Actually only the minor part of your problem has been fixed, the password notice.
Still, the passwords, of course, should not disappear. And in my tests in the Ubuntu GNOME desktop they really don't. However, I just tested in my simplified dwm environment and I can confirm that, although the keyring is running and unlocked, the passwords aren't displayed in Chromium, but they are there in `Login Data`. So Chromium has been failing to detect[1] that Gnome keyring is available. When you observed that behavior, were you perchance in such a minimal environment — for which I filed LP: 2011474 —, or were you on default Ubuntu? Also you can verify whether or not Chromium is detecting that the Gnome Keyring is available by enabling logging and grepping for OSCrypt. E.g.: ---> % chromium --password-store= --enable-logging=stderr --v=1 |& grep 'backend for OSCrypt' [...] Selected backend for OSCrypt: BASIC_TEXT % chromium --password-store=gnome --enable-logging=stderr --v=1 |& grep 'backend for OSCrypt' [...] Selected backend for OSCrypt: GNOME_ANY <--- [1] https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs/linux/password_storage.md ** Changed in: chromium-browser (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Committed => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to chromium-browser in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2011281 Title: chromium snap upgrade "lost" my passwords Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: On upgrade to chromium snap revision 2333 (now since upgraded to 2367), I received a window with a notice about password migration: "Password storage via the Gnome keyring has been fixed, but for it to work, you have to rename your old ~/snap/chromium/common/chromium/Default/Login Data file so that a new, working one can replace it." I don't remember if I did this or not. However, when I went to use my saved passwords in chromium today, I found that they were absent. Tracking down the data in the chromium profile, I found that there was a ~/snap/chromium/common/chromium/Default/Login Data.old containing all of my passwords, and a ~/snap/chromium/common/chromium/Default/Login Data containing a single password entry for a site that I happened to have created a new login for in the past few days. That's not a very user-friendly experience on upgrade. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/2011281/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
