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DigiAngel

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Registered: 2025-07-04

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[WORKROUND]Unable to create keyring with seahorse

I installed arch off USB with: archinstall.  After updating with:

sudo pacman -Syu

I installed gnome and gnome-extras using pacman.

I am manually starting Wayland with:

XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland dbus-run-session gnome-session

I have added the required pam_gnome_keyring lines to /etc/pam.d/login per https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GNOME/Keyring

/home/<me>/.local/share/keyrings is 0700 permissions, and empty

ps aux shows gnome-keyring-deamon running with pkcs11,secrets components (and runs at console login).

seahorse shows only Keys (GnuPG keys and OpenSSH keys), Certificats (Default Trust).  Clicking the + I can only add:
Secure Shell key
GPG key
Private key
Import from file

Are there any other steps I'm missing to get this working?  Thank you.

Last edited by DigiAngel (2025-07-05 12:51:24)

DigiAngel

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Registered: 2025-07-04

Posts: 2

Re: [WORKROUND]Unable to create keyring with seahorse

Well...it appears that enabling gdm service, which, honestly I was probably going to do anyway makes the keyring work.  Shouldn't have to, but there it is.  Going to mark this as workaround.

seth

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Re: [WORKROUND]Unable to create keyring with seahorse

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 5#p2110485

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