Unwanted keyring password pop-up

[JamesBrinton]

Binary package hint: seahorse

Every time I try to load Evolution or some other applications, I get a pop-up asking for the default key ring password. The window tells me that without the password the system is locked so far as Evolution is concerned. Since I have never set a key ring password this is very frustrating. Further, the pop-up will not go away, but returns again and again--I may have to click on the close window X as many as a dozen times to close it. Nor, so far as I can tell, does Evolution remember my email passwords, though instructed to do so in Preferences & account info.

Occasionally it pops up for no apparent reason, i.e., Evolution is not active, but the password request appears anyway.

I have seen similar reports on versions of Ubuntu dating back to version 6. I am using 9.04. Surely there has been time to fix this behavior, however, none of the published fixes appear to work for this installation. Do I have to uninstall seahorse?

Frankly, this is more frustrating even than MS Vista's nag messages -- those at least go away with a single click, but this thing comes back like a vampire.

I don't know whether the problem lies in Ubuntu itself, Seahorse, Evolution, or elsewhere.
The installation of Ubuntu was clean, from a downloaded CD (i.e., not an upgrade).

Hoping for help,
Jim Brinton

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/seahorse
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: seahorse 2.26.1-0ubuntu1
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: seahorse
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686

[Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy. Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

changing to an user question that's not a bug, the password is the one used for the default user account during the install