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msharov

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[solved] chromium gnome-keyring integration seems broken with 116

After upgrade to chromium 116, it appears to no longer get the master password from gnome-keyring. The password manager shows that all my saved passwords are now gone. gnome-keyring starts up and unlocks properly, and the chromium entries are present and accessible. Downgrading chromium back to 115 restores access to my saved passwords.

So, did 116 remove the ability to store the master password in gnome-keyring?
Or do I need to perform some manual arcane incantations for this upgrade?

Last edited by msharov (2023-08-17 13:43:22)

cloverskull

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Re: [solved] chromium gnome-keyring integration seems broken with 116

Probably relevant - https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comm … pport_use/

As of 116.0.5845.96, gnome-keyring support has been removed upstream. If you have been using chromium with the

--password-store=gnome

flag outside of the GNOME desktop, change it to

--password-store=gnome-libsecret

instead, otherwise your cookies and login sessions may become invalid.

This may apply to electron applications (such as vscode) in the future.

- components/os_crypt/sync/key_storage_linux.cc
- components/os_crypt/sync/key_storage_util_linux.cc

msharov

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Re: [solved] chromium gnome-keyring integration seems broken with 116

Unfortunately, that was insufficient. Changing to --password-store=gnome-libsecret still does not get chromium 116 to load any passwords. No errors appear in syslog or on stdout. Do you have any suggestions on how to troubleshoot this problem?

msharov

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Re: [solved] chromium gnome-keyring integration seems broken with 116

Ok, never mind. I had multiple places where the flag was set.
--password-store=gnome-libsecret is sufficient to fix the problem.