enter password for keyring 'default' to unlock

[joneall]

After installing GNOME in order to see if I would like it (I did not), I now get a message

enter password for keyring 'default' to unlock

every time I log on. This sucker blocks the keyboard, so I cannot do anything else until I kill it. Not being in GNOME, I can't figure out where to set a null password for it.

Suggestions, please.

[SteveRiley]

What's the output of

dpkg -l | grep keyring

[joneall]

$ dpkg -l | grep keyring
ii gir1.2-gnomekeyring-1.0 3.6.0-0ubuntu1 amd64 GNOME keyring services library - introspection data
ii gnome-keyring 3.6.1-0ubuntu1 amd64 GNOME keyring services (daemon and tools)
ii libgnome-keyring-common 3.6.0-0ubuntu1 all GNOME keyring services library - data files
ii libgnome-keyring0:amd64 3.6.0-0ubuntu1 amd64 GNOME keyring services library
ii libgnome-keyring0:i386 3.6.0-0ubuntu1 i386 GNOME keyring services library
ii libpam-gnome-keyring 3.6.1-0ubuntu1 amd64 PAM module to unlock the GNOME keyring upon login
ii python-gnomekeyring 2.32.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1 amd64 Python bindings for the GNOME keyring library
ii signon-keyring-extension 0.3-0ubuntu1 amd64 GNOME keyring extension for signond
ii ubuntu-extras-keyring 2010.09.27 all GnuPG keys of the Ubuntu extras archive
ii ubuntu-keyring 2012.05.19 all GnuPG keys of the Ubuntu archive

[Spadge]

Kill it with fire!

[joneall]

Kill it with fire!

Huh?

[Spadge]

Uninstall all the gnome keyring stuff with extreme prejudice if you're not using it.

[SteveRiley]

I think a couple of the libs are used by Telepathy-KDE, thus not every one of those packages can be purged. I'll check my PC in a bit and reply here with that info.

[Spadge]

I think a couple of the libs are used by Telepathy-KDE, thus not every one of those packages can be purged. I'll check my PC in a bit and reply here with that info.

spadge@Jupiter:~$ sudo dpkg -l | grep -i 'gnome keyring'
ii gnome-keyring 3.6.1-0ubuntu1 amd64 GNOME keyring services (daemon and tools)
ii libgnome-keyring-common 3.6.0-0ubuntu1 all GNOME keyring services library - data files
ii libgnome-keyring0:amd64 3.6.0-0ubuntu1 amd64 GNOME keyring services library
ii libpam-gnome-keyring 3.6.1-0ubuntu1 amd64 PAM module to unlock the GNOME keyring upon login

Those ones, probably.

[Spadge]

for i in `sudo dpkg -l | grep -i 'gnome keyring' | awk '{print $2}'`; do sudo apt-get remove $i; done
sudo apt-get install gnome-keyring libgnome-keyring-common libgnome-keyring0:amd64 libpam-gnome-keyring

I wonder if that would just reinstall all the others that were removed as well as the named four.

[SteveRiley]

$ dpkg -l | grep keyring
ii gir1.2-gnomekeyring-1.0 3.6.0-0ubuntu1 amd64 GNOME keyring services library - introspection data
ii gnome-keyring 3.6.1-0ubuntu1 amd64 GNOME keyring services (daemon and tools)
ii libgnome-keyring-common 3.6.0-0ubuntu1 all GNOME keyring services library - data files
ii libgnome-keyring0:amd64 3.6.0-0ubuntu1 amd64 GNOME keyring services library
ii libgnome-keyring0:i386 3.6.0-0ubuntu1 i386 GNOME keyring services library
ii libpam-gnome-keyring 3.6.1-0ubuntu1 amd64 PAM module to unlock the GNOME keyring upon login
ii python-gnomekeyring 2.32.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1 amd64 Python bindings for the GNOME keyring library
ii signon-keyring-extension 0.3-0ubuntu1 amd64 GNOME keyring extension for signond
ii ubuntu-extras-keyring 2010.09.27 all GnuPG keys of the Ubuntu extras archive
ii ubuntu-keyring 2012.05.19 all GnuPG keys of the Ubuntu archive

Keep the following:

* ubuntu-keyring
* ubuntu-extras-keyring
* libgnome-keyring0:amd64
* libgnome-keyring0:i386
* libgnome-keyring-common

Remove the others.

[SteveRiley]

spadge@Jupiter:~$ sudo dpkg -l | grep -i 'gnome keyring'
ii gnome-keyring 3.6.1-0ubuntu1 amd64 GNOME keyring services (daemon and tools)
ii libgnome-keyring-common 3.6.0-0ubuntu1 all GNOME keyring services library - data files
ii libgnome-keyring0:amd64 3.6.0-0ubuntu1 amd64 GNOME keyring services library
ii libpam-gnome-keyring 3.6.1-0ubuntu1 amd64 PAM module to unlock the GNOME keyring upon login

Those ones, probably.

Telepathy-KDE doesn't need the main service package, or the library for PAM, but it does need the other two libraries.

for i in `sudo dpkg -l | grep -i 'gnome keyring' | awk '{print $2}'`; do sudo apt-get remove $i; done
sudo apt-get install gnome-keyring libgnome-keyring-common libgnome-keyring0:amd64 libpam-gnome-keyring

I wonder if that would just reinstall all the others that were removed as well as the named four.

That command would also cause the removal of Telepathy-KDE.

[joneall]

Ok, guys, thanks. I'll see at my next boot (tomorrow morning) if that works, but I expect it to do so.

Happy 2013!

[Spadge]

That command would also cause the removal of Telepathy-KDE.

It would mark it as autoremovable up until the apt-get install cmd was run, no?

