gnome-maps: submitting OSM changeset fails

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I wonder if I’m the only one stumbling over this issue:
When I want to submit a change in the integrated OpenStreetMap editor of GNOME Maps (50.1, flatpak), it does no longer work. It stays forever in the “loading mode”. WiFi connection does work.

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I’ve started the application via CLI and got this log entry, when this issue happens:

(org.gnome.Maps:67): Gjs-CRITICAL **: 12:10:43.693: JS ERROR: GLib.Error secret-error: couldn't calculate mac
_onPasswordLookedUp@resource:///org/gnome/Maps/src/osmConnection.js:114:31
openChangeset/<@resource:///org/gnome/Maps/src/osmConnection.js:103:22
main@resource:///org/gnome/Maps/src/main.js:55:24
@resource:///org/gnome/Maps/src/main.js:58:5

I also installed gnome-maps via sudo apt install gnome-maps. When using this version (43.5-2~deb12u1pureos1), submitting changesets to OSM works without any problems :slight_smile:

For me it sounds a bit like a problem with unlocking the GNOME keyring. Because in the past when I submit an OSM changeset, there was a dialog for unlocking the keyring.

systemctl --user status gnome-keyring-daemon.service
● gnome-keyring-daemon.service - GNOME Keyring daemon
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/gnome-keyring-daemon.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Sun 2026-05-31 12:52:03 CEST; 3min 42s ago
TriggeredBy: ● gnome-keyring-daemon.socket
   Main PID: 1010 (gnome-keyring-d)
      Tasks: 4 (limit: 2706)
     Memory: 1.7M
        CPU: 230ms
     CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/app.slice/gnome-keyring-daemon.service
             └─1010 /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon --foreground --components=pkcs11,secrets --control-directory=/run/user/1000/keyring

Can someone reproduce this problem?

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It is unfortunate that this project in Gnome seems to be so badly documented or mentioned especially when they went to their new websites and left the old easy to use ones up. Sure I have always found a way to bypass the keyring issue, usually a cut/paste from some forum; but a good primer on how to really get gnome keyring to work for you and not a spooky black thought blob in the middle of my system. If you search ofr keyring in the new gnome handbook you get no returns. It feels like it is one of those accessories which is used thorough systems we are just supposed to know how to use like most stuff in a linux system, which I feel like we(in a community like this) do for most of a linux system, but Gnome keyring is still mostly a quiet mystery behind the curtain which is unnoticed until it breaks and then we are hosed.
(edit)
here is a nice primer, but it still doesnt really get into what programs in the system and up are using gnome keyring and why, like say OSM which shouldn’t be keeping any secrets.

this one is from arch and is more detailed

and more

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