gnome-keyring-daemon uses a lot of memory
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Linux Mint |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
gnome-keyring (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
1) The version and edition of Linux Mint and version of gnome-keyring:
$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_
DISTRIB_
DISTRIB_
DISTRIB_
$ cinnamon --version
Cinnamon 2.4.7
$ dpkg -l gnome-keyring
Desired=
| Status=
|/ Err?=(none)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-===
ii gnome-keyring 3.10.1-1ubun amd64 GNOME keyring services (daemon an
2) How to reproduce it.
Start one or more gnome-terminal sessions connected to remote server by ssh and leave them open for at least half an hour or more, e.g. snippet from pstree:
|-gnome-
| |-bash(4195)
| |-bash(
| |-bash(16908)
| |-bash(18025)
| |-bash(19604)
| |-bash(
| |-bash(23307)
| |-bash(
| | `-pstree(24018)
3) The result in an hour or more is gnome-kerying-
$ ps -p 32051 -o pcpu,pmem,pid,comm
%CPU %MEM PID COMMAND
1.1 15.8 32051 gnome-keyring-d
$ cat /proc/32051/cmdline
/usr/bin/
If freshly started it is using not more than 1MB or less.
4) The expected is to leave the session for days at a time without any need for gnome-keyring-
5) The problem is reproducible always, just have to leave some terminals open for some time.
Some remarks:
- Tried to reproduce similar behaviour with Ubuntu 14.04 and 14.10 without success.
- The same issue was reproducible also in Linux Mint 17 Qiana. In fact the host was upgraded from Quiana to Rebecca some months ago.
- Logging out and log-in back resolves the issue as the keyring daemon is restarted.
- Attempting to restart just the process results in:
/usr/bin/
** Message: couldn't communicate with already running daemon: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.
** Message: Replacing daemon, using directory: /run/user/
GNOME_KEYRING_
SSH_AUTH_
GPG_AGENT_
GNOME_KEYRING_
Password unlock prompt opens for every gnome-terminal window or session opened.
This issue also affects me on Ubuntu 14.04.
It seems to be linked to chromium browser's data sync.