
loginctl session-status
echo $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS

(in code tags, https://bbs.archlinux.org/help.php#bbcode )

Garage1832 · 2023-01-22 16:30:08

hostnamectl

 Static hostname: X270
       Icon name: computer-laptop
         Chassis: laptop ?
      Machine ID: 45eabfd0cfc315998465d58763370fd2
         Boot ID: 2bf83c196c1341cfb1bd1dc7482d75e5
Operating System: Arch Linux                      
          Kernel: Linux 6.1.7-arch1-1
    Architecture: x86-64
 Hardware Vendor: Lenovo
  Hardware Model: ThinkPad X270
Firmware Version: R0IET62W (1.40 )

loginctl session-status

2 - Garage1832 (1000)
	   Since: Sun 2023-01-22 16:20:12 GMT; 3min 0s ago
	  Leader: 704 (lightdm)
	    Seat: seat0; vc7
	 Display: :0
	 Service: lightdm; type x11; class user
	 Desktop: xfce
	   State: active
	    Unit: session-2.scope
		  ├─ 704 lightdm --session-child 13 20
		  ├─ 727 xfce4-session
		  ├─ 732 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --syslog --fork --print-pid 4 --print-address 6 --session
		  ├─ 743 nm-applet
		  ├─ 749 /bin/sh /etc/lightdm/Xsession startxfce4
		  ├─ 759 pipewire
		  ├─ 770 /usr/lib/at-spi-bus-launcher
		  ├─ 777 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --config-file=/usr/share/defaults/at-spi2/accessibility.conf --nofork --print-address 11 --address=unix:path=/run/user/1000/at-spi/bus_0
		  ├─ 779 /usr/bin/pipewire -c pipewire-pulse.conf
		  ├─ 819 /usr/lib/at-spi2-registryd --use-gnome-session
		  ├─ 825 /usr/lib/xfce4/xfconf/xfconfd
		  ├─ 831 /usr/bin/xfce4-screensaver
		  ├─ 838 xfwm4
		  ├─ 851 xfsettingsd
		  ├─ 860 xfce4-panel
		  ├─ 869 Thunar --daemon
		  ├─ 874 xfdesktop
		  ├─ 875 /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/wrapper-2.0 /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/plugins/libwhiskermenu.so 7 20971527 whiskermenu "Whisker Menu" "Show a menu to easily access installed applications"
		  ├─ 886 /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/wrapper-2.0 /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/plugins/libsystray.so 6 20971529 systray "Status Tray Plugin" "Provides status notifier items (application indicators) and legacy systray items"
		  ├─ 889 /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/wrapper-2.0 /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/plugins/libpulseaudio-plugin.so 8 20971530 pulseaudio "PulseAudio Plugin" "Adjust the audio volume of the PulseAudio sound system"
		  ├─ 893 /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/wrapper-2.0 /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/plugins/libxfce4powermanager.so 9 20971531 power-manager-plugin "Power Manager Plugin" "Display the battery levels of your devices and control the brightness of your display"
		  ├─ 897 /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/wrapper-2.0 /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/plugins/libnotification-plugin.so 10 20971532 notification-plugin "Notification Plugin" "Notification plugin for the Xfce panel"
		  ├─ 900 pamac-tray
		  ├─ 904 /usr/bin/python3 /usr/share/system-config-printer/applet.py
		  ├─ 908 xfce4-power-manager
		  ├─ 909 /usr/lib/xfce4/notifyd/xfce4-notifyd
		  ├─ 910 /usr/lib/polkit-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1
		  ├─ 913 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/blueman-applet
		  ├─ 918 /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/wrapper-2.0 /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/plugins/libactions.so 14 20971533 actions "Action Buttons" "Log out, lock or other system actions"
		  ├─1026 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/blueman-tray
		  ├─1059 /usr/lib/librewolf/librewolf
		  ├─1127 /usr/lib/librewolf/librewolf -contentproc -parentBuildID 20230117183000 -prefsLen 22648 -prefMapSize 229406 -appDir /usr/lib/librewolf/browser {c8ec70ef-7dee-4e37-bac2-1d258b37e6a3} 1059 socket
		  ├─1151 /usr/lib/librewolf/librewolf -contentproc -childID 1 -isForBrowser -prefsLen 23569 -prefMapSize 229406 -jsInitLen 246772 -parentBuildID 20230117183000 -appDir /usr/lib/librewolf/browser {521976f6-64eb-4015-8ddd-0317bd9c2005} 1059 tab
		  ├─1200 /usr/lib/librewolf/librewolf -contentproc -childID 2 -isForBrowser -prefsLen 27306 -prefMapSize 229406 -jsInitLen 246772 -parentBuildID 20230117183000 -appDir /usr/lib/librewolf/browser {88da3a35-2585-4b84-bf1d-559d949956da} 1059 tab
		  ├─1272 /usr/lib/librewolf/librewolf -contentproc -childID 4 -isForBrowser -prefsLen 27306 -prefMapSize 229406 -jsInitLen 246772 -parentBuildID 20230117183000 -appDir /usr/lib/librewolf/browser {79919d69-e414-4f9f-97da-bc03d75ded61} 1059 tab
		  ├─1387 /usr/lib/librewolf/librewolf -contentproc -childID 7 -isForBrowser -prefsLen 27358 -prefMapSize 229406 -jsInitLen 246772 -parentBuildID 20230117183000 -appDir /usr/lib/librewolf/browser {85a76f16-8aad-42d1-9b54-d47369db5528} 1059 tab
		  ├─1419 /usr/lib/librewolf/librewolf -contentproc -childID 8 -isForBrowser -prefsLen 27358 -prefMapSize 229406 -jsInitLen 246772 -parentBuildID 20230117183000 -appDir /usr/lib/librewolf/browser {f797bf07-4659-4d85-bc08-2d7475122d72} 1059 tab
		  ├─1443 /usr/lib/librewolf/librewolf -contentproc -childID 9 -isForBrowser -prefsLen 27358 -prefMapSize 229406 -jsInitLen 246772 -parentBuildID 20230117183000 -appDir /usr/lib/librewolf/browser {4f429155-c3de-4f9b-af1a-f1bdf715af28} 1059 tab
		  ├─1469 /usr/bin/xfce4-terminal
		  ├─1482 bash
		  └─1506 loginctl session-status

