I see posts on this from 12 yrs ago!
Found a solution that worked,but after re-install couldn't remember where I'd found it. It involved a small code entry in Terminal and it worked. I didn't write it down and have spent the last 3 days on the net trying to find it again to no avail.
Can anybody help?!

try Every time gnome-keyring upgrades it will put the directory back, so you have to keep deleting it.

Hello and thanks for the reply ( the only one ! ). Tried that - didn't work. I probably did something wrong ; but for the moment it's only of academic interest since in the meantime I found a tool (BootRepair) which let me uncorrupt my previous Mint 17.3 disk. I now know the meaning of true happiness! But, on the Keyring subject, given the staggering amount of repetitions of the same problem over the last 12 years,it beggars belief that it still continues. The developers cannot be unaware of it, and the simple fix would be to have the choice of whether or not to implement the Gnome Keyring, with the default being "Off".
Anyway, thanks again for your response to my squeal!

JC

I loathe keyrings and think that they are fundamentally flawed, in that they tie you to a particular desktop environment (or, at least, to having that desktop environment installed--but maybe that's the point--hmmmm). I just ignore them and use keepassx.

If they try to nag me, I click to make them go away.

Well Frank, you're not alone in your loathing! Unbelievable the number of posts on this over the years; and yet it still persists. And as for clicking it away, that gets old real fast!
And my recent experience installing to Cinnamon 18.3 (which I've now ditched for that and other reasons) tells me I'd better get moving to re-find the solution I used for this version in case the damn thing re-appears.
Thanks for the reply>

JC

I do understand the reasoning behind keyrings. They are an attempt to address a very real problem.

I think they are a really bad solution for that very real problem. When a "solution" is more annoying than the problem, it's not a solution. It's a fail.

Just my two cents.

i think the people who really care simply stop using gnome-based (as cinnamon is) desktop environments, or in fact any prefabricated desktop environment, and thus rid themselves of it.

tbh, i think most of these posts you mention are about ex-windows users that are disgrunteled at having to enter any passwords at all.
annoyed at having any security at all.

but, i can only join the choir:
get rid of it and search for alternative solutions.
it requires web searches, fiddling, uninstalling stuff (probably the empty cinnamon metapackage).
but it is possible.

Depends what you want. I'm now in my seventies,live alone in a house that's now far too big and the last thing I need is for my semi-recreational computer use to become yet another straw on this camel's back. I run Linux Mint and Win 8.1 on this machine, but I prefer Linux because it's "leaner and meaner" and less likely to be targeted by the digital low-life. When I switch over to Windows I can hear almost immediately the increase in fan speed, reflecting the increased load on the machine. But Windows has its good points too! There is nothing dogmatic in my choice of operating systems. I just need something that will do what I need efficiently.
I am neither a Linux nor a Windows supporter!

JC

Agreed, keyring can be a major pain sometimes. I'd been a Windows xp user for a very long time, so much so that Windows 10 became alien. I figured at that point if I had to learn a new OS it may as well be Linux. Keyring is something I'd like better control over, but I tolerate it.

Same machine new Linux (Mint 19.3) and back to the same old keyring!!! Tried the last fix and it still doesn't work (of course).
Just hoping maybe someone's found a solution in the interim. Gosh! is it two years?!!!!........

I,m posting this here because I can't find anywhere else to start a new post,(although it must exist, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to have made my first post all these years ago)! I am now approaching 80 and perhaps my brainpower is declining! Anyway, about the damn keyring, it is still there and now I just grit my gums and type in the password.
Not exactly a solution but it lets me operate.
I'm now on Mint 20.3 / Win 10 dual-boot setup and all was running smoothly until recently I tried a VPN program that I didn't like and wanted to remove. Win 10 no prob. Linux Mint ...Hmmm.... Tried here, Linux.org, Linustechtips.......searched for "How to remove a program from Mint 20.3" and ALL gave the really helpful response "nothing found"!
Crikey! Do you have a sister app called "Linux Answers" perhaps? I know I'm getting a bit feeble, but this seems to me to be very simple. Or is Linux really only for the intellectually gifted?

Wow! You're even older than I am. Not by much though .
Just use the apt command as root:

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Hazel you just made my day!! So simple. I still have to ask myself why all three of these obviously very erudite Linux sources couldn't do what you just did. I suppose its just got to be a shortcoming on my part.
I don't suppose, while you're at it, you could point me to how to start an original post? My marbles may be receding but there's nothing wrong with my eyesight nor yet my persistence, and I looked long and hard but still came up with nothing. Thanks in advance. JC

Go to the (sub-)forum of interest, and have a look under the LQ banner(s) - just above the thread list.

Tnx for that. I can begin the re-education process! OK on backups - that's my religion!! JC