Keyring error when signing into Firefox Sync

Newly installed Fedora instance, attempted to sign into Firefox Sync screen was locked by pop-up system notice of a change made to the login keyring. Using the administrator and user passwords did not work and the window could not be closed. The system became unusable after attempting to sign into Firefox Sync.

Why would signing into a browser have anything to do with the system keyring or login details?

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You can add several (web) logins to the Login Key ring. This means, when stored, you just have to type once the Key ring PW while log in and every time you open a new browser, this login is stored and you released it to use when logged in to your system.

The Command to manage your Keyrings is named “Password & Keys”

In the app mentioned above, click on Login to unlock the key. Then you have the chance to set a new Password for it.

The solution I found was annoying and should not work. I used the new dnf package manager to install the Seahorse graphical keyring utility and I opened it and I just… deleted the login keyring.

It kept asking me for the old password to change its password; wouldn’t accept the sudo password or my account password and the solution was just to get rid of it. Why would I be able to do that? When I checked the properties of the Login keyring from the utility it said the date of creation was unknown. After I deleted the default Login keyring folder and restarted my system a new folder was created that actually had a date of creation. I’m able to log into this new Login Keyring Folder with my password for the system. This seems to have resolved my issue and I have no idea why.

Now I have a different question. Why did that work? Why is there a default login keyring folder that doesn’t contain anything, can’t be opened with any password and seems to muck things up? I just installed a new version of Fedora from a thumb drive and it came with that. What if people wanted to log into different things and not be confounded right from the get-go?