Finally sorted this out by (a) disabling pam_encfs and (b) updating the gnome-keyring manually before logging out. Would have been nice to have been told at the time that the password change had failed, rather than having gnome-keyring -daemon crash, thusly:
Sep 20 20:44:47 tigger passwd[5419]: pam_unix(passwd:chauthtok): password change d for luser Sep 20 20:44:47 tigger gnome-keyring-daemon[5438]: gp11_module_new: assertion `funcs' failed Sep 20 20:44:47 tigger gnome-keyring-daemon[5438]: **#012ERROR:gp11-module.c:191:lock_private: assertion failed: (GP11_IS_MODULE (obj)) Sep 20 20:44:50 tigger passwd[5440]: couldn't read data from gnome-keyring-daemon: unexpected end of data Sep 20 20:44:50 tigger passwd[5419]: gkr-pam: couldn't change password for the login keyring. Sep 20 20:45:45 tigger gnome-keyring-daemon[4977]: couldn't allocate secure memory to keep passwords and or keys from being written to the disk -jh -- Cannot change password in Maverick PPC https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/642895 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs