How can I avoid gnomekeyring.IOError?

When I run the app, I get the following error:

~$ python /usr/bin/gm-notify.py
** Message: secret service operation failed: The name org.freedesktop.secrets was not provided by any .service files
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/gm-notify.py", line 235, in <module>
    cm = CheckMail()
  File "/usr/bin/gm-notify.py", line 71, in __init__
    keys = keyring.Keyring("GMail", "mail.google.com", "http")
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gm_notify_keyring.py", line 12, in __init__
    self._keyring = gkey.get_default_keyring_sync()
gnomekeyring.IOError

Thanks,
Christopher