Software Centre asks for password to unlock login keyring

[markling]

I cannot login to the Ubuntu Software Center without getting the following prompt:

"Enter password to unlock your login keyring
The login keyring did not get unlocked when you logged onto your computer".

This is a fairly fresh installation of Xubuntu 13. I have never been prompted for a keyring password. I have never touched anything related to the keyring. I do not even know if I have a keyring password, let alone what my password is. I would assume it is the same as my login password. But if that's the case, shouldn't it be logged in? Why does everything else get along fine without prompting me for this information? This message is to me as a user, spurious, confusing, unhelpful, and slightly worrying because it is related to system security.

[Dave Morley (davmor2)]

Did you set your system to autologin? If so then the gnome-keyring manager will never of been given a password. So it is simply asking you to:
1. create a password for it
2. input that password so it can access the stored details.

On a gnome or unity setup this is all done automagically however I'm not sure about xubuntu.

[markling (markling)]

Dave please excuse this late reply to your questions.

In answer, I don't know. I've not changed anything. This is therefore an error.

This may be related:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-keyring/+bug/575877

[markling (markling)]

That was nonsense, what I said about Tor. It's not Tor at all.