I had been away for a period of time, and ran slackpkg update, install-new, upgrade-all.

I use slackpkgplus, chromium got updated to chromium-75.0.3770.142-x86_64-1alien.txz. Pepperflash was also updated to chromium-pepperflash-plugin-32.0.0.223-x86_64-1alien.

When I start chromium from a command prompt, I get this message:

I at a loss to find a fix. I have tried an older version on chromium, version : chromium-74.0.3729.169-x86_64-1alien.txz; however that fails with a different message.

This version works fine on current.

Is anyone else experiencing this type of failure? What am I missing?

Probably you need to install some application that provide "org.freedesktop.secrets" service like gnome-keyring.

gnome-keyring is installed. I had it disabled, I had re-named /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon to /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon.bak. I found the keyring to be a pita. Up until this last update to chromium, that worked like a charm. Now it appears I have to either live with the keyring being a pita, or disable it, and not use chromium.

Is there a way to have the keyring disabled, and use chromium?

If you use my chromium package, then open /etc/chromium/00-default.conf in an editor and add the line:
That will instruct Chromium to forget about Gnome-keyring or Kwallet and instead use its own built-in password manager which stores the passwords you save un-encrypted in ~/.config/chromium/Default/Login\ Data

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Eric, thank-you for that information. It worked like a charm.

If I remember right, on a full install, if you just click through the initial keyring prompts, it will never bother you with it again.