Bug 418731 - "couldn't read 4 bytes from client" in /var/log/messages
Summary: "couldn't read 4 bytes from client" in /var/log/messages
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 354041
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gnome-keyring
Version: 9
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Tomáš Bžatek
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/s...
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Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-12-10 20:22 UTC by Christoph Wickert
Modified: 2023-09-14 01:11 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2009-07-14 16:33:58 UTC
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GNOME Bugzilla 511285 0 None None None 2018-12-20 09:36:30 UTC

Description Christoph Wickert 2007-12-10 20:22:50 UTC
Description of problem:
After upgrading to F8 gnome-keyring daemon blows up /var/log/messages with the
error message: "couldn't read 4 bytes from client:"

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gnome-keyring-2.20.2-1.fc8

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. upgrade to F8 from FC6 or F7
2. configure an email account in evolution if you haven't already
3. sudo tail -f /var/log/messages
  
Actual results:
gnome-keyring-manager is spamming /var/log/messages
Dec 10 19:11:11 wicktop gnome-keyring-daemon[2954]: couldn't read 4 bytes from
client: 
Dec 10 19:11:11 wicktop gnome-keyring-daemon[2954]: couldn't read 4 bytes from
client: 
Dec 10 19:12:04 wicktop ntpd[2225]: synchronized to 141.40.103.103, stratum 2
Dec 10 19:16:11 wicktop gnome-keyring-daemon[2954]: couldn't read 4 bytes from
client: 
Dec 10 19:21:11 wicktop gnome-keyring-daemon[2954]: couldn't read 4 bytes from
client: 
Dec 10 19:26:11 wicktop gnome-keyring-daemon[2954]:last message repeated 2 times
Dec 10 19:31:11 wicktop gnome-keyring-daemon[2954]: couldn't read 4 bytes from
client: 
Dec 10 19:36:11 wicktop gnome-keyring-daemon[2954]:last message repeated 2 times
Dec 10 19:41:11 wicktop gnome-keyring-daemon[2954]: couldn't read 4 bytes from
client: 
Dec 10 19:46:11 wicktop gnome-keyring-daemon[2954]:last message repeated 2 times
Dec 10 19:51:11 wicktop gnome-keyring-daemon[2954]: couldn't read 4 bytes from
client: 
Dec 10 19:56:11 wicktop gnome-keyring-daemon[2954]:last message repeated 2 times
Dec 10 20:01:11 wicktop gnome-keyring-daemon[2954]: couldn't read 4 bytes from
client: 
Dec 10 20:06:11 wicktop gnome-keyring-daemon[2954]:last message repeated 2 times
Dec 10 20:11:11 wicktop gnome-keyring-daemon[2954]: couldn't read 4 bytes from
client: 
Dec 10 20:16:11 wicktop gnome-keyring-daemon[2954]:last message repeated 2 times
Dec 10 20:21:11 wicktop gnome-keyring-daemon[2954]: couldn't read 4 bytes from
client: 
Dec 10 20:26:11 wicktop gnome-keyring-daemon[2954]:last message repeated 2 times
Dec 10 20:31:11 wicktop gnome-keyring-daemon[2954]: couldn't read 4 bytes from
client: 
Dec 10 20:36:11 wicktop gnome-keyring-daemon[2954]:last message repeated 2 times
Dec 10 20:41:11 wicktop gnome-keyring-daemon[2954]: couldn't read 4 bytes from
client: 
Dec 10 20:46:11 wicktop gnome-keyring-daemon[2954]:last message repeated 2 times
Dec 10 20:51:11 wicktop gnome-keyring-daemon[2954]: couldn't read 4 bytes from
client: 
...
and so on

Additional info:
The error is caused by evolution, because the 5 minute interval is when evo is
checking mail. Also appears as soon as I manually send/receive mail in evo and
has been confirmed by other users, see
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?p=914467 and
http://www.fedoraforum.de/viewtopic.php?t=13703
- All these users updated to F8 and kept their homedir.
- Doesn't seem to be related to SELinux because it is in permissive mode here.
- Removing my keyrings and let gnome-keyring create new ones didn't help ether.

Comment 1 Mikkel Lauritsen 2008-02-18 13:28:09 UTC
This is apparently a duplicate of bug 354041

Comment 2 Christoph Wickert 2008-02-18 14:56:45 UTC
Not sure, because I don't see high CPU usage here at all. Also deleting and
recreating the key rings did not solve the problem.

Comment 3 Chris Hubick 2008-04-21 23:58:33 UTC
I see this as well.  Fully updated F8, Evolution user.

Comment 4 Christoph Wickert 2008-06-13 19:40:58 UTC
Ping.

I still see this on F9, fresh install but $HOME kept. Obviously it's not only
limited to evolution, the message also appears when evo is not started and
network-manager is the only client using the keyring daemon.

Comment 5 Jon Burgess 2008-07-02 22:15:59 UTC
This should be fixed by the patch applied for the upstream bug
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=511285


Comment 6 Patrick O'Callaghan 2008-10-17 14:15:57 UTC
I'm getting this same behaviour in F9 using gnome-keyring-2.22.3-1.fc9.x86_64 and gnome-keyring-pam-2.22.3-1.fc9.x86_64. I use Evolution 2.22.3.1 under KDE 4.1.2 and the log messages appear in spurts every 10 minutes.

I tried removing ~/.gnome2/keyrings/login.keyring and restarting the session, but to no avail (the keyring file was recreated though).

Comment 7 Christoph Wickert 2009-01-11 17:39:52 UTC
Tomáš, any plans to fix this or just wait for the bugzappers to close it?

Comment 8 Patrick O'Callaghan 2009-01-12 13:47:04 UTC
I haven't been checking this, but I took a look just now and apparently it's no longer happening. I'm now on F10 (fully updated), with gnome-keyring-2.24.1-1.fc10.x86_64 and gnome-keyring-pam-2.24.1-1.fc10.x86_64. There is one message in the logs saying:

/var/log/messages:Jan 11 22:32:26 bree gnome-keyring-daemon[3356]: couldn't write 146 bytes to client: Broken pipe

but that may be something else.

Comment 9 Christoph Wickert 2009-03-29 15:19:48 UTC
Ping!

Comment 10 Christoph Wickert 2009-05-29 21:52:37 UTC
Another ping, or just wait for the bug-zappers to close this?

Comment 11 Patrick O'Callaghan 2009-05-29 23:43:28 UTC
I'm now on F11-pre and it's still not happening: gnome-keyring-2.26.1-1.fc11.x86_64.

Comment 12 Christoph Wickert 2009-05-30 00:47:57 UTC
I can confirm that it no longer happens on F-10 and F-11, nevertheless I think this should be fixed, especially since the fix was already mentioned in comment #5.

Comment 13 Bug Zapper 2009-06-09 23:16:56 UTC
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Approximately 30 (thirty) days from now Fedora will stop maintaining
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Comment 14 Bug Zapper 2009-07-14 16:33:58 UTC
Fedora 9 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-07-10. Fedora 9 is 
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further 
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of 
Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version.

Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.

Comment 15 Christoph Wickert 2009-07-14 17:39:45 UTC
A sad day for Fedora. Obviously maintainers don't care about their bugs and don't even bother to write a single comment into a bug report - not even if the solution is already mentioned in the report and if the bug is flagged NEEDINFO.

For better tracking I now close this bug duplicate of bug 354041.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 354041 ***

Comment 16 Red Hat Bugzilla 2023-09-14 01:11:44 UTC
The needinfo request[s] on this closed bug have been removed as they have been unresolved for 1000 days


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