syncdefaultsd wants to use the login keychain

I get exactly the same problem after sleeping where if you enter the password into the waiting dialog box for syndefaultsd your machine locks up completely.

Glad to have found a way round it by turning off the lock keychain option, but since that makes your machine more inescure it's hardly an optimal workaround.

Apple could do with fixing this bug.

Annoyingly I don't actually use iCloud so I don't know why it feels the need to request a password as it shouldn't be doing any syncing!

Be sure you try this. It worked for me and I did not have to turn off the keychain.

Go to KeyChain Access in "Utilities"

Go to Preferences

On the General Tab, select the button for "Reset my default keychain"

Reboot system

Good luck!

So as I was checking on this I realized that those settings Serenak mentioned were off to begin with; however, when I ran a first aid verify, it said that those settings are active and may cause a problem...

I turned the settings on, saved, turned them off and saved again. Then when I ran the verify in the first aid the warning line was gone.

I think that the bug has to do with a conflict in the setting Serenak mentioned, so my 2 cent is to change the settings and then back to what it was just to cycle through a 'save.'

This is exactly what fixed my machine, turning off the automatic locks on my keychain when the machine goes to sleep. I reset my keychain but that didn't help, tried this solution on my own, then saw S. Assassin did the same thing. Hope this helps others..!

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Serenak Assassin

Re: syncdefaultsd wants to use the login keychain

Nov 19, 2011 7:38 AM (in response to obizzle)

I have had this problem since I enabled iCloud...

and if the Mac is asleep and I wake it and the requester is up entering the password will cause the Mac to go in to a state where only a hard reset will get you out of it...

This seems to be a bug affecting the use of iCloud if the keychain is set to lock after inactivity or on sleep. Go to Utilities > Keychain Access, select and unlock the login keychain and then go to Edit > Change settings for Login Keychain. Now turn off Lock after X minutes of inactivity, and disable Lock when sleeping.

This should fix the problem - Apple need to fix the crash though, I don't mind it asking for the password, and I don't mind if iCloud isn't working if the requester comes up when the Mac is idle or sleeping but not having the request answered shouldn't break the system (which it currently does) and using iCloud shouldn't mean you can't lock your login keychain...

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Thanks for the tip on disabling the locks. However, as noted by others, this makes the machine less secure.

Does anyone know if Apple has this problem as a known bug?

I've also carried out the entire 'reset your keychain' approach. Found when I opened the old keychain the problem recurred. Copied all keychain items into the new, reset keychain, problem just switched focus to new keychain. The only thing that's helped has been turning off the lock settings.

Which really bugs me, on account of making my machine less secure.

I've tried cyberroth's advice to turn off the locks, save, & turn them back on, but in particular it's the 'lock on sleep' option that brings the annoyance back.

Man, I hope they fix this!

deborah

I just got the MSG this morning after the iMac had been idle all night long.

Running 10.7.3 OSX

We just updated my wife's computer to Lion from Snow leopard and had the same syncdefaultsd message problem.

What I did to fix it was:

1. Go to Applications > Utilities folder > Keychain Access.

2. Once Keychain Access starts then go to: Keychain Access menu > Keychain First Aid.

3. Fill in User Name and Password. I selected Repair and pressed Start.

(It found an error with Mail sync in our case) and reported the issue was repaired.

4. Then I restarted.

We have had no problems with the syncdefaultsd message since.

Thanks. Email providers had 'unspecified value for port attributes' reported.

Not sure if that was the cause though.

I did a 'verify' then I did a 'repair' then I did another 'verify'.

Hopefully this fixed it.

Yes... I did a Keycain REPAIR a couple of different times without any change... but... when I did a VERIFY then ran REPAIR several times in a row and then ran VERIFY and then closed Keychain access it seems to have fixed the problem... So far anyway

I too have been going nuts about this. What is more ennerving is that Apple has never acknowledged or even apologized for causing us these problems. This is THEIR doing, not ours, and yet, they´ve provided no instructions for us to fix it.

me too

Thank you, thank you, thank you, fdoug!! I've been trying to fix this problem for quite awhile now, and this finally seemed to change something, because I found out that my "Library keychain was not the same login as the keychain access." I did this repair, and we'll see if it continues to accept it without giving me the error message from now on.