Ubuntu 16.04 some applications take too long to start up

Question

When I start up Ubuntu 16.04 some applications take too long to run the first time I open them, including Chrome and any PDF viewer. Others, like nautilus, start up immediately.

The first time I try to use a PDF viewer like okular, it takes too long to open. After it opens a PDF file for the first time, other files open quickly. Even if I close all and open some after a long time, it happens quickly.

How can I speed up these programs opening on the first run?

Solution

I got the same problem out of the blue on my new notebook. After that I did a new ubuntu installation on a desktop machine, and the problem didn't happened there.

After some research, I found the solution here on the Arch Linux Forums

Close all your apps (like Chrome) and try running the following command on a terminal:

gnome-keyring-daemon &

After that, open Chrome again. It might ask for your account password again once. For me this solves the delay problem. Chrome and gnome-terminal are opening very fast now (< 1 sec delay instead 30 sec delay).

For you knowledge, Chrome was throwing the following error before this fix:

Gkr-Message: secret service operation failed: Did not receive a reply.
Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.

I logged Chrome startup with strace, and this message alone took 25 seconds to appear. I guess this is a system message, not only for Chrome, because I was having the same issue with gnome-terminal starting up as well, and this fix solve that issue too.

Comments

[Admin]

Using an SSD would for sure speed things up - as reading data from disk is faster.

[Terrance]

I have been fighting with this thing for a while and good job! That is what it took. Many thanks! +1

[Anwar]

How is it going to solve the problem actually? Can you explain?

[Anwar]

The problem is with gnome-keyring-daemon for sure, but this answer didn't help me because there were gnome-keyring-daemon already running. This answer helped askubuntu.com/a/911755/61218

[user1020989]

This command only works once. This happens every time with startup. Before shooting me elsewhere, could you update your post to explain what you've learned and what gnome-keyring-daemon & is and does? Thank you

[Admin]

Wow! That wanted to remove a large pile of wanted applications.