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Q: Mavericks Keychain keeps asking to unlock "Local Items" after install

Today I Updated my iMac from Mountain Lion to Mavericks.

 

After Installing the first boot went smooth but the mac after booting asked me to reboot again.

 

On the second Restart when the login window appeared also apeared a Password input window asking me to enter the password for several "LOCAL ITEMS" in the keychain but when I type my administrator password it won't work.

 

I hit the ESC key and the window appears several times asking for different password for several items that need access to "Local Items" in the keychain.

 

I tried opening the KeyChain and running the KeyChain firstaid but it didn't work.

 

Any help is greatly appreciated.

iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Oct 22, 2013 4:51 PM

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  • by Clif H,

    Clif H Clif H Dec 17, 2013 10:14 PM in response to mlagrand
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    Dec 17, 2013 10:14 PM in response to mlagrand

    OK that's progress mlagrand! Sounds like you just need to add in a step there between step 2 and 3 to recreate a fresh login keychain. That's easy.

     

    To create a new login keychain:

     

    1. Choose File > New Keychain.
    2. Type "login" as the name, ensure the location is inside the Keychains folder, and click Create.
    3. Type the password you use for your current user account for this keychain.
    4. Make the new keychain your default keychain, choose File > Make Keychain "login" Default (if not already indicated by listing the "login" keychain in bold in the left column of Keychain Access.
  • by Migge,

    Migge Migge Dec 18, 2013 12:42 PM in response to shellcode
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    Dec 18, 2013 12:42 PM in response to shellcode

    Thanks shellcode

     

    The use of Terminal to delete the file as you advised at the end worked for me.

  • by yasirali,

    yasirali yasirali Dec 18, 2013 4:59 PM in response to Npalamidis
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    Dec 18, 2013 4:59 PM in response to Npalamidis

    So I called apple support.  Apple has 90-days of free support for any new software.  It is a known issue, but the support guys didn't know why it is caused.  The solution is to remove the folder with a long alpha-numeric name inside the Keychains folder and restart the machine.  Upon restart a new folder with alpha-numeric name will be created and you should be good to go.  The Keychains folder is in the Library folder.  For command line lovers:

    1) ~/Library/Keychains/

    2) MOVE the alpha-numeric folder to another location

    3) restart the machine

    4) you should be good to go, if not call apple care support.

     

    For GUI loving people, this is what you can do:

    1) Go to the Finder

    2) Click on Go

    3) Hold down the option key (not the command key).  You should see "Library" appear underneath Home.

    4) While holding down the option key, click on the Library (if you let go of option, Library folder will dissappear from the drop down).

    5) Go inside Keychains folder

    6) Move the alpha-numeric folder to, say, desktop (or any other location of your choice)

    7) Restart

    8) Upon relogin, you should be good to go.  The OS will create another long alpha-numeric folder in Keychains folder.

    9) You can delete the folder that you moved, or keep it, or do whatever you like with it, but DO NOT move it back to the Keychains folder.

    10) if this doesn't work, I suggest you call apple care support.

     

    Hopefully this helped!

  • by gk5198,

    gk5198 gk5198 Dec 18, 2013 5:10 PM in response to shellcode
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    Dec 18, 2013 5:10 PM in response to shellcode

    shellcode's terminal instructions worked for me.

     

    Its funny the update was supposed to fix that problem. Although I didn't have the problem before I updated. The update didn't bother my mini or imac, only my 13" MBP.

     

    Thanks shellcode.

  • by BarkingGecko,

    BarkingGecko BarkingGecko Dec 19, 2013 1:42 AM in response to Npalamidis
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    Dec 19, 2013 1:42 AM in response to Npalamidis

    Thanks Npalamidis

    That solved my problem!

  • by murphington,

    murphington murphington Dec 20, 2013 3:43 AM in response to yasirali
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    Dec 20, 2013 3:43 AM in response to yasirali

    This solved my problem. Much obliged.

  • by Jaye Bee,

    Jaye Bee Jaye Bee Dec 20, 2013 6:25 PM in response to yasirali
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    Dec 20, 2013 6:25 PM in response to yasirali

    Thank you!  This is the only solution that worked for me.

  • by FerodoB,

    FerodoB FerodoB Dec 22, 2013 2:35 PM in response to Npalamidis
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    Dec 22, 2013 2:35 PM in response to Npalamidis

    Identical problem.

     

    I had recently installed Mavericks in a new I7mac when after a restart it suddenly started asking for all sorts of passwords to access the keychain, password was not accepted and the system began to hang preventing me from doing anything else. Eventually was forced to revert back to 10.8.7 to gain control. Tried most things from permissions to resetting password etc., but something appeared to have lost the link.

     

    Conclusion, something in Mavericks causes a loss of leychain links, possibly connected with icloud? Not worth fiddling about with Mavericks, will leave it to Apple to do something right for a change....

     

    Any suggestions?

  • by brownha,

    brownha brownha Dec 23, 2013 8:36 PM in response to Npalamidis
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    Dec 23, 2013 8:36 PM in response to Npalamidis

    shellcode: "This is bad advice.  You don't want to delete everything in ~/Library/Keychains as that will remove everything from your keychain that you saved."

     

    Actually I found pacote-san's advice really helpful. I had the same problem except on second restart something went wrong and totally screwed up my MacBook Pro. I could not open keychain or iCloud settings so I had to take his advice and it worked perfectly. I restarted, logged in fine, and then it prompted me to configure iCloud. I put in the password and set it up and got almost all of my password data back into keychain even after deleting it from ~/Library/KeyChain.

     

    Problem solved...

  • by EricUG,

    EricUG EricUG Dec 25, 2013 8:40 PM in response to yasirali
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    Dec 25, 2013 8:40 PM in response to yasirali

    Thank you that solved the problem I was having with the keychain.

  • by Klaus Blume,

    Klaus Blume Klaus Blume Dec 26, 2013 4:31 PM in response to Clif H
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    Dec 26, 2013 4:31 PM in response to Clif H

    Has anyone looked at Apple's solution?

     

    http://support.apple.com/kb/TS5362?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

     

    Cheers,

     

    Klaus

  • by Clif H,

    Clif H Clif H Dec 26, 2013 4:47 PM in response to Klaus Blume
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    Dec 26, 2013 4:47 PM in response to Klaus Blume

    Apple's solution is the same solution mentioned here: delete the Local Items folder to allow Local Items keychain to reset. It's all the same.

  • by duncanjw,

    duncanjw duncanjw Dec 26, 2013 5:17 PM in response to Clif H
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    Dec 26, 2013 5:17 PM in response to Clif H

    The only thing I would add is that having accepted Maverick 10.9.1 update earlier tonight when I tried to log in after it had been applied I got this "Local Items" keychain pop up which blocked my attempted log in.

     

    It was only when I rebooted that I was able to login and then apply the fix http://support.apple.com/kb/TS5362 which fortunately worked.

  • by MrZaricnak,

    MrZaricnak MrZaricnak Dec 28, 2013 3:14 AM in response to shellcode
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    Dec 28, 2013 3:14 AM in response to shellcode

    Worked perfectly, thank you very much! Although I hoped that times of terminal debugging were over after turning to Mac...:D

  • by i-SOS,

    i-SOS i-SOS Jan 1, 2014 6:48 PM in response to yasirali
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    Jan 1, 2014 6:48 PM in response to yasirali

    Works like a charm! Thank you very much

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