Ah, so it boils down to the password-less login case, see bug 525642. Fingerprints can't be used to unlock keyrings because no external data is provided: the system has to know your fingerprint to check it's the same. So gnome-keyring-daemon must be hanging waiting for a password that is not provided.
Andreas: I had no thought about this possibility: are you using fingerprints too? -- gnome-keyring-daemon fails to start https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/573387 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-keyring in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs