I run gnome on my nixos laptop, and if I use the fingerprint reader to login too quickly after starting the computer it makes me do it again, sometime multiple times. If I just let it boot and sit there 10 seconds it always works first try. I have read this is a common issue, but can’t seem to find a good fix for NixOS. Any help is appreciated!
Do you have a reference for the issue being common? It sounds a bit like GNOME Session Crashes with Auto-Login · Issue #103746 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub but I do not see the connection with gnome-keyring.
I couldn’t find a canonical issue, but I’ve had the problem of “quick logins on GNOME not working” for a few years, as commented here. I’m not using a fingerprint reader; just password.
This sounds like the bug I’m probably experiencing. Thanks for finding that! It never fails if I type my password, but that’s probably because I have a long password. If I use the fingerprint reader too quickly after booting is when it happens.
Thanks for the link but I think I was going down the wrong path thinking it was the keyring.
Some people reported that the workaround from that GH issue worked for them (the disabling tty1 instances of the services). You can try that.
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