New Keyring not creating in Ubuntu headless renv

[anemiroffsumer]

Distributor ID: Ubuntu (HEADLESS)
Description: Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS
Release: 22.04
Codename: jammy

We are running R in non sudo mode as a user. When trying to create a keyring:

sudo keyring::keyring_create(keyring = "example")

We get:

Error: unexpected symbol in "sudo keyring"

keyring::keyring_create(keyring = "dbsumeR_keyring")
Password:
OK
Error in b_ss_keyring_create_direct(self, private, keyring, password) :
Secret service keyring error in 'create_keyring': 'No such secret collection at path: /'
In addition: Warning message:
In b_ss_keyring_create_direct(self, private, keyring, password) :
Password ignored, will be read interactively

sudo keyring::keyring_create(keyring = "dbsumeR_keyring")
Error: unexpected symbol in "sudo keyring"
keyring::keyring_create(keyring = "dbsumeR_keyring")
Password:
OK
Error in b_ss_keyring_create_direct(self, private, keyring, password) :
Secret service keyring error in 'create_keyring': 'No such secret collection at path: /'
In addition: Warning message:
In b_ss_keyring_create_direct(self, private, keyring, password) :
Password ignored, will be read interactively

When running R in Sudo mode

We are able to successfully create a Keyring and a OK status returns.

How can we allow keyring creation in user mode within R ?

[Gábor Csárdi]

sudo keyring::keyring_create(keyring = "example")

That is not valid R syntax, so I am not sure how this can be successful. You are clearly getting an error.

[anemiroffsumer]

Ignore the Sudo part. I did not mean to add that syntax in. I realize thats invalid.

keyring::keyring_create(keyring = "dbsumeR_keyring")
Password:
OKb
Error in b_ss_keyring_create_direct(self, private, keyring, password) :
Secret service keyring error in 'create_keyring': 'No such secret collection at path: /'
In addition: Warning message:
In b_ss_keyring_create_direct(self, private, keyring, password) :
Password ignored, will be read interactively

That is the error message in a non sudo version of R

[Gábor Csárdi]

Can you include a stack trace? I.e. the output of traceback() right after error happens?

[anemiroffsumer]

Of course

[anemiroffsumer]

Hi, is this what you want?

keyring::keyring_create(keyring = "dbsumeR_keyring")
Password:
OK
Error in b_ss_keyring_create_direct(self, private, keyring, password) :
Secret service keyring error in 'create_keyring': 'No such secret collection at path: /'
In addition: Warning message:
In b_ss_keyring_create_direct(self, private, keyring, password) :
Password ignored, will be read interactively

traceback()
5: b_ss_keyring_create_direct(self, private, keyring, password)
4: private$keyring_create_direct(keyring, password)
3: b_ss_keyring_create(self, private, keyring, password)
2: default_backend()$keyring_create(keyring, password)
1: keyring::keyring_create(keyring = "dbsumeR_keyring")

[Gábor Csárdi]

Maybe this is a permission issue, and your regular user does not have access to some files it needs to have access to?