I'm not sure I'm reading this bug system's UI properly, but it looks like this is still open ("New" not "Invalid") as regards the "GNOME keyring" subsystem, and that's where the upstream bug is being tracked. This bug is closed ("Invalid") with respect to the subsystem "gnome- keyring (ubuntu)" but it's been in that state since April and people have continued to comment on it - most especially Forest adding his excellent analysis.
It is the upstream bug that I think could usefully be updated with more information to help it get attention. I can't do it properly myself, because I don't have a first-hand analysis of the chain of events that causes the symptoms, the way Forest does. As for the concern that key storage would be insecure: Enabling auto- login generally means "Anybody who turns this computer on can see my private stuff." I should not be prohibited from making that tradeoff between security and convenience, certainly not by a cascade of bugs and flawed bug-fixing decisions. In any case, I found an alternate workaround for my problem: remove network-manager and network-manager-gnome, and install the network management package "wicd" instead. After you use "wicd-curses" to configure the wireless network, you can both auto-logon and auto-connect to wireless. This doesn't help with "empathy" but that's not the issue that brought me here. -- Error communicating with gnome-keyring-daemon https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/569667 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