[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#681241: dbus-x11: prevent dbus-launch if it is already started

[Panayiotis Karabassis]

Thanks. Actually I came to the same conclusion and my final solution is
to wrap awesome in an awesome-after-gnome-keyring script. (Coming up
with a single sh command was too much for me :-) ). I placed in
Xsession.d a script just after the the startup command is determined
(around 56) to do the substitution. I suppose .xsession would work too,
I will try it later.

Just for the closure of it, the script 90x11-common_ssh-agent contains a
check to see if $SSH2_AUTH_SOCK is set. I assume this is an oversight,
because gnome-keyring-daemon sets this variable, but is started after 90x11.

Thanks, and sorry for your trouble,
Panayiotis

On 07/12/2012 06:02 PM, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On 11/07/12 17:42, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote:
>> I wanted to have access to the gnome-keyring in my awesome-wm session. Hence I
>> added "gnome-keyring-daemon --start" to my .xsessionrc. This however did not
>> work (for example subversion would hang while accessing its key) because
>> -apparently- gnome-keyring needs DBus to be running when the "--start" command
>> is executed.
> .xsessionrc isn't the right place to do this. I don't know where is, but
> you're likely to run into problems with activated session services:
>
> * activated session services are child processes of the session
>   dbus-daemon
> * so, activated session services inherit environment variables from
>   the session dbus-daemon
> * most scripts in /etc/X11/Xsession.d set environment variables
> * ... so if you start dbus-daemon too early, it will miss out on
>   environment variables that are set after it starts (see Launchpad
>   bugs 807614 and 809900)
>
>> Adding gnome-keyring --start to the $STARTUP variable also does not work,
>> because certain application such as ssh-agent mistakenly think that this is a
>> non-gnome-keyring session, and start themselves.
> I would suggest doing whatever gnome-session does to get a
> gnome-keyring. I think the equivalent is starting gnome-keyring just
> before awesome, from your ~/.xsession (not .xsessionrc).
>
> Regards,
>     S