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#77596
Emacs 30.1 secrets.el: Session not automatically re-established after Secret Service restart
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Reported by: spam <dont.post.me <at> protonmail.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2025 05:00:03 UTC
Severity: normal
Tags: notabug
Done: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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Your bug report
#77596: Emacs 30.1 secrets.el: Session not automatically re-established after Secret Service restart
which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.
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spam via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text
editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org> writes:
> Hey Michael,
Hi,
> Yea, if I M-x load-library RET secrets RET then it starts working
> again.
> I know there's also (secrets-open-session t) which makes it start
> working again but that's not what you asked about.
Reloading secrets.el calls secrets-open-session internally, AND resets
some internal variables. So it looks safer to me.
So we don't need to do anything, I guess. Closing the bug.
> Thanks!
Best regards, Michael.
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$ emacs -Q
(require 'secrets nil t)
(secrets-get-secret "Richie" "emacs auth source for org crypt")
"this work's because i had keepassxc open before emacs"
if i restart keepassxc and try again then i get a backtrace
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (dbus-error "org.freedesktop.Secret.Error.NoSession")
signal(dbus-error ("org.freedesktop.Secret.Error.NoSession"))
dbus-call-method(:session "org.freedesktop.secrets" "/org/freedesktop/secrets/collection/Richie/b25f5d1a9106417492657a0eae1db782" "org.freedesktop.Secret.Item" "GetSecret" :object-path "/")
secrets-get-secret("Richie" "emacs auth source for org crypt")
(progn (defvar my/ediff-pairs) (defvar my/video-file-regex) (defvar org-planfile) (defvar my/yogadora) (defvar my/yogabuntu) (defvar my/rakmac) (defvar my/oplmac) (defvar my/duckbookpro) (defvar my/yogadows) (secrets-get-secret "Richie" "emacs auth source for org crypt"))
eval((progn (defvar my/ediff-pairs) (defvar my/video-file-regex) (defvar org-planfile) (defvar my/yogadora) (defvar my/yogabuntu) (defvar my/rakmac) (defvar my/oplmac) (defvar my/duckbookpro) (defvar my/yogadows) (secrets-get-secret "Richie" "emacs auth source for org crypt")) t)
elisp--eval-last-sexp(nil)
#f(compiled-function () #<bytecode 0x298d38e0b8462>)()
handler-bind-1(#f(compiled-function () #<bytecode 0x298d38e0b8462>) (error) eval-expression--debug)
eval-last-sexp(nil)
funcall-interactively(eval-last-sexp nil)
call-interactively(eval-last-sexp nil nil)
command-execute(eval-last-sexp)
the session isn't refreshed. it's stale.
In GNU Emacs 30.1 (build 4, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.43,
cairo version 1.18.2) of 2025-04-05 built on fedora
Repository revision: 8ac894e2246f25d2a2a97d866b10e6e0b0fede5a
Repository branch: HEAD
System Description: Fedora Linux 41 (Workstation Edition)
Configured using:
'configure --with-x-toolkit=no --with-mailutils
--with-native-compilation --without-x --with-gnutls --with-threads
--with-modules --with-zlib --with-tree-sitter --with-sqlite3
--with-pgtk --with-rsvg'
Configured features:
CAIRO DBUS FREETYPE GIF GLIB GMP GNUTLS GSETTINGS HARFBUZZ JPEG
LIBSELINUX LIBSYSTEMD LIBXML2 MODULES NATIVE_COMP NOTIFY INOTIFY PDUMPER
PGTK PNG RSVG SECCOMP SOUND SQLITE3 THREADS TIFF TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS
TREE_SITTER WEBP XIM GTK3 ZLIB
Important settings:
value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=ibus
locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
Major mode: ELisp/l
Minor modes in effect:
tooltip-mode: t
global-eldoc-mode: t
eldoc-mode: t
show-paren-mode: t
electric-indent-mode: t
mouse-wheel-mode: t
tool-bar-mode: t
menu-bar-mode: t
file-name-shadow-mode: t
global-font-lock-mode: t
font-lock-mode: t
blink-cursor-mode: t
minibuffer-regexp-mode: t
line-number-mode: t
indent-tabs-mode: t
transient-mark-mode: t
auto-composition-mode: t
auto-encryption-mode: t
auto-compression-mode: t
Load-path shadows:
None found.
Features:
(shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message mailcap yank-media puny dired
dired-loaddefs rfc822 mml mml-sec password-cache epa derived epg rfc6068
epg-config gnus-util time-date mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse
rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045
ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils help-fns radix-tree cl-print
byte-opt gv debug backtrace help-mode find-func compile
text-property-search comint ansi-osc ansi-color ring comp-run bytecomp
byte-compile comp-common rx display-line-numbers secrets dbus xml subr-x
vc-git diff-mode track-changes easy-mmode vc-dispatcher cl-loaddefs
cl-lib rmc iso-transl tooltip cconv eldoc paren electric uniquify
ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type elisp-mode mwheel term/pgtk-win
pgtk-win term/common-win touch-screen pgtk-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset
image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list replace newcomment text-mode
lisp-mode prog-mode register page tab-bar menu-bar rfn-eshadow isearch
easymenu timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax
font-core term/tty-colors frame minibuffer nadvice seq simple cl-generic
indonesian philippine cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese
tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek
romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese
composite emoji-zwj charscript charprop case-table epa-hook
jka-cmpr-hook help abbrev obarray oclosure cl-preloaded button loaddefs
theme-loaddefs faces cus-face macroexp files window text-properties
overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget keymap
hashtable-print-readable backquote threads dbusbind inotify
dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting cairo gtk pgtk
multi-tty move-toolbar make-network-process native-compile emacs)
Memory information:
((conses 16 110808 9473) (symbols 48 8237 0) (strings 32 29262 1738)
(string-bytes 1 879652) (vectors 16 17821)
(vector-slots 8 214459 9445) (floats 8 47 668) (intervals 56 987 15)
(buffers 992 16))
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