9.04 Jaunty Network Manager Applet default keyring locked problem

[vahnx]

OMG you are a genious! It's people like you who should be developing on Ubuntu to make it more user friendly! It's problems like this that keep people from Linux.

[franki.macha]

slightly different take on this long standing problem - a while ago, i forgot my password and reset it. and have been bugged with the default keyring problem ever since - as i still can't remember the old password - i just cancel the message a couple of times and then enter the WPA network key.

Thank you, this saved me a headache, I had exactly the problem described in the original post, and I doubt that I would ever have asssociated it with my recent password change, now I guess I just have to figure out how to change network manager's password to keep it up to date... when I get the time

[mark.v]

I had this problem today, after changing my password yesterday, and specifically with Adobe Air running Tweetdeck.

I solved it by changing the default keyring password to match my (user) password. Note that I knew my default keyring password because it was my previous password (I installed Jaunty very recently).

I did this with the following steps:

• Open Seahorse: Applications / Accessories / Passwords and Encryption Keys (I'm fairly certain I didn't install this myself i.e. it came with Jaunty, but I may be wrong. Not difficult to install it if you need it)
• Switch to the "Passwords" tab
• Right click on "Passwords: login" entry and choose "Change password"
• Change the password.

Hope this helps.

Ideally I would think that the default keyring password should stay in sync when the user password changes but I don't understand all the issues around this. I do know it's a suggestion that's been made before though.

[derekge]

Thank you - this worked!

[fdsg72-lux]

Thank you so much! This is *NOT* intuitive and an absolute pain in the you-know-what! There should be a HINT/TIP on the dialog box that prompts you for the password about how to change it - better yet, a link to where this is explained - have been googling for days now whenever I got some time to "waste" and only found this gem this morning while sipping away on my coffee

[cmapesjr]

Many thanks! My problem is solved!

[model635]

Big thanks!

It solved my problem right away!


Jacques

[betterhands]

• Open Seahorse: Applications / Accessories / Passwords and Encryption Keys (I'm fairly certain I didn't install this myself i.e. it came with Jaunty, but I may be wrong. Not difficult to install it if you need it)
• Switch to the "Passwords" tab
• Right click on "Passwords: login" entry and choose "Change password"
• Change the password.

Hope this helps.

thanks much for posting this.

[Loosewheel]

i have a single user(admin)..and put it on auto-login...and now nm-applet says wired network device unmanaged....evry time i hav to manually bring eth0 up by
sudo ifconfig eth0 up
i disable auto-login..but now the problem stil persists!!
I had not used any keyrings and stuff..i went to the given link...but didnt find ne solutions!! pls help.

jaithehulk, I think tentwelveeight might be correct about the /etc/network/interfaces file. If eth0 is listed in there NetworkManager won't touch it.
Comment out any 'eth0' lines. Like:
#auto eth0
#iface eth0 inet dhcp
Then reboot.

[kounabi]

thanks for the tip...works perfect...!!!

the reason other solutions don't mention this is because in older versions there is no such button as "available for all users"...

i don't know if there's a similar way to solve it in older versions