Pidgin 2.7 under opensuse 11.1/KDE freezes because of gnome-keyring-daemon

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#1

Hi,

I was very happy when the powers that be decided to upgrade Pidgin to 2.7.7 on OpenSuSE 11.1 – indeed, it works much better; except for one small thing: the gnome-keyring-daemon issue.

Before the upgrade, Pidgin saved passwords on its own; but now, it locks them all under a master password managed by the gnome-keyring-daemon. I know this, because I get prompted for its password. I’m running KDE, so a gnome-daemon seems funny, but I thought it would be mostly harmless.

Alas, every now and then, Pidgin just freezes. I’ve discovered that when this happens, if I kill the gnome-keyring-daemon, pidgin goes back to life (and immediately prompts me for the master password again).

So – I have a workaround, but it’s annoying. Is this known? Is it just me? Is there a solution to this?

Thanks,
Shai.

#2

I’m also using pidgin with KDE and it’s working perfectly fine however I’m using 11.3. As far as I know 11.1 is out of support. Is there some specific reason why You are using it ? Also please post the results of this command :

zypper info pidgin

Part of my results (sorry for polish) :

Repozytorium: @System
Nazwa: pidgin
Wersja: 2.7.7-1.1.1
Architektura: i586
Dostawca: openSUSE
Zainstalowano: Tak
Status: aktualny
Rozmiar po zainstalowaniu: 3,9 MiB
Podsumowanie: GTK+-Based Multiprotocol Instant Messaging Client

Best regards,
Greg

#3

I’m on 11.1 because I haven’t found a good time to upgrade, and AFAIK it is still supported.

Information for package pidgin:

Repository: @System
Name: pidgin
Version: 2.7.7-1.1.3
Arch: i586
Vendor: openSUSE
Installed: Yes
Status: up-to-date
Installed Size: 3.9 M
Summary: GTK+-Based Multiprotocol Instant Messaging Client
#4

That’s funny that I have an older version from the same repo but I guess that’s not causing the problem. Maybe the list of You repos will help. Could You please post here the output of the following command ?

zypper lr -d

Best regards,
Greg

#5 
#  | Alias                                                                          | Name                                                                           | Enabled | Refresh | Priority | Type   | URI                                                                                                | Service
---+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+---------+---------+----------+--------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------
1  | Database-mysql                                                                 | Database-mysql                                                                 | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:/database/openSUSE_11.1/                          |        
2  | Games                                                                          | Games                                                                          | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/games/openSUSE_11.1/                                     |        
3  | KDE4-Facroty-Desktop                                                           | KDE4-Facroty-Desktop                                                           | No      | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Community/openSUSE_11.1_KDE4_Factory_Desktop/ |        
4  | KDE42                                                                          | KDE42                                                                          | No      | No      |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/42/openSUSE_11.1/                                   |        
5  | KDE:KDE4:Factory:Desktop                                                       | KDE:KDE4:Factory:Desktop                                                       | No      | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Factory:/Desktop/openSUSE_11.1/               |        
6  | KDE:KDE4:STABLE:Desktop                                                        | KDE:KDE4:STABLE:Desktop                                                        | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/STABLE:/Desktop/openSUSE_11.1/                |        
7  | Libdvdcss repository                                                           | Libdvdcss repository                                                           | No      | No      |   99     | rpm-md | http://suse.linuxin.dk/repo/11.1/                                                                  |        
8  | M17N                                                                           | M17N                                                                           | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/M17N/openSUSE_11.1/                                      |        
9  | OpenOffice.org_STABLE_                                                         | OpenOffice.org STABLE                                                          | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/OpenOffice.org:/STABLE/openSUSE_11.1/                    |        
10 | OpenSUSE:_Science                                                              | OpenSUSE: Science                                                              | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/science/openSUSE_11.1/                                   |        
11 | Packman Repository                                                             | Packman Repository                                                             | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/packman/suse/11.1/                                                        |        
12 | Wine                                                                           | Wine                                                                           | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Emulators:/Wine/openSUSE_11.1/                           |        
13 | devel:tools:building                                                           | devel:tools:building                                                           | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/tools:/building/openSUSE_11.1/                    |        
14 | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/misc/openSUSE_11.1 | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/misc/openSUSE_11.1 | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/misc/openSUSE_11.1                     |        
15 | mono-stable                                                                    | mono-stable                                                                    | Yes     | No      |   99     | rpm-md | http://ftp.novell.com/pub/mono/download-stable/openSUSE_11.1                                       |        
16 | nvidia                                                                         | nvidia                                                                         | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/11.1/                                                          |        
17 | repo-debug                                                                     | openSUSE-11.1-Debug                                                            | Yes     | Yes     |  100     | yast2  | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/distribution/11.1/repo/oss/                                     |        
18 | repo-non-oss                                                                   | openSUSE-11.1-Non-Oss                                                          | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | yast2  | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.1/repo/non-oss/                                       |        
19 | repo-oss                                                                       | openSUSE-11.1-Oss                                                              | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | yast2  | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.1/repo/oss/                                           |        
20 | repo-source                                                                    | openSUSE-11.1-Source                                                           | Yes     | Yes     |  100     | yast2  | http://download.opensuse.org/source/distribution/11.1/repo/oss/                                    |        
21 | repo-update                                                                    | openSUSE-11.1-Update                                                           | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.1/                                                          |        
22 | repo_1                                                                         | openSUSE BuildService - KDE:Community                                          | No      | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Community/openSUSE_11.1/                            |        
23 | server:database:postgresql                                                     | server:database:postgresql                                                     | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:/database:/postgresql/openSUSE_11.1/              |

Thanks,
Shai.

#6

On 01/05/2011 08:06 PM, shai2platonix wrote:
>
> I’m on 11.1 because I haven’t found a good time to upgrade, and AFAIK it
> is still supported.

Not for long.
They’ve announced to stop releasing updates after December 31st 2010.

Vahis

http://waxborg.servepics.com
openSUSE 11.3 (x86_64) Tumbleweed
2.6.36.2-3-default

#7

You could try getting rid of all the KDE repos instead of the one You’re using this would be removing 3, 4, 5, and 22. Also check if You have all the packages switched to the one KDE repo number 6. This would clear some things up but I really don’t know if this will solve your problem.

Best regards,
Greg

#8

Hi Greg,

Thanks for the tip – as you may have noticed, repos 3,4,5 and 22 are already disabled. I’ve just checked, and none of them have any installed packages.

Thanks again,
Shai.