[SOLVED] What is "userhelper pam_unix(passwd:chauthtok): conversation failed" error?

tercel · 09-08-2022, 10:30 AM

I saw this error in journal :

Code:

userhelper	pam_unix(passwd:chauthtok): conversation failed

I searched internet with exact word, but nothing appears. Does anybody know how can I solve this error? Thanks.

Edit :

I remembered that, a program asked my password at that time "unlock your keyring". I cancel its request three times and dialog window closed. Is this two things related with each other? I am using Debian 11 Bullseye.

uteck · 09-08-2022, 11:09 AM

Need a few more lines from where you got that error to know what app caused it.

tercel · 09-08-2022, 05:25 PM

Hi uteck, I was using Chrome and when I close Chrome and open Opera web browser, suddenly "unlock your keyring" dialog opened. Then, I canceled it. Then I saw that line in the journal log.

I read that in https://askubuntu.com/questions/3178...ing-on-startup, Chrome uses "keyring" thing and this may be related with it. But the timing is reverse, dialog opened when I closed not opened chrome? Strange.

tercel · 09-09-2022, 04:12 AM

I found that "userhelper" is a program for changing password etc. I found its man page https://linux.die.net/man/8/userhelper. So it is related with Chrome and its keyring usage. When you say cancel when it asks password, it puts this error into log. That solves the issue.