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User profile for user: Sakahara
Sakahara Author
User level: Level 1
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Stop asking to use my keychain... OS X.

This has been going on for a few months (post Mountain Lion upgrade?). Anyways, it happens mostly after waking Mac from sleep, but also a lot of other times and I'm not sure why. And sometimes it won't accept input (type), nor Cancel either, it just keeps popping up, can't type in passowrd,... so I have to restart, although it gets in the way of that as well. Very annoying. Is this a glitch or have I unintentionally chosen some security setting by mistake? What am I missing here?

iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.1), 2.8 GHz, 4 GB, 320 GB, ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro, G-Drive Mobile

Posted on Jan 3, 2013 10:17 AM

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User profile for user: Network 23
Network 23
User level: Level 6
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Jan 3, 2013 11:55 AM in response to Sakahara

Sakahara wrote:


it just keeps popping up, can't type in passowrd,... so I have to restart

I've run into that too, the Stacked Password Dialog Boxes of Death. It's the one way I've seen that will stop OS X cold and force a restart.


The Security preference is not the only place to address this. Open your Keychain Access utility, and for any of the keychains causing you grief, select it and do Edit/Change Settings for Keychain, and change the "Lock after __ minutes of inactivity" setting, either uncheck it or increase the time substantially.


This will reduce the security of your Mac since if someone comes by your Mac and your keychain is unlocked they may gain access you don't want them to have, but if it's a desktop in a secure area the risk is smaller of course.

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User profile for user: Linc Davis
Linc Davis
User level: Level 10
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Jan 3, 2013 12:22 PM in response to Sakahara

The next time you have the problem, note the exact times when it starts and ends: hour, minute, second.


Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:


☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)


☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.


☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.


Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left.


Scroll back in the log to the time you noted above. Select any messages timestamped during that interval. Copy them (command-C) to the Clipboard. Paste (command-V) into a reply to this message.

When posting a log extract, be selective. In most cases, a few dozen lines are more than enough.

Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.


Important: Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.

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User profile for user: Sakahara
Sakahara Author
User level: Level 1
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Jan 4, 2013 4:34 PM in response to Linc Davis

Wait, there is an issue (it's asking for login keychain pasword after sleep or screen... when it's unchecked). But I thought you meant if it caused the other issues I mentioned above (unable to type in password and freezing).


Anyways, here's part of the log right before and after waking from sleep at 4:22:17;



1/4/13 4:15:21.396 PM sandboxd[11073]: ([11072]) mdworker(11072) deny mach-lookup com.apple.ls.boxd

1/4/13 4:15:21.401 PM sandboxd[11073]: ([11071]) mdworker(11071) deny mach-lookup com.apple.ls.boxd

1/4/13 4:15:21.000 PM kernel[0]: Sandbox: sandboxd(11073) deny mach-lookup com.apple.coresymbolicationd

1/4/13 4:17:09.000 PM kernel[0]: PM mode before entering WoW is 1 and PM allowed state is 1

1/4/13 4:17:09.000 PM kernel[0]: Wake reason: EHC1

1/4/13 4:22:17.000 PM kernel[0]: Previous Sleep Cause: 5

1/4/13 4:22:17.000 PM kernel[0]: The USB device Keyboard Hub (Port 1 of Hub at 0xfd000000) may have caused a wake by issuing a remote wakeup (2)

1/4/13 4:22:17.000 PM kernel[0]: AirPort: Link Down on en1. Reason 4 (Disassociated due to inactivity).

1/4/13 4:22:17.000 PM kernel[0]: en1::IO80211Interface::postMessage bssid changed

1/4/13 4:22:17.000 PM kernel[0]: en1: 802.11d country code set to 'X0'.

1/4/13 4:22:17.000 PM kernel[0]: en1: Supported channels 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 36 40 44 48 52 56 60 64 100 104 108 112 116 120 124 128 132 136 140 149 153 157 161 165

1/4/13 4:22:17.000 PM kernel[0]: The USB device Apple Keyboard (Port 2 of Hub at 0xfd100000) may have caused a wake by issuing a remote wakeup (3)

1/4/13 4:22:17.000 PM kernel[0]: HID tickle 138 ms

1/4/13 4:22:18.448 PM WindowServer[8829]: handle_will_sleep_auth_and_shield_windows: no action for lock state 1

1/4/13 4:22:24.558 PM configd[17]: network changed: v4(en1-:192.168.1.1) DNS- Proxy- SMB

1/4/13 4:22:28.000 PM kernel[0]: en1: 802.11d country code set to 'US'.

1/4/13 4:22:28.000 PM kernel[0]: en1: Supported channels 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 36 40 44 48 52 56 60 64 100 104 108 112 116 120 124 128 132 136 140 149 153 157 161 165

1/4/13 4:22:28.000 PM kernel[0]: Auth result for: d8:30:62:31:48:93 MAC AUTH succeeded

1/4/13 4:22:28.000 PM kernel[0]: AirPort: Link Up on en1

1/4/13 4:22:28.000 PM kernel[0]: en1: BSSID changed to d8:30:62:31:48:93

1/4/13 4:22:28.000 PM kernel[0]: en1::IO80211Interface::postMessage bssid changed

1/4/13 4:22:28.000 PM kernel[0]: AirPort: RSN handshake complete on en1

1/4/13 4:22:28.752 PM configd[17]: network changed: v4(en1+:192.168.1.1) DNS+ Proxy+ SMB

1/4/13 4:22:28.767 PM UserEventAgent[11]: Captive: en1: Not probing 'CGA' (protected network)

1/4/13 4:22:28.772 PM configd[17]: network changed: v4(en1!:192.168.1.1) DNS Proxy SMB

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Stop asking to use my keychain... OS X.

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