Under Keychain Icon, list is blank.

Can you explain further what you want to do. I can't figure it out from what you posted.

What does "under Keychain Icon" mean? What List is blank?

i think jeffdube is referring to the keychain access window. in the left column, 'keychains', the list is showing padlocks with only the top one having a title, 'logins'. the other padlocks are without a name, i seem to recall them having names in snow leopard, the two last ones are 'system' and 'system roots', hence the list is blank.

any ideas?

s.

Show Keychains. View Menu.

no, the issue isn't that the keychains can't be seen, it's that each individual keychain has no name. the list is showing nameless padlocks.

That's odd. Can you select where the keychain name would be and get anything in the display?

I don't know if it will do any good, but I would try to find and delete the com.apple.keychain.plist from your username/Library/Preferences folder.

if you highlight one of the said keychains, you can see the contents, as you can for the login, system and system roots keychain. the blank keychains are all locked.

at the top of the window, where there is a padlock which you can click to open the keychain, you have the text saying 'click to unlock the [keychain name] keychain'.

now, when i highlight one of the blank keychains, then click on the big padlock mentioned to unlock it, i get a prompt for the keychain password, but without a user as you would on normal keychain access prompts, so my normal password doesn't work, and so the keychain remains locked.

The login keychain won't have a username, just a password. The system keychain will present a username area for entering an Admin user and password. I've got a Microsoft intermediate certificates that asks for a password, no user name, and accepts nothing as the password (it is blank). I opened the Keychain List (Edit menu) and set it as Shared. It immediately disappeared. It was empty, as far as I could tell.

If your login keychain doesn't accept your account password (and you haven't changed it), it may be damaged. You could try Keychain First Aid in the Keychain Access menu.

yes, no password is accepted for the blanks, but still no name to be seen. the login one is user free, yes, i meant to refer to the system keychain where the name field appears.

keychain first aid reports no problems.

otherwise, the blanks don't seem to have had any adverse effect on the system. i noticed them not too long ago, but they must have been this way since upgrading to lion.

I think the blanks may have been made redundant with Lion. See my updates to the previous post. I managed to get the Microsoft one to vanish.

this isssue now seems to have been fixed in 10.7.4