12.04 gnome-keyring stopped recognizing my password

[hazelsct-mit]

Hello,

I just updated a handful of packages yesterday in Ubuntu 12.04 for the first time in a couple of weeks. (Yes, I know, I should have updated to 14.04 a long time ago.) I rebooted, and did some simple things, but nothing that required a password.

Then this morning I tried to download new email in Evolution, and my gnome-keyring password which I've been using for eight years suddenly stopped working. (Yes, I know, I should probably have changed the password at some point in the past eight years, but it's long and complex and I like it.) The "Enter password for keyring 'default' to unlock" dialog comes up, but the password doesn't work. I have it stored separately in an encrypted file, and did an X copy and paste from Emacs into the keyring dialog, and that didn't work. Caps lock is not on. I can type it into a separate window just fine.

Is there anything at all I can do short of blowing away the keyring? Anything else I might not have tried? I like this feature of GNOME, and although (I think) I have all of my passwords stored in a separate encrypted file, would hate to lose the keyring and its secure and convenient storage of my passwords.

Here is the listing of /var/cache/apt/archives indicating packages which updated yesterday (since I forgot to delete them):

bsd-mailx_8.1.2-0.20111106cvs-1ubuntu0.1_amd64.deb
cpio_2.11-7ubuntu3.1_amd64.deb
python2.7-minimal_2.7.3-0ubuntu3.6_amd64.deb
python2.7_2.7.3-0ubuntu3.6_amd64.deb
libpython2.7_2.7.3-0ubuntu3.6_amd64.deb
mime-support_3.51-1ubuntu1.1_all.deb
libnss3-1d_3.17.1-0ubuntu0.12.04.2_amd64.deb
libnss3_3.17.1-0ubuntu0.12.04.2_amd64.deb
xserver-common_2%3a1.11.4-0ubuntu10.16_all.deb
xserver-xorg-core_2%3a1.11.4-0ubuntu10.16_amd64.deb
linux-headers-3.2.0-74_3.2.0-74.109_all.deb
linux-headers-3.2.0-74-generic_3.2.0-74.109_amd64.deb
linux-headers-generic_3.2.0.74.88_amd64.deb
linux-libc-dev_3.2.0-74.109_amd64.deb
python-lazr.restfulclient_0.12.0-1ubuntu1.2_all.deb
bind9-host_1%3a9.8.1.dfsg.P1-4ubuntu0.9_amd64.deb
dnsutils_1%3a9.8.1.dfsg.P1-4ubuntu0.9_amd64.deb
flashplugin-installer_11.2.202.425ubuntu0.12.04.1_amd64.deb
libbind9-80_1%3a9.8.1.dfsg.P1-4ubuntu0.9_amd64.deb
libdns81_1%3a9.8.1.dfsg.P1-4ubuntu0.9_amd64.deb
libisc83_1%3a9.8.1.dfsg.P1-4ubuntu0.9_amd64.deb
libisccc80_1%3a9.8.1.dfsg.P1-4ubuntu0.9_amd64.deb
libisccfg82_1%3a9.8.1.dfsg.P1-4ubuntu0.9_amd64.deb
liblwres80_1%3a9.8.1.dfsg.P1-4ubuntu0.9_amd64.deb
linux-generic_3.2.0.74.88_amd64.deb
linux-image-generic_3.2.0.74.88_amd64.deb
linux-image-3.2.0-74-generic_3.2.0-74.109_amd64.deb
ntp_1%3a4.2.6.p3+dfsg-1ubuntu3.2_amd64.deb
ntpdate_1%3a4.2.6.p3+dfsg-1ubuntu3.2_amd64.deb


Thanks,
Adam

[hazelsct-mit]

Hi again,

In another odd symptom, which may or may not be related, OpenOffice cross references stopped working approximately last Friday. Instead of figure captions showing "Figure 5: this is the caption", they said "Figure Number range Figure: this is the caption", and other references have other tags. The exact same documents open just fine in OpenOffice on a Windows machine. I hadn't rebooted or upgraded any packages in 2-3 weeks at that point, and OpenOffice had worked -- on the same documents -- just fine a coupe of days earlier.

Any ideas?

-Adam

[hazelsct-mit]

I filed this LibreOffice issue as Bug 1410809, along with a test document.