Chrome asks for Gnome Keyring password????

[John Aldrich]

On Mon June 20 2011, mike cloaked wrote:
> 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
>
Didn't work for me...  :-(