On Sun, Jun 15, 2014, at 11:08, Francesco Turco wrote: > As you can see I have many gnome-keyring-daemon processes running as > root. I also noted that on my system /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon has > the setuid bit set: > > $ ls -l /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon > -rws--x--x 1 root root 940184 Jun 8 16:18 /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon
My problem is fixed now. It was indeed due to the setuid bit. See Gentoo bug 513870 (https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=513870) for more details.