I can replicate this problem on 16.04.3 after upgrade from 16.04.2. However, the package dragging in dbus-user-session are different in my case:
$ apt-rdepends --reverse dbus-user-session Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done dbus-user-session Reverse Depends: razer-daemon (1.1.15-0ubuntu1) razer-daemon Reverse Depends: polychromatic (>= 0.3.10-xenial) polychromatic Unfortunately I cannot remove dbus-user-session... I did stop the long pause on chrome using a workaround found https://askubuntu.com/questions/911877/chrome-and-chromium-are-taking-a-long-time-to-load/911896 by setting up ~/.config/autostart/gnome-keyring-daemon.desktop This still leaves me being prompted to unlock the keyring, which was not happening in 16.04.2 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-keyring in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1689825 Title: gnome-keyring not unlocked on xenial when dbus-user-session is installed To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/dbus/+bug/1689825/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs