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mrtew · Mar 5, 2003, 10:23 PM

I did a search and found others that have gotten locked out of their own keychains, but there were no really good solutions offered there. I tried Disk Warrior and the KeyChaiin First Aid app from Apple, and I even tried deleting my old keychain with the Keychain app and with the finder and creating a new one, but that one won't work either. I deleted the keychain prefs to no avail. I couldn't get it to accept my password at all, and now that I've deleted my old keychain, I can't get it to create a new one. Please..... someone; tell me how to get this computer straightened out!

mrtew · Mar 6, 2003, 06:12 AM

Please?

car1son · Mar 6, 2003, 09:06 AM

You could try running Repair Disk Permissions from the First Aid tab of Disk Utility. I don't know if Disk Warrior does that sort of thing or not. Obviously there is something amiss with your installation. (What kind of error do you get wehn trying to create a new Keychain?)

mrtew · Mar 6, 2003, 04:02 PM

Originally posted by car1son:
You could try running Repair Disk Permissions from the First Aid tab of Disk Utility. I don't know if Disk Warrior does that sort of thing or not. Obviously there is something amiss with your installation. (What kind of error do you get wehn trying to create a new Keychain?)

Thanks for the suggestion! I tried the permissions repair and Norton Disc doctor today too and it still won't accept my password. When trying to create a new keychain it doesn't give me an error message at all... there just isn't one there afterwards. Still frustrated and hoping for the answer!

mrtew · Mar 6, 2003, 09:06 PM

Well, turns out that problem was an error in the Carbon Copy Cloning I did to get my system back on my computer after it came back from repair. I never had any problem before, but I got an error that a system log wasn't cloned because it was too large and I pushed the button to ignore the error rather than to stop the cloning. Everything else seemed fine except for the keychain, but once I remembered the error I recloned from my backup and everything is fine now. No one else will probably ever see this glitch but I thought I'd better post a followup in case anyone ever does.

madra · Aug 21, 2003, 05:19 AM

i've just developed exactly the same problem. but in my case it seems to be the result of a kernel panic while burning a CD with toast 5,2. i got locked out of my original keychain [ie. the proper password wouldn't work] and had to delete it.

now whenever i try to create the new keychain, it acts like it has done so, but no keychain is created. keychainfirstaid reports that it was unable to repair the keychain. after reading a few postings here, i also tried deleting keychain's prefs but no luck there either.

i've also tried repairing permissions. any other ideas?

DesignerTerp · Sep 10, 2003, 08:57 PM

Originally posted by madra:
i've just developed exactly the same problem. but in my case it seems to be the result of a kernel panic while burning a CD with toast 5,2. i got locked out of my original keychain [ie. the proper password wouldn't work] and had to delete it.

now whenever i try to create the new keychain, it acts like it has done so, but no keychain is created. keychainfirstaid reports that it was unable to repair the keychain. after reading a few postings here, i also tried deleting keychain's prefs but no luck there either.

i've also tried repairing permissions. any other ideas?

This is EXACTLY what is happening to me now! Help! What can I do to fix this? I ran Keychain First Aid and it is unable to repair.

madra · Sep 19, 2003, 06:18 AM

well, i'm afraid i can't be the bearer of any good tidings. further to my keychain developing the abovementioned problem, nothing i tried worked and eventually i had to bite the bullet and do a full re-install of the system. methinks this drastic course of action is needed far too often when things go wrong with OSX.