DBusException – Could not get owner of name ‘org.freedesktop.secrets’: no such name

There are programs, which heavily depend on a password store. Not sure why they cannot live without it but if you get errors of the following:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 175, in activate_name_owner
    return self.get_name_owner(bus_name)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 361, in get_name_owner
    's', (bus_name,), **keywords)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 651, in call_blocking
    message, timeout)
dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner: Could not get owner of name 'org.freedesktop.secrets': no such name

The error is the same as:

The name org.freedesktop.secrets was not provided by any .service files

The chances are you are using a graphical interface, which does not start a dbus service offering “DBus Secret Service API”.
The solution is to start a program or service offering a password store, which implements the “DBus Secret Service API” offering the name “org.freedesktop.secrets”.

The best and easy workaround in the environment, which do not offer such service is to use gnome-keyring-daemon from the package gnome-keyring.

Just install the package gnome-keyring and start “gnome-keyring-daemon”:
Under Ubuntu:

sudo apt install gnome-keyring
gnome-keyring-daemon

CentOS 7 / Fedora

sudo yum install gnome-keyring
gnome-keyring-daemon

Gentoo:

root@local ~$ emerge -v gnome-keyring
root@local ~$ exit
myuser@local ~$ gnome-keyring-daemon

And after the keyring daemon has started the program, which failed before, now it would start normally.

Even KDE uses KWallet, which at present does not support “DBus Secret Service API” and you may experience such behavior under KDE Plasma Desktop. Execute the program in the console to see the output (aka the errors).

We have encountered this error with the latest version of nagstamon under KDE Plasma Desktop (5.15.5):

myuser@my-desktop ~ $ nagstamon 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 175, in activate_name_owner
    return self.get_name_owner(bus_name)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 361, in get_name_owner
    's', (bus_name,), **keywords)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 651, in call_blocking
    message, timeout)
dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner: Could not get owner of name 'org.freedesktop.secrets': no such name

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python-exec/python3.6/nagstamon", line 31, in <module>
    from Nagstamon.Config import conf
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/Nagstamon/Config.py", line 41, in <module>
    import keyring
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/keyring/__init__.py", line 3, in <module>
    from .core import (set_keyring, get_keyring, set_password, get_password,
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/keyring/core.py", line 154, in <module>
    init_backend()
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/keyring/core.py", line 67, in init_backend
    keyrings = filter(limit, backend.get_all_keyring())
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/keyring/util/__init__.py", line 21, in wrapper
    func.always_returns = func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/keyring/backend.py", line 179, in get_all_keyring
    exceptions=TypeError))
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/keyring/util/__init__.py", line 31, in suppress_exceptions
    for callable in callables:
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/keyring/backend.py", line 171, in is_class_viable
    keyring_cls.priority
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/keyring/util/properties.py", line 24, in __get__
    return self.fget.__get__(None, owner)()
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/keyring/backends/SecretService.py", line 38, in priority
    list(secretstorage.get_all_collections(bus))
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/secretstorage/collection.py", line 144, in get_all_collections
    service_obj = bus_get_object(bus, SS_PATH)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/secretstorage/util.py", line 55, in bus_get_object
    return bus.get_object(name, object_path, introspect=False)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 241, in get_object
    follow_name_owner_changes=follow_name_owner_changes)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 248, in __init__
    self._named_service = conn.activate_name_owner(bus_name)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 180, in activate_name_owner
    self.start_service_by_name(bus_name)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 278, in start_service_by_name
    'su', (bus_name, flags)))
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 651, in call_blocking
    message, timeout)
dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Process org.freedesktop.secrets exited with status 127

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