Error saving credentials: error storing credentials in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

[thishandp7]

Hi there,
when I try to log into docker hub from the CLI to push and pull the images, I'm getting this error. My os is Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

`Error saving credentials: error storing credentials - err: exit status 1, out: `Error calling StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.secrets: Timeout was reached``

Setps to reproduce :

1. docker login
2. enter username once prompt
3. enter password once prompt

Following are my docker version and docker info

docker version

`Client:
 Version:      18.05.0-ce
 API version:  1.37
 Go version:   go1.9.5
 Git commit:   f150324
 Built:        Wed May  9 22:16:13 2018
 OS/Arch:      linux/amd64
 Experimental: false
 Orchestrator: swarm

Server:
 Engine:
  Version:      18.05.0-ce
  API version:  1.37 (minimum version 1.12)
  Go version:   go1.9.5
  Git commit:   f150324
  Built:        Wed May  9 22:14:23 2018
  OS/Arch:      linux/amd64
  Experimental: false`

docker info

Containers: 0
 Running: 0
 Paused: 0
 Stopped: 0
Images: 111
Server Version: 18.05.0-ce
Storage Driver: overlay2
 Backing Filesystem: extfs
 Supports d_type: true
 Native Overlay Diff: true
Logging Driver: json-file
Cgroup Driver: cgroupfs
Plugins:
 Volume: local
 Network: bridge host macvlan null overlay
 Log: awslogs fluentd gcplogs gelf journald json-file logentries splunk syslog
Swarm: inactive
Runtimes: runc
Default Runtime: runc
Init Binary: docker-init
containerd version: 773c489c9c1b21a6d78b5c538cd395416ec50f88
runc version: 4fc53a81fb7c994640722ac585fa9ca548971871
init version: 949e6fa
Security Options:
 apparmor
 seccomp
  Profile: default
Kernel Version: 4.15.0-23-generic
Operating System: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
OSType: linux
Architecture: x86_64
CPUs: 8
Total Memory: 15.58GiB
Name: 
ID: 
Docker Root Dir: /var/lib/docker
Debug Mode (client): false
Debug Mode (server): false
Registry: https://index.docker.io/v1/
Labels:
Experimental: false
Insecure Registries:
 127.0.0.0/8
Live Restore Enabled: false

WARNING: No swap limit support
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Thanks in advance

[allbann76]

have the same problem too

docker version

 Version:      18.03.1-ce
 API version:  1.37
 Go version:   go1.9.5
 Git commit:   9ee9f40
 Built:        Wed Jun 20 21:43:51 2018
 OS/Arch:      linux/amd64
 Experimental: false
 Orchestrator: swarm

Server:
 Engine:
  Version:      18.03.1-ce
  API version:  1.37 (minimum version 1.12)
  Go version:   go1.9.5
  Git commit:   9ee9f40
  Built:        Wed Jun 20 21:42:00 2018
  OS/Arch:      linux/amd64
  Experimental: false

docker info

 Running: 2
 Paused: 0
 Stopped: 4
Images: 43
Server Version: 18.03.1-ce
Storage Driver: overlay2
 Backing Filesystem: extfs
 Supports d_type: true
 Native Overlay Diff: true
Logging Driver: json-file
Cgroup Driver: cgroupfs
Plugins:
 Volume: local
 Network: bridge host macvlan null overlay
 Log: awslogs fluentd gcplogs gelf journald json-file logentries splunk syslog
Swarm: inactive
Runtimes: runc
Default Runtime: runc
Init Binary: docker-init
containerd version: 773c489c9c1b21a6d78b5c538cd395416ec50f88
runc version: 4fc53a81fb7c994640722ac585fa9ca548971871
init version: 949e6fa
Security Options:
 apparmor
 seccomp
  Profile: default
Kernel Version: 4.15.0-20-generic
Operating System: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
OSType: linux
Architecture: x86_64
CPUs: 4
Total Memory: 15.53GiB
Name: station01
ID: RJBW:4RWD:UFR5:PZUZ:TS47:QNJM:X54G:WY7J:LCMA:ODHW:LB5X:NQLQ
Docker Root Dir: /var/lib/docker
Debug Mode (client): false
Debug Mode (server): false
Registry: https://index.docker.io/v1/
Labels:
Experimental: false
Insecure Registries:
 127.0.0.0/8
Live Restore Enabled: false

[thishandp7]

I think this problem occurs because it couldn't find or create the config.json in home/.docker/. What I did was I renamed docker-credential-secretservice to something else and tried login in again. Then it created the config.json by itself and I was able to login to docker hub.
This is where I found the temporary solution to this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50151833/cannot-login-to-docker-account

[allbann76]

It helped me too. Thx!

[d4ichi]

Very helpful, I also had same issue on Ubuntu 18.04. Thanks a lot.

[GabrielAdeyemi]

Solution by Anish Varghese is the easiest on https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50151833/cannot-login-to-docker-account

[Mediadom]

sudo apt install gnupg2 pass

Work for me !

[bobbyzholmes]

@thishandp7 solution worked for me 👍

[mtijtsma]

@Titom222 Works for me. Thnx! 👍

[1c7]

@Titom222 Works for me.
(Using a Azure Ubuntu 18.04 machine with 8G memory)

[nmaas87]

@Titom222 Works for me, same error on 18.04 LTS, headless

[Ronan-Pikcio]

@Titom222 it worked for me also. (Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS on VMware)

[hasseller]

@Titom222
It works for me too and thanks to you.
Good on you.

[kineticz]

@Titom222 Still couldn't believe that worked...

0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.