SVN and GNOME Keyring

Question

How to fix the following issue:

    $ svn update
    Password for 'default' GNOME keyring: 
    svn: GNOME Keyring is locked and we are non-interactive

I have googled around but can't seem to find a satisfactory answer.

score 32 · Answer 1 · edited Dec 01 '14 at 16:35

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Edit the ~/.subversion/config with gedit or nano , and add the following

[auth] 
password-stores =

then save and try again. All the best.

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edited Dec 01 '14 at 16:35

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answered Oct 26 '12 at 06:51

Raja G

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score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 03 '14 at 17:19

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run the below command:

seahorse

and then delete all items in the menu. The problem wil be gone

answered Jan 03 '14 at 17:19

Bill Zhao

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Stefan · Answer 3 · 2016-01-27T17:21:05.097

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Solution 1

In my case the problem persisted until I deleted the default keyring. Using Mate Linux you can use this command to delete the default key file:

rm ~/.config/mate/keyrings/default

That solved the problem for me...

edited Jan 27 '16 at 17:21

answered Jul 28 '13 at 09:13

Stefan

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score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 02 '13 at 18:45

None of the solutions googled (removing keyrings from ~/.gnome2, blanking password-stores from ~/.subversion/config, ...) worked for me. I had to unset environment variables GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL GNOME_KEYRING_PID in my startup files (~/.xsession or whatever) in order to prevent their values being inherited from the desktop/login environment.

SVN and GNOME Keyring

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Solution 1