Why am I always asked to create a new keyring?

Question

Every time I have restarted mysystem, and use an application that might need a password (Thunderbird, Vivaldi, etc.) I am asked to create a password for new keyring.

It doesn't matter if I create the keyring with an empty password, the next boot I'm asked again.

I don't want to set a password, and I don't want to see this multiple times every day (once for each app that uses passwords).

I'm using an up-to-date 22.10 system (did a dist-upgrade yesterday).

Still didn't work after an upgrade to 23.04 this spring. I'm leaning toward doing a fresh reinstall for 23.10 to hopefully get rid of it.

Does this work for you https://askubuntu.com/a/1181666/1198244 , https://askubuntu.com/a/875/1198244 — Utkarsh Chandra Srivastava, Dec 20 '22 at 06:22
@UtkarshChandraSrivastava The first did not, the second was simply too old to apply. — Some programmer dude, Dec 20 '22 at 06:39
Search passwords and keyring in app menu , right click on login and then change password it should work. — Utkarsh Chandra Srivastava, Dec 20 '22 at 06:41
@UtkarshChandraSrivastava Didn't help, I am still asked to create new keyrings. — Some programmer dude, Dec 21 '22 at 06:52
For me, it seems to have helped to make one of the existing keyrings the default one. (Via Gui: Search for "Passwords and Keys", left hand side on passwords, right click -> "Set as default") — cis, Jan 19 '24 at 06:41
@cis I tried that, setting the "Login" keyring as default. Then I started a program that normally puts up four requests, and this time I got none! Seems to work, so please write an answer that I can upvote and accept. :-) — Some programmer dude, Jan 19 '24 at 07:07

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 19 '24 at 10:17

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It seems to help to set one of the existing keyrings as "default".

In order to do so via Gui:

In "Activities", search for "Passwords and Keys"
On the left hand side, in the "passwords" section, right click on the keyring you want to use
"Set as default")

answered Jan 19 '24 at 10:17

cis

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While this seems to solve the problem I ask about (and hence the accept) I still need to unlock the keyring once on boot. So it's a lot better, as I now only have one dialog at start, not many spread out over the uptime. – Some programmer dude Jan 20 '24 at 07:11

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 18 '23 at 11:28

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Try this!

Go to Activities/Applications(Whatever!)
search for Seahorse(Password and Encryption)
Go back if you're on the GnuPG keys section else click on login and click delete if you don't want the popup or else you may click change password and set it to none.

answered Jan 18 '23 at 11:28

Arjun K Shibu

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Tried and doesn't work. – Some programmer dude Jan 21 '23 at 10:39

Why am I always asked to create a new keyring?

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