The dreaded Gnome Keyring problem
 

Hi all,

I have in the past had the problem "Gnome keyring is not responding" when trying to shutdown the computer, it has not plagued me for a while (thankfully) but I have recently installed Mint 18.3 on a friends computer & it has surfaced on their computer.

Now I believe the answer for me was to disable auto login which used to be as simple as going to settings & Login, however this option appears to have been removed.

So the question is how do I now disable auto login or is there now a fix for this problem other than that.

Thanks for looking.

in gnome-control-center there is that option.

Auto login is currently set/unset in Mint through a configuration file if you're using the lightdm display manager (which controls the login process).

To disable auto login, sudo xed the file /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf and put a # sign before any lines starting with "autologin" to comment them out. Save the file and reboot.

Thanks for both replies.
Where / how do I find Gnome control centre.

Regards editing files this isn't something iv'e ever tried & I'm not sure how to go about it. Do I have to type /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf into a terminal or do I have to find the folder & open it & simply alter what's in it?

Regards.....

I found the folder /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf & opened it & all it's got in it is
[SeatDefaults]
user-session=cinnamon

Mint doesn't use Gnome Control Centre.

I'll walk you through the edit. Before we do the actual editing though, please enter the following command in the terminal and paste the output here so that we can see what's in the config file:

Edit: I see that you posted while I was formulating this response. Please ignore this post.

Thanks. In that case you might not actually be using lightdm. Can you please paste the output from the following command:

Output is /usr/sbin/lightdm

That indicates that your system doesn't have auto login enabled. Are you sure that the system doesn't ask for a password when it boots up?

Ahh, I'm in the stupid club, please forgive me. That's the output from my system, it's my friends that has the problem, which I don't have access too right now.

My friend is not local but I can email them & get the output from their computer & post it here, however it could be a few days

No problem. If, on entering the previous command, you find that your friend's system has lightdm too (which it should have if it was a fresh install of Mint 18.3), then the command to edit the config file is:

First of all, try commenting out (put a # at the start of the line) the line that reads:

where username is the username of your friend. Then save the file and reboot.

If that doesn't work, try commenting out all the lines starting "autologin".

If you're supporting your friend's computer, you should think about setting up remote access to it using software such as TeamViewer or equivalent. That will allow you to support them more easily in the future.

Great advice, thank you so much. I will post back soon. Thanks again

Hi Hydrurga,

My friend has paosted the following output from terminal

cat: /etc/X11/default-display-managercat: No such file or directory
cat: /: Is a directory