Comment 34 for bug 686690

We've started ignoring unencrypted-credentials-on-disk because we want people to get a single new desktop-wide credential. We made the keyring change at the same time so as not to create another discontinuity later.

"it could at least use the GNOME keyring instead of the prompting on the command line."

You should only get the command line prompt if neither the GNOME keyring nor the KDE Wallet is active. (This is controlled by python-keyring.) What does your environment look like?

Benji, do you know why this might happen?

"Just catch the gnomekeyring.IOError and assume it means there is no keyring"

Assuming this is the right thing to do, it would have to be done inside the keyring module, which is why I speculated that we might treat this as a bug in python-keyring. Fortunately there's an easy workaround, so I'm not worried about it.