Or is that not how it works?

[SteveRiley]

It would mark it as autoremovable up until the apt-get install cmd was run, no?

Or is that not how it works?

No. The for loop runs apt-get remove individually on each item.

My machine has only the two libraries required for Telepathy-KDE:

steve@t520:~$ [B]dpkg -l | grep -i 'gnome keyring'[/B]
ii  libgnome-keyring-common  3.6.0-0ubuntu1  all    GNOME keyring services library - data files
ii  libgnome-keyring0:amd64  3.6.0-0ubuntu1  amd64  GNOME keyring services library

Here's the output of your for loop, running apt-get in simulation mode:

steve@t520:~$ [B]for i in `sudo dpkg -l | grep -i 'gnome keyring' | awk '{print $2}'`; do apt-get -s remove $i; done[/B]
NOTE: This is only a simulation!
      apt-get needs root privileges for real execution.
      Keep also in mind that locking is deactivated,
      so don't depend on the relevance to the real current situation!
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  android-tools-fastboot gconf2 gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg libgail-3-0 libgeoclue0 libgtop2-7 libgtop2-common libjavascriptcoregtk-3.0-0 libnotify4 libwebkitgtk-3.0-0
  libwebkitgtk-3.0-common zenity zenity-common
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  gksu gstreamer0.10-plugins-good kamoso kde-telepathy kde-telepathy-call-ui kde-telepathy-minimal libfarstream-0.1-0 libgksu2-0 libgnome-keyring-common libgnome-keyring0 libpurple0
  libsoup-gnome2.4-1 libtelepathy-farstream2 libtelepathy-qt4-farstream2 telepathy-haze telepathy-mission-control-5 ubuntu-nexus7-installer
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 17 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Remv ubuntu-nexus7-installer [1.7~q]
Remv gksu [2.0.2-6ubuntu2]
Remv kde-telepathy-call-ui [0.5.2-0ubuntu1~ubuntu12.10.1~ppa1]
Remv kamoso [2.0.2-1ubuntu2]
Remv libtelepathy-qt4-farstream2 [0.9.3-0ubuntu2]
Remv libtelepathy-farstream2 [0.4.0-3]
Remv telepathy-haze [0.6.0-1]
Remv libpurple0 [1:2.10.6-0ubuntu2]
Remv libfarstream-0.1-0 [0.1.2-1ubuntu1]
Remv gstreamer0.10-plugins-good [0.10.31-3ubuntu1.1]
Remv kde-telepathy [0.5.0ubuntu2~ubuntu12.10.1~ppa1]
Remv kde-telepathy-minimal [0.5.0ubuntu2~ubuntu12.10.1~ppa1]
Remv libgksu2-0 [2.0.13~pre1-5ubuntu3]
Remv telepathy-mission-control-5 [1:5.13.1-0ubuntu3]
Remv libsoup-gnome2.4-1 [2.40.0-0ubuntu1]
Remv libgnome-keyring0 [3.6.0-0ubuntu1]
Remv libgnome-keyring-common [3.6.0-0ubuntu1]
NOTE: This is only a simulation!
      apt-get needs root privileges for real execution.
      Keep also in mind that locking is deactivated,
      so don't depend on the relevance to the real current situation!
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  android-tools-fastboot gconf2 gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg libgail-3-0 libgeoclue0 libgtop2-7 libgtop2-common libjavascriptcoregtk-3.0-0 libnotify4 libwebkitgtk-3.0-0
  libwebkitgtk-3.0-common zenity zenity-common
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  gksu gstreamer0.10-plugins-good kamoso kde-telepathy kde-telepathy-call-ui kde-telepathy-minimal libfarstream-0.1-0 libgksu2-0 libgnome-keyring0 libpurple0 libsoup-gnome2.4-1
  libtelepathy-farstream2 libtelepathy-qt4-farstream2 telepathy-haze telepathy-mission-control-5 ubuntu-nexus7-installer
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 16 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Remv ubuntu-nexus7-installer [1.7~q]
Remv gksu [2.0.2-6ubuntu2]
Remv kde-telepathy-call-ui [0.5.2-0ubuntu1~ubuntu12.10.1~ppa1]
Remv kamoso [2.0.2-1ubuntu2]
Remv libtelepathy-qt4-farstream2 [0.9.3-0ubuntu2]
Remv libtelepathy-farstream2 [0.4.0-3]
Remv telepathy-haze [0.6.0-1]
Remv libpurple0 [1:2.10.6-0ubuntu2]
Remv libfarstream-0.1-0 [0.1.2-1ubuntu1]
Remv gstreamer0.10-plugins-good [0.10.31-3ubuntu1.1]
Remv kde-telepathy [0.5.0ubuntu2~ubuntu12.10.1~ppa1]
Remv kde-telepathy-minimal [0.5.0ubuntu2~ubuntu12.10.1~ppa1]
Remv libgksu2-0 [2.0.13~pre1-5ubuntu3]
Remv telepathy-mission-control-5 [1:5.13.1-0ubuntu3]
Remv libsoup-gnome2.4-1 [2.40.0-0ubuntu1]
Remv libgnome-keyring0 [3.6.0-0ubuntu1]

But even this is a little misleading. The first apt-get remove operates on libgnome-keyring-common. You can see that it will wipe out libgnome-keyring0, so the second apt-get remove actually won't do anything. But in any case, since APT refuses to allow broken packages, it will remove anything that depends on libgnome-keyring-common, including Telepathy-KDE.

[Spadge]

Ah yes, I see. Automatically removes everything that depends on what's being removed, tells you that you can autoremove everything that what you're removing depends on so long as nothing else does.

I get it