"Save Password to Keyring" greyed out.

[joaoherberto]

Runing Fedora F23 X86_64, BIT 1.0.36

The "Save Password to Keyring" is greyed out, and I have python3-keyring and python3-secretstorage installed.

Any ideas?

[Germar]

Do you use Back In Time (root)? Root has no keyring so it can't be used with it. What DE (KDE|Gnome) do you use?

[joaoherberto]

Yes, knew about the root issue... Just using the regular user account on Gnome3

[Germar]

Please install python3-gnomekeyring and try again.

Maybe related to #473?

[joaoherberto]

Humm... python3-gnomekeyring is not available when searching dnf and I do have RPMFusion installed. How ever Package python3-keyring-5.0-2.fc23.noarch is already installed.

Aside from having to enter the password for the encryption every time I restart the laptop, it works flawlessly. Been using BIT for years, have it running on three other laptops, but those are running Fedora 22.

[Germar]

I found gnome-python2-gnomekeyring for Fedora 23. But nothing for Python3. Sorry, I have never used Fedora and can't help on this.

[Germar]

BTW did you try BackInTime 1.1.x for Fedora?

[joaoherberto]

ok, went through the procedure to remove the old version and followed the instructions to add the repo, this is what I get:

[joao@JOAOXPS14 ~]$ sudo dnf --allowerasing install backintime-qt4
Last metadata expiration check performed 0:05:40 ago on Tue Dec 22 19:57:50 2015.
Error: nothing provides pm-utils needed by backintime-1.1.6-1.fc23.noarch
[joao@JOAOXPS14 ~]$

I ran dnf update first and restarted the machine just to make sure... still got the same error..

[Germar]

I'm really sorry to say I can't help on this. I've no clue about Fedora. But also this is a problem with the Fedora package, not with BackInTime it self. So you should try on their bug-tracker.

[joaoherberto]

"Sorry, I have never used Fedora and can't help on this." No worries, I just recently moved over to Fedora from Debian/Ubuntu derivatives and I can honestly say that it is one if not the best distros I have ever used. Been using GNU/Linux for over ten years, it took a lot to move me over but once I tried, it just works.
I decided to just go back to the previous version, I can put up with entering the password...
Thank you for your time and effort, much appreciated... Merry Christmas.

[Germar]

Thanks. Happy Holidays to you, too.

[Germar]

Oh, BTW I just added more debug messages on keyring support. So with next version 1.1.10 it should at least show, why this doesn't work 😉

[joaoherberto]

OK, found problem on why "Save Password" is grayed out in Gnome3, Fedora 23, & ArchLinux/Manjaro Package "SecretStorage" is needed https://pypi.python.org/pypi/SecretStorage, apparently it replaces "python3-gnomekeyring". I switch to Manjaro and running BIT v1.1.12 it all works flawlessly with encryption.