Bug 438773 - couldn't allocate secure memory to keep passwords and or keys from being written to the disk
Summary: couldn't allocate secure memory to keep passwords and or keys from being writ...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
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
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-03-25 01:10 UTC by Matěj Cepl
Modified: 2018-04-11 16:40 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2009-07-14 16:34:33 UTC
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output of grep gnome-keyring /var/log/messages (6.21 KB, text/plain)
2008-03-25 01:10 UTC, Matěj Cepl
no flags Details

Description Matěj Cepl 2008-03-25 01:10:14 UTC
Description of problem:
I am getting problems to login to the wireless network. NetworkManager
repeatedly asks for the wi-fi network credentials and the only way out of the
problem seems to be quite often reboot (at least I haven't found a better way).

I found in /var/log/messages messages like this (and others -- see attachment):

Mar 24 11:53:53 viklef gnome-keyring-daemon[24752]: couldn't allocate secure
memory to keep passwords and or keys from being written to the disk

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gnome-keyring-2.20.3-1.fc8
NetworkManager-0.7.0-0.6.7.svn3370.fc8

How reproducible:
more often than I would like to (50% of all logins to wifi network?)

Steps to Reproduce:
1.see above
2.
3.
  
Actual results:
cannot login

Expected results:
it should just work

Comment 1 Matěj Cepl 2008-03-25 01:10:14 UTC
Created attachment 298961 [details]
output of grep gnome-keyring /var/log/messages

Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2008-05-14 06:49:13 UTC
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA.
More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2009-06-09 23:50:39 UTC
This message is a reminder that Fedora 9 is nearing its end of life.
Approximately 30 (thirty) days from now Fedora will stop maintaining
and issuing updates for Fedora 9.  It is Fedora's policy to close all
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Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2009-07-14 16:34:33 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 5 Giandomenico De Tullio 2010-05-13 07:23:27 UTC
From /var/log/messages:
May 13 09:12:09 <hostname> gnome-keyring-daemon[1940]: couldn't allocate secure memory to keep passwords and or keys from being written to the disk


[root@<hostname> ~]# rpm -qif /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon
Name        : gnome-keyring                Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 2.30.1                            Vendor: Fedora Project
Release     : 2.fc13                        Build Date: lun 03 mag 2010 17:33:48 CEST
Install Date: mar 04 mag 2010 18:25:35 CEST      Build Host: x86-03.phx2.fedoraproject.org
Group       : System Environment/Libraries   Source RPM: gnome-keyring-2.30.1-2.fc13.src.rpm
Size        : 5026959                          License: GPLv2+ and LGPLv2+
Signature   : RSA/8, lun 03 mag 2010 18:14:26 CEST, Key ID 7edc6ad6e8e40fde
Packager    : Fedora Project
URL         : http://www.gnome.org
Summary     : Framework for managing passwords and other secrets
Description :
The gnome-keyring session daemon manages passwords and other types of
secrets for the user, storing them encrypted with a main password.
Applications can use the gnome-keyring library to integrate with the keyring.


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