Comment # 1 on bug 1223003 from Malcolm Lewis

(In reply to Andrea Manzini from comment #0)
> --- to reproduce on Tumbleweed:
> 
> # zypper install jrnl
> 
> The following 12 NEW packages are going to be installed:
>   jrnl python311-ansiwrap python311-colorama python311-markdown-it-py
> python311-mdurl python311-parsedatetime
>   python311-Pygments python311-pytz python311-pytz-deprecation-shim
> python311-rich python311-textwrap3 python311-tzlocal
> 
> 
> $ rpm -qi jrnl 
> Name        : jrnl
> Version     : 4.0.1
> Release     : 1.4
> Architecture: noarch
> Install Date: gio 18 apr 2024, 08:14:47
> Group       : Unspecified
> Size        : 514138
> License     : GPL-3.0-only
> Signature   : RSA/SHA512, ven 29 mar 2024, 17:09:55, Key ID 35a2f86e29b700a4
> Source RPM  : jrnl-4.0.1-1.4.src.rpm
> Build Date  : sab 19 ago 2023, 16:03:40
> Build Host  : reproducible
> Packager    : https://bugs.opensuse.org
> Vendor      : openSUSE
> URL         : https://jrnl.sh
> Summary     : Collect your thoughts and notes without leaving the command
> line
> Description :
> Simple journal application for the command line. You can use it to
> easily create, search, and view journal entries. Journals are stored
> as human-readable plain text, and can also be encrypted using AES
> encryption.
> Distribution: openSUSE Tumbleweed
> 
> --- remove any previous configuration
> $ rm -rf $HOME/.config/jrnl
> 
> --- create a new journal choosing Yes when asked to encrypt the data 
> $ jrnl 
> Path to your journal file (leave blank for
> /home/andrea/.local/share/jrnl/journal.txt):     
> Do you want to encrypt your journal? (You can always change this later)
> [y/N] y
> ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
> ┃  Journal will be encrypted  ┃
> ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛
> Do you want jrnl to use colors when displaying entries? (You can always
> change this later) [Y/n] 
> ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
> ┃  jrnl configuration created at /home/andrea/.config/jrnl/jrnl.yaml  ┃
> ┃  For advanced features, read the docs at https://jrnl.sh            ┃
> ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛
> ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
> ┃  Journal 'default' created at /home/andrea/.local/share/jrnl/journal.txt  ┃
> ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛
> ┏━ Error ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
> ┃  AttributeError                                         ┃
> ┃  '_PasswordRetriever' object has no attribute 'encode'  ┃
> ┃                                                         ┃
> ┃  This is probably a bug. Please file an issue at:       ┃
> ┃  https://github.com/jrnl-org/jrnl/issues/new/choose     ┃
> ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛
> 
> 
> --- any subsequent journal entry will give the same error
> $ jrnl foobar 
> ┏━ Error ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
> ┃  AttributeError                                         ┃
> ┃  '_PasswordRetriever' object has no attribute 'encode'  ┃
> ┃                                                         ┃
> ┃  This is probably a bug. Please file an issue at:       ┃
> ┃  https://github.com/jrnl-org/jrnl/issues/new/choose     ┃
> ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛
> 
> --- note: the bug is not present in upstream, installing the package with
> pipx works, so most likely the issue is on the package dependencies

So your issue has been reopened upstream. The work around at present is to
uninstall python311-keyring-keyutils, create the encrypted file and password to
be saved into the keyring. After that all should be good. You can re-install
python311-keyring-keyutils.