bernard.gray@ Thanks for the issue.

Tested this issue on Ubuntu 17.10 on the reported version 61.0.3163.100 and latest Stable 64.0.3282.140 and unable to reproduce the issue by following the below steps.

1. Launched Chrome and signed into Chrome to sync all the bookmarks, history, passwords.
2. Closed the browser and relaunched it again.
3. Can see the the browser is getting launched without any issues.
4. launched chrome through Command line and can observe no issues there as well.

Request you to please update chrome to the latest Stable and retry the issue and update the thread with the observations.

Thanks..

Hi, thanks for the reply. 

I just tested with chromium-browser=64.0.3282.119 on ubuntu 17.10, the issue is still there. 

Critical point to note, you probably have a package installed on your test machine that provides the org.freedesktop.secrets dbus service. You can check with the following: 
  dbus-send --dest=org.freedesktop.DBus --type=method_call --print-reply \
    /org/freedesktop/DBus org.freedesktop.DBus.ListNames | grep secret

If this returns:
  string "org.freedesktop.secrets"

Then you already have some package providing that dependency incidentally, and your test only worked through sheer luck.

On my system, the above command does not return anything - this is the critical part of the bug report:
  If Chrome *needs* it, it must add a dependency
  Else If Chrome *does not* need it, it must not hang looking for it

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bernard.gray@ Thanks for the feedback.

As per comment #4, executed the command in the terminal and can see the output "string "org.freedesktop.secrets" is returned.
Attached is the screen shot for reference.

Request you please check and update further on triaging this issue.

Thanks..

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Hi, 
As expected, your system has a package providing the "org.freedesktop.secrets" package. If it is standard ubuntu, then the package is gnome-keyring.

To highlight the problem, remove this package: 
$ sudo apt-get remove gnome-keyring

Restart your computer to force the Dbus services to refresh, then start your chrome/ium that you have previously signed in on.

You should be able to replicate the problem now - 

Thank you for providing more feedback. Adding requester "susanjunia.boorgula@techmahindra.com" to the cc list and removing "Needs-Feedback" label.

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As per comment #7, removed the package using the command $ sudo apt-get remove gnome-keyring, after restarting the system the system did not render anything and it showed a black screen.

Forwarding it to inhouse team for further triaging of the issue.

Thanks...!!

Tested this issue on Debian Rodete with chrome #64.0.3282.167

Observed that on uninstalling the gnome-keyring, i was unable to launch chrome

Adding appropriate label and cc'ing prudvi@ for further triage