Next, I tested my assumptions by repeating the process and entering an intentionally-bad password. I repeated the process a couple of times, with the same result. However, nothing else happened-the password I need did not appear in the info page. Keychain Access accepted the password-there was none of the jittering that occurs when an incorrect password is entered, and the dialog closed. I believe the password is my local system login, since I haven't changed it.
Please enter the keychain password." dialog popped up, and I entered the keychain password. As expected, the "Keychain Access wants to use the login keychain. Keychain Access won't show login keychain passwords I need to retrieve a password for a Pages document on my M1 iMac, so I opened Keychain Access, selected the 'login' keychain, found the document in the 'Passwords' list, double-clicked it to open its info page, and clicked the 'Show password' checkbox. It does not matter whether I enter the keychain password or click cancel, the messages keep popping up and I lose the ability to do anything with my computer.Īs you can tell, this is extremely frustrating.Īs a short-term solution, I have signed out of iCloud on my iMac, to see if that fixes the issue. ICloudNotificationAgent wants to use the login keychain. Spotlight wants to use the login keychain.ĬallHistorySyncHelper wants to use the login keychain.Ĭom.apple.iCloudHelper wants to use the login keychain.Īccountsd wants to use the login keychain.Īssistantd wants to use the login keychain. They cycle through as follows:ĬommCenter wants to use the login keychain.Ĭallservicesd wants to use the login keychain. I get a series of pop-up messages which ask me to enter in the login keychain password.
I have to shut down and restart using the hardware power button as there is no other fix. I have a recurring issue which leads to my fans running at maximum speed and makes my computer totally unusable. I am using an iMac operating Big Sur v11.6.2.
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