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Keychain Access hangs after update to 10.7.2. Any help?

I recently updated to OSX 10.7.2 and can no longer open the Keychain Access app. It hangs on startup. A side effect of this is that I can no longer access my department's WPA Enterprise network as network preferences cannot access the certificates stored in the keychain.


Please help!

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)

Posted on Oct 14, 2011 3:15 AM

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Posted on Oct 14, 2011 8:05 AM

I work at a university and have heard from two students who appear to be experiencing the same issue: attempts to start Keychain Access cause it to hang before it displays the window (ye olde spinning rainbow wheel) and the attempts to connect to our WPA Enterprise network 802.1x result in a similar hang after they're prompted to enter their 802.1x credentials. Interestingly, we also have an open guest network which redirects users to an https splash page...the students can connect to this network and even ping outside, but the splash page never comes up in either Safari or Firefox. (Firefox eventually returns an error to the effect that "the connection has been interrupted."


Hope this additional information helps anyone who might have an idea of how to resolve this.

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Jan 17, 2012 2:40 AM in response to icecreamhead

Hi,


I have been experiencing the same issue for the past week now. I don't know if this issues coinsides with any update.


I can't seem to find any file called login.keychain. I did however delete all other file found in the Keychains folder. To my surprise once the computer had rebooted, my keychain directory was restored and intact.


This solution is only temporary: if my computer shuts down, sleep mode the process has to be repeted.


Exactly the same thing happens if I create a new admin account.


I have tried both to repair my disk permissions and run keychain first aid as suggested here wihtout much success.


My computer skills being rather rudimentory, I was not able to fiddle with the CRL and OSCP. I have no idea what they are and where to find them.


Any chance we'll be seeing an update from Apple?


Thanks for your help

Keychain Access hangs after update to 10.7.2. Any help?

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