SVN and GNOME Keyring

Question

How to fix the following issue:

    $ svn update
    Password for 'default' GNOME keyring: 
    svn: GNOME Keyring is locked and we are non-interactive

I have googled around but can't seem to find a satisfactory answer.

Answer 1

edit the ~/.subversion/config with gedit or nano , and add the following

[auth] 
  password-stores =

then save and try again . all the best .

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