Chrome asks for Gnome Keyring password????

[mike cloaked]

On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 11:38 AM, John Aldrich <jmaldrich at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Why does Google Chrome want my Gnome Keyring password? I don't use Gnome. I
> use KDE/Openbox. It *only* happens when I'm accessing my computer from
> remote using VNC, though. It does NOT happen when I'm accessing my computer
> from the local console.
>
> Don't know if that gives a hint as to why it's trying to open the Gnome
> keyring, but I thought I ought to mention it.

There was an issue some while ago related to chrome storing passwords
(for web pages) in the gnome-keyring which was largely transparent -
and then chrome moved to local encrypted store instead - if you are on
the most up to date version of chrome and had your passwords stored in
the gnome keyring then there is a procedure that will allow you to get
your passwords back into the local profile after which it will not
need the gnome-keyring any more.

The process is as follows:
Turn off password sync (if it is on) and quit Chrome
Restart it with the --password-store=detect command line to
temporarily enable GNOME keyring integration.
Re-enable password sync in Preferences, syncing your passwords to your
Google Account.
Restart Chrome without the --password-store=detect command line to add
your synced passwords to Chrome's basic password manager.

Once you have done that you should be free of gnome-keyring for
chrome, and then you can also copy the chrome profile to another
machine and it will see passwords as normal.

http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1230517

-- 
mike c