Jan 22 16:20:13 X270 dbus-daemon[732]: [session uid=1000 pid=730] Successfully activated service 'org.xfce.Xfconf'
Jan 22 16:20:13 X270 dbus-daemon[732]: [session uid=1000 pid=730] Activating service name='org.xfce.ScreenSaver' requested by ':1.9' (uid=1000 pid=727 comm="xfce4-session")
Jan 22 16:20:13 X270 dbus-daemon[732]: [session uid=1000 pid=730] Successfully activated service 'org.xfce.ScreenSaver'
Jan 22 16:20:13 X270 gnome-keyring-daemon[837]: discover_other_daemon: 1
Jan 22 16:20:15 X270 pkexec[986]: pam_unix(polkit-1:session): session opened for user root(uid=0) by (uid=1000)
Jan 22 16:20:15 X270 pkexec[986]: Garage1832: Executing command [USER=root] [TTY=unknown] [CWD=/home/Garage1832] [COMMAND=/usr/bin/xfpm-power-backlight-helper --set-brightness-switch 0]
Jan 22 16:20:15 X270 pkexec[1006]: pam_unix(polkit-1:session): session opened for user root(uid=0) by (uid=1000)
Jan 22 16:20:15 X270 pkexec[1006]: Garage1832: Executing command [USER=root] [TTY=unknown] [CWD=/home/Garage1832] [COMMAND=/usr/bin/xfpm-power-backlight-helper --set-brightness-switch 0]
Jan 22 16:20:16 X270 dbus-daemon[732]: [session uid=1000 pid=730] Activating service name='org.bluez.obex' requested by ':1.33' (uid=1000 pid=913 comm="/usr/bin/python /usr/bin/blueman-applet")
Jan 22 16:20:16 X270 dbus-daemon[732]: [session uid=1000 pid=730] Activated service 'org.bluez.obex' failed: Process org.bluez.obex exited with status 1

echo $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS

unix:path=/tmp/dbus-H07qaFxdC2,guid=093c23e4761462f939d2317e63cd623c

seth · 2023-01-22 16:34:04

$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS looks off, like as if dbus-launch was used somewhere
ly (some login manager) causes this as well, but you're using lightdm

