multiple prompts from gnome-keyring

I'm getting 2 password prompts here too suddenly.

Ok, working though this I have a work-around, but not a solution. Someone else can probably come up with a cause. :-) I have two keyrings: login and default. In the file ~/.gnome2/keyrings/default the default keyring is set as "default", and that is where all my passwords reside. The problem is that Ubuntu is expecting my passwords to be in a keyring called "login". If I delete the "login" keyring then the keyring is recreated, but is of course blank and is *not* set as the default keyring.

The way I got things working was to delete ~/.gnome2/keyrings/login.keyring and renamed ~/.gnome2/keyrings/default.keyring to ~/.gnome2/login.keyring. Then I edited ~/.gnome2/keyrings/default to say "login" is the default. This might be a roundabout way of doing things, but this worked for me. Now I just have to figure out why I'm not getting prompted for my keyring password at all - even though that keyring definitely has a password.

Seeing this issue as well.

Fresh install of Beta2. I can unlock the default keyring, but it regularly shows multiple prompts. Also the option to automatically unlock the default keyring is not available .

Yes!, this bug is really annoying. The strange thing here is that it happens to me randomly this way: sometimes it prompts once, sometimes it prompts three times. But it always prompts at startup.

Happening to me too; upgraded from 10.10 to 11.04 (uptodate as of today) and now I get 3-5 prompts on login. I do *not* have a default keyring; only login.keyring (and two keystores) in .gnome2/keyrings.

the same with infinite prompts: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-keyring/+bug/781485

Fresh install of 11.04 was asking me to unlock keyring at startup 1 or 2 times after I login in GDM.

The reason why it asks for keyring unlock multiple times must be because multiple applications start up at the same time and if more than 1 of them needs to retrieve a key from keystore, they both request keyring unlock, which get queued instead of blocking the second request and deciding whether popup is needed for it or the requested keyring has been unlocked (between the time application requested it and the time it became possible to bring up modal dialog for that).

I think it randomly selects number of times to ask for unlock - because whether subsequent dialogs will be queued up or not depends on when exactly apps are launched, which varies from start to start a little bit.

#3 fix worked for me perfectly. Doesn't ask to unlock any keyrings any more.
I think the reason it doesn't ask to unlock it even once is because by default it has the same password as the one you login with and login keyring unlocks automatically at the time of login (by GDM). If you change your password in either place, it should start asking.

one part of the issue was probably bug #744929

I noticed that if you enter the password into the first appearing prompt immediately after it appears just when other things still load after startup. I only get this one password prompt.
But if I do not enter it directly but wait till everything has finished loading after startup I will get 3 prompts.

I've been dealing with this problem for some time, now in 11.04. Somethings I tried seemed to effect but not eliminate it. A password set called login would be created even though I already had a default by a different name. Keeping user.keystore I deleted all .keyring files except login.keyring. Having only one set of passwords called login set as default in the file default seemed to fix the problem of three prompts but not consistently. After noticing that I only got one prompt if I responded immediately I experimented and indeed delaying responding to the prompt will consistently yield three to be responded to. This behavior is consistent with that reported by steros but I thought my additional insight might be of value.

I believe this is a duplicate of bug #744929. If I have thought wrongly, please feel free to unmark it (or tell me to) :)
There is an update to gnome-keyring that may solve the problem with multiple unlock prompts. If you could run that and check if it solves your problem, it would be very helpful.