[arch-general] Error when starting Opera
Hi. Just installed Opera 40.0.2308.54-1. Upon starting Opera, a dialog box pops up saying: --------------------------------------------------------------- "Enter password to unlock you login keyring The password you use to log in to your computer no longer matches that of your login keyring." Password: < password input field >" ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- After about 5 seconds, a grey window pops up, saying: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "“Loading... - Opera” is not responding. You may choose to wait a short while for it to continue or force the application to quit entirely." ... followed by two buttons, "Force quit" and "Wait". Clicking "Force quit" exits Opera; clicking "Wait" simply makes the window go away, with Opera started as expected. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Putting in my user password results in the message "The unlock password was incorrrect." If I click cancel, whether or not I enter a password, either way, Opera starts up, with no other (apparent) problem. Changing the user password, and even changing it back, does noting to change the login error message. I did a lengthy configuration of Opera, then re-started it. Same error. I re-installed Opera using pacman -Rsn. Same error. I cound not find any reference to this error in the forums, or any bug report. (Not saying it might not exist, it just did not see it.) This error does not occur for any other application program, including those that require entering a password for elevated privileges, to start. Any ideas?
On Tue, 20 Sep 2016 22:29:14 -0400, Francis Gerund wrote:
I did a lengthy configuration of Opera, then re-started it. Same error. I re-installed Opera using pacman -Rsn. Same error.
And after moving away or deleting $HOME/.config/opera ? I get tons of error messages and a stack trace when launching Opera by command line. Btw. "strip" is disabled. [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ grep strip /var/abs/community/opera/PKGBUILD options=(!strip !zipman) However, despite the errors Opera runs as expected, without an issue. I'm not asked to enter a password and I can't imagine why this should happen, excepted of e.g. https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/set-password-for-your-browser... https://www.google.de/?gws_rd=ssl#q=opera+requires+password Regards, Ralf
On 21 Sep 2016, at 04:29, Francis Gerund via arch-general <arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote:
"Enter password to unlock you login keyring
The password you use to log in to your computer no longer matches that of your login keyring."
If it asks for the password of the login key ring, it'so probably trying to store some confidential information (certificates, passwords, …) in there. The keyring is a secure place for Applications to save such data. On creation of the user account, the login key ring gets encrypted with the initial password the user used. As soon as you change that password, the password of the login keyring and the user account password don't match anymore, so your login keychain can't be decrypted upon login. Users usually don't notice this, until an application tries to use the login keychain. Then that popup message prompting for a password appears. You can try unlocking your login keychain with the password you first used for your user account (if you can remember). If you can't, you should use your keyring utility (possibly gnome-keyring) to delete your old and create a new keyring, using the same password you're currently using as your user account password. But that's why changing user account password doesn't fix it, as well as why the privileged password request still works (that's your user password, the login keychain is not). And I doubt that this is a configuration issue of Opera, unless you can disable its use of the keyring.
Thanks guys. Fortunately, I was able to remember the old password for the "Login" keyring. So I was able to change it from within Seahorse (the "Passwords and Keys" application program in Gnome). So that problem is solved. But . . . while in Seahorse, I realized that in the "Certificates" section on the left side of the window, there was another folder with a lock icon, labeled "Gnome 2 Key Storage". There seem to be no entries showing within it. The "Gnome 2 Key Storage" folder can only be locked or unolcked with the OLD password, not the NEW password. And it can not be changed or deleted from within Seahorse. I am using Gnome 3, so I don't know why it is there, but I don't know if it can be removed, and even if so, then how? And I do wish that I could at least change the password for it, since I hate to keep track of an old password just in case I need to use it to unlock the folder sometime.
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Francis Gerund
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Lukas Rose
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Ralf Mardorf