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I am on Ubuntu 20.10, quite a "fresh" install.

Very recently, every time I start the computer, I have to enter my password around 6 times, generally 1 Keyring thing, and many "Authentication required for..." "Create color profile", "Refresh repository", "something else about managed color"... and some of them will pop up multiple times. These pop-ups take full focus, like UAC in Windows, so I can't just ignore them either.

On researching this issue, almost every thread is related to remote logging in, XRDP, etc. However, I am not doing that, I am logging it directly at the physical desktop. They also reference a /etc/polkit-1/rules.d/ folder, which I don't have. Instead, I have localauthority and localauthority.conf.d folders.

The closest thing I can think of related to remote logging in on my system is that I have set up Chrome Remote Desktop although I haven't actually used it yet.

Is there any solution that is not specific to remote logins?

Larry Cai
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Accidentally found a solution that worked for me. Not 100% sure if it's the true fix.

I removed all nvidia-related drivers/packages sudo apt purge nvidia* sudo apt purge cuda* sudo apt purge libnvidia*

Restarted my computer, opened Ubuntu "Software & Updates" - it has defaulted to the open source driver, which causes big screen tearing for me.

Trying to switch it back to 460 (current latest as of writing) (not the server version) didn't work, threw a lot of errors/dependencies at me, but 450 worked (second latest as of writing).

And restarted... dozens of keyring requests are gone, now just 1 (back to how it was originally).

Maybe not a true solution, since I am compromising by rolling back to an older driver version, hopefully this still works when the 460 drivers are fixed on 20.10.

Larry Cai
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