I recently reinstalled EOS with Gnome desktop and now for some reason every time I start specific programs (e.g. Chromium) I get the message: “Authentication required” “The login keyring did not get unlocked”, asking for my password.
Is it just me? I never had to enter it to unlock the keyring before, it just worked. Not sure if I changed something or if some obscure Arch package changed the way things work? I’d really like to avoid this dialog…
Try this configuring pam to automatically unlock the keyring.
Added both lines and rebooted, but nothing changed…
Try syncing the keyring password with your user password.
If that doesn’t work try and reset your keyring.
Hmm nothing. Nevermind, thanks anyway.
I had this a week ago, too. After a regular update on two laptops, all of a sudden I needed to unlock the keyring.
I have a fully encrypted disk and need to enter my unlock password anyway after boot. So I configured GDM to log in automatically. I also set my keyring login password to blank to avoid the dialog (via seahorse). This worked for more than two years until that update. I reset the login password with seahorse again and now it works again as before.
No clue why this happened.
Thanks, installing seahorse and setting the password to blank did the trick. I know it’s not secure but at least…
No clue why this happened.
No idea. Maybe gnome started storing apps passwords in the keyring only recently?
Thanks everyone