GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 677138
Evolution constantly requests passwords.
Last modified: 2013-08-24 14:39:46 UTC
I am using Evolution 3.2.2 from Debian Testing on Mint 13 Debian Edition in the MATE desktop environment. When I open Evolution, it requests passwords for all of my email accounts, and then requests them again when I try to send an email for the first time with any given account. Every time I restart Evolution this occurs. I check the box "remember password" every time. This seems to be a common bug that lots of people are encountering, but none of the tutorials or fixes I have found online seem to work to fix the issue. I have gnome-keyring installed, as well as the full gnome-desktop package, but am running MATE-desktop. Do you have any solutions for this problem that work well?
Most likely you either don't have gnome-keyring-daemon running or the default keyring is locked, although for that the keyring daemon should prompt you for the keyring password.
Hi Matthew, Thanks for the information. I just verified that gnome-keyring-daemon is running: --- :~$ ps aux | grep gnome-keyring-daemon neltnerb 4069 0.0 0.0 227316 3484 pts/0 Sl 20:52 0:00 gnome-keyring-daemon neltnerb 4176 0.0 0.0 7812 896 pts/0 S+ 20:53 0:00 grep gnome-keyring-daemon --- I am definitely not getting a request to unlock it; do you have any ideas about where I could go from here? I have a half dozen email accounts, half of which I don't even have the passwords memorized for, so this is pretty annoying (and I realize that it is most likely not evolution's fault). Thanks for any suggestions, Brian
Did you file a bug report against your distribution? I don't see an upstream issue here (yet).
Yes, they directed me to post the bug here. Would you agree that it is actually a problem with the way that MATE/Mint 13 Debian Edition handles gnome-keyring?
What's the URL of the Mate report?
http://satisfaction.mint.com/mint/topics/evolution_continually_warns_of_bad_certificates I originally submitted it for weird certificate behavior (as well as not remembering passwords), but the certificate thing went away.
I have the same problem with Mint 12 using Evo 3.2.2 ... "Passwords will not save even if the tick box is used (remember password)" I have a fresh install and downloaded the repository version of Evo as i was wanted other features that T/bird was not offering. I would be interesting also to note "In the newer version of EVO - has this been fixed?" Then maybe we just need to upgrade 'outside ' of the repository version?? Thoughts?
Please provide the output of the command ps aux | grep gnome-keyring
(In reply to comment #8) > Please provide the output of the command > ps aux | grep gnome-keyring chris 9100 0.0 0.0 13456 880 pts/0 S+ 17:02 0:00 grep --colour=auto gnome-keyring
Chris: So gnome-keyring is not even running which is a basic for a GNOME session. Please complain to your distribution.