Random RuntimeError without keyring

[pspeter]

I'm using Ubuntu on WSL. Running any jrnl command using an already encrypted journal file without an available keyring backend will sometimes cause the command to randomly fail. It's about 50/50 for me, I have no idea why it is not consistent. If it works, it will just ask for the password, if it doesn't, the following error appears (using --debug):

DEBUG    jrnl.cli     Reading configuration from file /<path>/.jrnl_config
DEBUG    jrnl.util    Configuration file /<path>/.jrnl_config read correctly
DEBUG    jrnl.cli     Using configuration "{'journals': {'default': {'journal': '<path>/journal.txt', 'encrypt': True}}, 'editor': '/bin/nano', 'encrypt': True, 'default_hour': 9, 'default_minute': 0, 'timeformat': '%d.%m.%Y %H:%M', 'tagsymbols': '@', 'highlight': True, 'linewrap': 79}"
DEBUG    jrnl.cli     Using journal "default"
DEBUG    jrnl.cli     Updating configuration with specific jourlnal overrides {'journal': '<path>/journal.txt', 'encrypt': True}
DEBUG    jrnl.cli     Using journal path <path>/journal.txt
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<path>/bin/jrnl", line 11, in <module>
    load_entry_point('jrnl==1.9.8', 'console_scripts', 'jrnl')()
  File "<path>/lib/python3.7/site-packages/jrnl/cli.py", line 194, in run
    journal = Journal.Journal(journal_name, **config)
  File "<path>/lib/python3.7/site-packages/jrnl/Journal.py", line 39, in __init__
    self.open()
  File "<path>/lib/python3.7/site-packages/jrnl/Journal.py", line 105, in open
    journal = util.get_password(keychain=self.name, validator=validate_password)
  File "<path>/lib/python3.7/site-packages/jrnl/util.py", line 37, in get_password
    pwd_from_keychain = keychain and get_keychain(keychain)
  File "<path>/lib/python3.7/site-packages/jrnl/util.py", line 56, in get_keychain
    return keyring.get_password('jrnl', journal_name)
  File "<path>/lib/python3.7/site-packages/keyring/core.py", line 55, in get_password
    return _keyring_backend.get_password(service_name, username)
  File "<path>/lib/python3.7/site-packages/keyring/backends/fail.py", line 24, in get_password
    raise RuntimeError(msg)
RuntimeError: No recommended backend was available. Install a recommended 3rd party backend package; or, install the keyrings.alt package if you want to use the non-recommended backends. See https://pypi.org/project/keyring for details.

[wren]

Yup, we need to look deeper into some keyring related issues. Thanks for filing this!

[lock]

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