Login keychain madness on M1 Big Sur

[mrbigstuff]

Just now, inexplicable, as I didn't download anything weird. The only thing popping up is Logitech downloader when I attempted to force quit. Everything is asking for a keychain login, dismissing those boxes didn't do anything.

A hard restart fixed it, but what was the issue?

[hal]

Why were you invoking force quit? I've never been a fan of Logitech drivers - that's where I'd be focusing my stinkeye.

When you say 'Everything is asking for a keychain login' - what do you mean by 'everything'?

[mrbigstuff]

hal wrote:
Why were you invoking force quit? I've never been a fan of Logitech drivers - that's where I'd be focusing my stinkeye.

When you say 'Everything is asking for a keychain login' - what do you mean by 'everything'?

spotlight kept popping up. honestly, can't recall what the others were besides that and Logitech, but there were a bunch.

[Tiangou]

Your keychain was probably locked when your Mac went to sleep and didn't unlock when you entered your password to wake it.

It's rare, but it happens.

A regular restart should have fixed it. Probably did not need to hard-reboot.

[mrbigstuff]

I tried to restart but force-quitting was not working and the top menu was not visible (couldn't get past the keychain login mess).

[Tiangou]

mrbigstuff wrote:
I tried to restart but force-quitting was not working and the top menu was not visible (couldn't get past the keychain login mess).

Yeah, I get it. The stack of windows is difficult to deal with.

For future reference, you can probably tap the Escape key rapidly a couple of dozen times to get rid of them for long enough to send the restart command from the Apple menu, or barring that use the Terminal to reboot with this command:

sudo shutdown -r now

[mrbigstuff]

just wrote that one down on paper. thanks.