I do think this can be closed. The cause was self inflicted with a cron entry intended to kill 'rec' with pkill. The pkill pattern included 'rec' which matched "directory" in the gnome-keyring-daemon command line.
I offered a more complete write up on the debian-user mailing list: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2024/02/msg00800.html - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41 F689 BBA6 FB2C 5130 D55A 8819
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