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I'm using Funtoo keychain on Ubuntu 22.04 and I have followed the instructions to add the following to ~/.profile:

eval `keychain --eval --agents ssh id_rsa`

I'm running the i3 window manager, from GDM, and the problem is that GDM seems to run /bin/bash /etc/gdm3/Xsession i3, which invokes my ~/.profile script. This causes it to hang on the eval line because it prompts for a password. Since there's no interactive shell I can't add one and the whole log-in process stops with a blank screen.

To recover I have to edit ~/.profile to remove the keychain line, and manually restart GDM.

Is there an effective way to not have this log-in process blocked, but still have keychain ask me for a passphrase the first time I actually open a shell window in i3?

davidA
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I've found that moving the keychain initialisation to ~/.bashrc seems to solve the problem I was having at login-time:

# If not running interactively, don't do anything
[ -z "$PS1" ] && return

# keychain - moved from .profile to avoid blocking i3 login
eval $(/usr/bin/keychain --quiet --nogui --eval --agents ssh $HOME/.ssh/id_rsa)

This does result in keychain running --eval mode for every terminal that I open, but it does seem to work.

davidA
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