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mavericks update keychain access not accepting passwords

Every since I updated to mavericks I am gettting these pop ups that are asking for me to enter my keychain access password for all different access. Every time I enter my password it is rejected. I have tried to reset my default password, did not work. Tried keychain first aid did not work. In addition when I look for these keychain passwords for the websites they are not listed in my password keychain I cannot find them to deal with them indiviually. I have lost the ability to use safari, email,even system preferences. everytime I try to use them they freeze up and I am forced to use force quite. Frustrating to say the least. Can anyone point me in the right direction to assist me.

Thanks


These are the different pop up's:

1. talagent wants to use the "local items"keychain

2. com.apple.icloudhelper.xpc wants to use the "local items" keychain

3. clendarAgent wants to use the "local items" keychain

4.identityservicesd wants to use the "local items" keychain

5..accountsd wants to use the "local items" keychain

6.MAckeeper helper wants to use the "local items" keychain

7. AdressbooksourcesSync wants to use the "local items" keychain

iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Nov 3, 2013 10:01 AM

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Jan 20, 2014 8:48 AM in response to cliff from gray lake

Hello guys

I had same problem here, installed maverick last night then MacBook went all touchy with keychain, Mail , Safari not loading pages , impossible to log in in iCloud neither in settings or thru safari, no iMessages , etc. I tried almost all the tips on this post and nothing. Today I was on chat with a apple genius and after almost 2 hours of this and that , he decided to reinstall the software. So, this is what I did ( genius instructions )

Shut down Mac

Start back up the mac. Hold on command and R keys

Choose your language. English default

Install osx


Will give you options , reinstall the software or use time machine, which I was tempted to do and go back to Mountain, but I gave a try and reinstall Mavericks. About hour and half software was installed and restart MacBook.

Since then all was ok

No keychain messages

No mail password confirmation every 10 seconds

No expired certificates in safari

Pages loading normally

I lost all the passwords , but I'm trying to retrieve from my other MacBook.

If lucky will let you know.

Thank you for all the post and help by the way.

Hope this help :)

Jan 20, 2014 9:16 AM in response to pnp

I didnt loose any data so far, Iphoto ok, Itunes ok, and i just retieve all my passwords as i had hem with icloud keychain sync with my other macbook and ipad ( phew!)

So this was the instruction genius gave me


Shut down Mac

Start up the mac. Hold on command and R keys

Choose your language.

Install osx


computer will do the rest.

It works for me, hope it helps...

Jan 24, 2014 5:37 AM in response to cliff from gray lake

Here - Shellcode's reply - bingo - all sorted!

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5475160?start=0&tstart=0



  1. Open terminal
  2. cd ~/Library/Keychains
  3. ls
    1. When you 'ls' here you will see a folder that contains a bunch of random number liks so:
    2. 94ED610F-DD96-4ECF-A2BC-7D2F8651A464 (this number is unique on each system)
  4. rm -rf 94ED610F-DD96-4ECF-A2BC-7D2F8651A464
  5. Reboot
  6. <when you log back in everything should be back to normal>

Jan 24, 2014 9:57 AM in response to nws996

nws996 wrote:


Here - Shellcode's reply - bingo - all sorted!

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5475160?start=0&tstart=0



  1. Open terminal
  2. cd ~/Library/Keychains
  3. ls
    1. When you 'ls' here you will see a folder that contains a bunch of random number liks so:
    2. 94ED610F-DD96-4ECF-A2BC-7D2F8651A464 (this number is unique on each system)
  4. rm -rf 94ED610F-DD96-4ECF-A2BC-7D2F8651A464
  5. Reboot
  6. <when you log back in everything should be back to normal>


This worked for me. But if I clicked on the password box 1st I couldn't get into any other application.

Feb 3, 2014 7:47 AM in response to Steve Singapore

Hi Steve, many people seem to have succes with your sollution so I'd like to give it a try. But I'm stuck already on point 2..
I don't get what you mean by
2. Look for library in favourites.

I don't see any of those in the Finder menus..
Sorry I seems to be wired differently a lot of the time I just don't get what other get really easy..
Could you be a bit more presize for this dummie ..?!


Kind regards
Petra

Feb 13, 2014 9:46 AM in response to cliff from gray lake

This is how I solved the keychain problem...I went into an apple store and asked how do I defeat this and after a few minutes the guy said "I will have to charge you if I give you more information" so I grabbed him by the coller slapped him twice and dared him to say that again...by the time I was done he was willing to blow me....**** apple and their keychain...

Feb 26, 2014 2:07 PM in response to cliff from gray lake

Below short report regarding apparent reasons, conditions and solutions of similar probs as

described in the thread's starting message in case of our mac.

Maybe one day it will help other guys having a battle on it.

I didn't read whole thread, i am sorry for that, not sufficient time for it.


It was on practically sleek new imac late 2013.

First approx. three weeks upon had it got shipped i was just playing and on getting familirized

with new imac. No data migration/import nor app installation was conducted in that time, except

for few minor apps. Two accounts were created, one administrative, plus one with normal/non-administrative access rights.

Some day after that the password for admin account was changed one time.

In most cases however the normal account were used for playing with the new mac.

Upon those 2 till 3 weeks the boot ssd has been encrypted with FV2. This is the mac only internal storage -

this was also the reason for taking FV2.

The whole process of enabling encryption was conducted from normal account -

actually should not be any prob at all because osx is doing rights elevation each time

the admin approval is needed. So this way it ran in this case as well.

Encryption completed without any probs.

Normal user was able to log in without any probs.

However the admin got a strange error window while attempting to get logged in -

like probs discussed in this thread.

On one hand current/valid password for admin account was not accepted,

on other hand the term used 'keychain' did not fit to term known from the encryption process

'recovery key', so i did not try at all to use recovery key in several pop ups asking for the keychain upgrade/regeneration/continuation of login.

Have let it be few days long due to lack of time to search for nature of problems and possible solutions.


Finally the idea came, one day prior having initiated storage encryption the admin

account got a new password. So I tried the old one in the strange pop up.

It has been accepted. Over all up to three such pop up came. Every time the old/previous

password of admin account was entered. With acceptance. Since then the probs do not occur

any longer.

mavericks update keychain access not accepting passwords

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