What's the output of

echo $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS

if you log into some console session (ctrl+alt+F2)?
(You can paste it using the tip in the 1st link below, but the relevant part is whether it looks "similar" in /tmp or like "unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus"

Garage1832 · 2023-01-22 16:52:13

Output of echo $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS from console:

unix:path=/tmp/dbus-Uzf9LI15G5,guid=ec1bc3efb3c36c872f377a5163cd67aa

seth · 2023-01-22 19:36:00

echo $SHELL
grep -id skip dbus ~/.*
grep -ri dbus /etc/profile*

Garage1832 · 2023-01-23 08:24:33

echo $SHELL

/bin/bash

grep -id skip dbus ~/.*

/home/Garage1832/.bash_history:echo $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS 
/home/Garage1832/.xsession-errors:discover_other_daemon: 1dbus-update-activation-environment: warning: error sending to systemd: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1
/home/Garage1832/.xsession-errors.old:discover_other_daemon: 1dbus-update-activation-environment: warning: error sending to systemd: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1
/home/Garage1832/.xsession-errors.old:  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/blueman/main/DBusProxies.py", line 52, in call_finish
/home/Garage1832/.xsession-errors.old:gi.repository.GLib.GError: g-dbus-error-quark: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.InvalidArgs: Unknown action ‘Activate’ (16)
/home/Garage1832/.xsession-errors.old:(wrapper-2.0:874): LIBDBUSMENU-GLIB-WARNING **: 18:43:59.591: Unable to replace properties on 0: Error getting properties for ID
/home/Garage1832/.xsession-errors.old:(wrapper-2.0:874): LIBDBUSMENU-GLIB-WARNING **: 18:44:02.202: Unable to replace properties on 0: Error getting properties for ID

grep -ri dbus /etc/profile*

/etc/profile.d/dbus.sh:export $(dbus-launch)

seth · 2023-01-23 08:29:25

/etc/profile.d/dbus.sh:export $(dbus-launch)

Why is that there?

Garage1832 · 2023-01-23 08:39:24

No idea. I did not put it there myself.

seth · 2023-01-23 08:40:29

pacmna -Qo /etc/profile.d/dbus.sh

Garage1832 · 2023-01-23 09:09:47

pacman -Qo /etc/profile.d/dbus.sh

error: No package owns /etc/profile.d/dbus.sh

seth · 2023-01-23 09:13:47

I did not put it there myself.

Neither did pacman. Maybe some Poltergeist.

cat /etc/profile.d/dbus.sh

and then remove it.

Garage1832 · 2023-01-23 09:19:20

cat /etc/profile.d/dbus.sh

export $(dbus-launch)

/etc/profile.d/dbus.sh is now removed.

seth · 2023-01-23 09:34:29

Good. Reboot to completely get rid of the impact and see what happens.

Garage1832 · 2023-01-23 09:50:34

Rebooted. ProtonVPN app starts as expected. It's working!

Just to clarify my understanding of what was happening: I was starting a second dbus session because of the dbus.sh script in /etc/profile.d. This caused the VPN app to time out because it could not get a response from dbus, or some other kind of incorrect interaction.

It's safe to say that I would never have worked this out on my own. Thank you so much for your patient help, and your clear and methodical instructions.

seth · 2023-01-23 13:05:36

You're esp. creating multiple session busses and the different clients now exist in separate contexts and can't talk to each other.
Running dbus-launch in a systemd environment isn't necessary and usually "wrong".
Running it unconditionally from /etc/profile is just begging for trouble - it should at least have tested whether $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS is alreaddy set.

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[Solved]Gnome keyring or dbus error? org.freedesktop.secrets timed out

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