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Upgrade to Bookworm, now GNOME keyring dies--no access to stored SSH key passwords

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I now have two desktop systems running Bookworm with GNOME.  The laptop
was upgraded last month and I upgraded the desktop this afternoon.  I
have been using the GNOME keyring applet to manage the SSH public key
passwords I use as it prompts to save passwords and then lets me SSH to
other hosts without out a password prompt.

Some time after the upgrade I wanted to SSH into one of the other
systems on my LAN and was greeted with a password prompt for the
corresponding public key that had prior been managed by the keyring
applet.  I noted differences in the running processes between the laptop
where the keyring applet is still working and the desktop where it was
not.

On an off-chance I cold booted this system and found the keyring applet
was working as expected so I went on doing other things for a while.
Then I tried again and was prompted for the public key's password.
Uggh.

Right after rebooting the process list looked like this which mirrors
the laptop:

$ ps ax -u nate | grep "agent\|keyring"
   2037 ?        SLsl   0:00 /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon --foreground --components=pkcs11,secrets --control-directory=/run/user/1000/keyring
   2151 ?        Ssl    0:00 /usr/libexec/gcr-ssh-agent /run/user/1000/gcr
   2157 ?        Ss     0:00 ssh-agent -D -a /run/user/1000/openssh_agent
   3802 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/ssh-agent -D -a /run/user/1000/keyring/.ssh
   3922 pts/0    S+     0:00 grep --color=auto agent\|keyring

When I began this mail things looked like this:

$ ps ax -u nate | grep "agent\|keyring"
   2151 ?        Ssl    0:00 /usr/libexec/gcr-ssh-agent /run/user/1000/gcr
   2157 ?        Ss     0:00 ssh-agent -D -a /run/user/1000/openssh_agent
  12324 ?        Sl     0:00 /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon --start --foreground --components=secrets
  12325 ?        Ssl    0:00 /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon --foreground --components=pkcs11,secrets --control-directory=/run/user/1000/keyring
  19308 pts/0    S+     0:00 grep --color=auto agent\|keyring

It appears to me that gnome-keyring-daemon has been restarted for some reason.
As a result PIDs 2037 and 3802 are terminated and also
/run/user/1000/keyring/.ssh is no longer present along with the pkcs11 and ssh
files in the same directory.

I don't see anything out of the ordinary, in fact, these packages are
the same on the desktop and laptop systems:

debian-archive-keyring/stable,stable,now 2023.3 all [installed,automatic]
fasttrack-archive-keyring/stable,stable,now 2020.12.19 all [installed]
gnome-keyring-pkcs11/stable,now 42.1-1+b2 amd64 [installed,automatic]
gnome-keyring/stable,now 42.1-1+b2 amd64 [installed,automatic]
gpg-agent/stable,now 2.2.40-1.1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libpam-gnome-keyring/stable,now 42.1-1+b2 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libpolkit-agent-1-0/stable,now 122-3 amd64 [installed,automatic]

Now, while typing this email all keyring PIDs have vanished!

$ ps ax -u nate | grep "agent\|keyring"
   2151 ?        Ssl    0:00 /usr/libexec/gcr-ssh-agent /run/user/1000/gcr
   2157 ?        Ss     0:00 ssh-agent -D -a /run/user/1000/openssh_agent
  22418 pts/0    S+     0:00 grep --color=auto agent\|keyring

I am flummoxed.

TIA

- Nate

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Upgrade to Bookworm, now GNOME keyring dies--no access to stored SSH  key passwords Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2023-08-14 02:40 +0200
  Re: Upgrade to Bookworm, now GNOME keyring dies--no access to stored  SSH key passwords Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2023-08-15 04:30 +0200
    Re: Upgrade to Bookworm, now GNOME keyring dies--no access to stored  SSH key passwords Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2023-09-11 13:40 +0200
  Re: Upgrade to Bookworm, now GNOME keyring dies--no access to stored  SSH key passwords Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2024-02-19 20:30 +0100
    rec recording, Re: Upgrade to Bookworm, now GNOME keyring dies … David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2024-02-21 19:50 +0100
      Re: rec recording, Re: Upgrade to Bookworm, now GNOME keyring dies … Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2024-02-21 20:10 +0100

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