This problem has arisen periodically for years. It has just arisen again on my computer. I've been running Xubuntu 13.04 since April. It just now started to ask me for a keyring password.
It says (and apologies - I shall have to report the precise message at next startup) - it says something like 'keyring password not set at startup'. The keyring password request occurs apparenlty randomly. And when it comes it prevents user access to all other programs. Unless you shut down the computer, you have to give it your system password. I second Alroger: this is most offensive behaviour. I don't want to give my password out to any popup - especially one that is random, erroneous and unexplained. Every time it happens I feel like I'm being fleeced by some phishing scam. I suspect it may have something to do with the Ubuntu Software Centre. The keyring problem started happening after I accessed the Software Centre's user account recently. It asked for a keyring password. It came up again when subsequently I opened the Software Centre just to download some software. And now it has stuck around. The kering just pops up at random in a session. It's been a few days, at a guess. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-keyring in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/575877 Title: gnome-keyring mysteriously asks for keyring password on startup Status in “gnome-keyring” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: gnome-keyring I recently (yesterday) upgraded from Karmic to Lucid. Now whenever I start up, gnome-keyring asks me for my keyring password. Note that I use a password to log in, and I also have a keyring password. So I am not using auto-login. What confuses me is that I cannot tell what application is trying to access the keyring. And when I am asked for my password, I am unable to switch to other applications, e.g. terminal, to perform any debugging. This behavior did not occur before the upgrade. As far as I know, I should not have to enter my keyring password until something actually has to use the keyring. And it should only unlock that portion of the keyring that it uses. But the dialog I get provides me with no information other than "an application wants to access the keyring". From apt-cache policy gnome-keyring: gnome-keyring: Installed: 2.92.92.is.2.30.0-0ubuntu3 Candidate: 2.92.92.is.2.30.0-0ubuntu3 Version table: *** 2.92.92.is.2.30.0-0ubuntu3 0 500 http://ubuntu.osuosl.org/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status From lsb_release -rd: Description: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Release: 10.04 ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 Package: gnome-keyring 2.92.92.is.2.30.0-0ubuntu3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2 Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Architecture: amd64 Date: Wed May 5 12:10:00 2010 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027) ProcEnviron: LANG=en_US.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gnome-keyring To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-keyring/+bug/575877/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
