Cannot find keyring

[ramiromagno]

I'm on Arch Linux and I do have libsecret, libsodium and openssl installed.

> pak::pak("keyring")
✔ Updated metadata database: 3.05 MB in 7 files.                          
✔ Updating metadata database ... done                                     
                                                                           
→ Will install 1 package.
→ Will download 1 CRAN package (46.50 kB).
+ keyring   1.3.2 [bld][cmp][dl] (46.50 kB)
ℹ Getting 1 pkg (46.50 kB)
✔ Got keyring 1.3.2 (source) (46.50 kB)                                 
✔ Downloaded 1 package (46.50 kB) in 454ms                              
ℹ Building keyring 1.3.2
✔ Built keyring 1.3.2 (2.2s)                                     
✔ Installed keyring 1.3.2  (1s)                                     
✔ 1 pkg + 9 deps: kept 4, added 1, dld 1 (46.50 kB) [8.3s]          
> library(keyring)
> key_set("utg-pg")
Error in b_ss_set_with_value(self, private, service, username, password,  : 
  Cannot find keyring

[r2evans]

I'm now getting the same thing in my ubuntu-24.04 R-4.3.3, where keyring has been working without change for a couple of years ... I don't see anything obvious in ubuntu package updates, specifically libsecret packages have not been updated/touched since June (2024).

[gaborcsardi]

Well, keyring hasn't changed for three years, so I beat you there. :D

[r2evans]

Yes you win :-D

The issue self-resolved after rebooting ubuntu, suggesting it is an issue with libsecret or gnome-keyring-daemon. I added my comment above to reinforce that it can easily be an issue unrelated to this package. In my case, there have been no updates recently for libsecret-* or gnome-keyring (OS-level) packages, so I hope it was "just a glitch". It's the first time I've experienced it since installing Ubuntu-24.04 (and for a bit with -23.10 before that), so ... uncommon.