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[Gustavo <2127493@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

Hello,

I am experiencing critical system instability on a fresh installation of
Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS. The main symptoms are random application crashes
(especially Brave browser) with SIGSEGV errors.

The system logs (`journalctl -p 3 -xb`) consistently show that essential
gnome-session services are failing to start upon user login.

Key errors include:
- gkr-pam: unable to locate daemon control file
- Failed to start app-gnome-gnome\x2dkeyring\x2dsecrets...scope
- Failed to start app-gnome-gnome\x2dkeyring\x2dpkcs11...scope
- Failed to start app-gnome-gnome\x2dkeyring\x2dssh...scope
- Failed to start app-gnome-at\x2dspi\x2ddbus\x2dbus...scope
- Failed to start app-gnome-user\x2ddirs\x2dupdate\x2dgtk...scope

We have performed extensive troubleshooting, and the problem persists. Steps taken:
1.  System is fully updated (`sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade`).
2.  Confirmed the session is "Ubuntu on Xorg".
3.  Disabled automatic login.
4.  Completely reset the keyring by deleting all files in `~/.local/share/keyrings/`.

After resetting the keyring, the system was stable for a few hours, but
the problem returned with the exact same errors in the journal.

**Crucially, we created a brand new user account, and the exact same
keyring and session service failures occurred on the first login.**

This confirms the issue is not related to a corrupted user profile
configuration, but appears to be a system-level bug in how the user
session is initialized in Ubuntu 24.04.

The `ubuntu-bug` tool should have attached system information and logs
automatically.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 24.04
Package: gnome-session (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.8.0-85.85-generic 6.8.12
Uname: Linux 6.8.0-85-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.28.1-0ubuntu3.8
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Fri Oct 10 12:25:46 2025
InstallationDate: Installed on 2023-03-12 (943 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" - Release amd64 (20220809.1)
SourcePackage: gnome-session
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: gnome-session (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug noble wayland-session

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2127493

Title:
  Gnome-session services (gnome-keyring, etc.) fail to start on login,
  even on new user profile

Status in gnome-session package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Hello,

  I am experiencing critical system instability on a fresh installation
  of Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS. The main symptoms are random application
  crashes (especially Brave browser) with SIGSEGV errors.

  The system logs (`journalctl -p 3 -xb`) consistently show that
  essential gnome-session services are failing to start upon user login.

  Key errors include:
  - gkr-pam: unable to locate daemon control file
  - Failed to start app-gnome-gnome\x2dkeyring\x2dsecrets...scope
  - Failed to start app-gnome-gnome\x2dkeyring\x2dpkcs11...scope
  - Failed to start app-gnome-gnome\x2dkeyring\x2dssh...scope
  - Failed to start app-gnome-at\x2dspi\x2ddbus\x2dbus...scope
  - Failed to start app-gnome-user\x2ddirs\x2dupdate\x2dgtk...scope

  We have performed extensive troubleshooting, and the problem persists. Steps taken:
  1.  System is fully updated (`sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade`).
  2.  Confirmed the session is "Ubuntu on Xorg".
  3.  Disabled automatic login.
  4.  Completely reset the keyring by deleting all files in `~/.local/share/keyrings/`.

  After resetting the keyring, the system was stable for a few hours,
  but the problem returned with the exact same errors in the journal.

  **Crucially, we created a brand new user account, and the exact same
  keyring and session service failures occurred on the first login.**

  This confirms the issue is not related to a corrupted user profile
  configuration, but appears to be a system-level bug in how the user
  session is initialized in Ubuntu 24.04.

  The `ubuntu-bug` tool should have attached system information and logs
  automatically.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 24.04
  Package: gnome-session (not installed)
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.8.0-85.85-generic 6.8.12
  Uname: Linux 6.8.0-85-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.28.1-0ubuntu3.8
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Fri Oct 10 12:25:46 2025
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2023-03-12 (943 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" - Release amd64 (20220809.1)
  SourcePackage: gnome-session
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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