Poetry: Failed to unlock the collection

Question

On a fresh poetry install, I get the following error trying to install anything:

(base) ➜  celeba poetry add numpy       
Failed to unlock the collection!

How can I fix this?

Seems to be something to do with "keyring"? Maybe try [this suggestion](https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/1917#issuecomment-1235998997) from python-poetry issues — Temba, Nov 14 '22 at 23:20

score 52 · Answer 1 · edited Feb 08 '23 at 04:44

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There is an extensive discussion and various workarounds suggested in poetry issue #1719. Probably the fastest way to make this work is to run the following before you run poetry:

export PYTHON_KEYRING_BACKEND=keyring.backends.null.Keyring

edited Feb 08 '23 at 04:44

Mateen Ulhaq

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answered Dec 20 '22 at 23:17

Fabian Ritzmann

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This problem is a real black-eye for the reputation of poetry. It's a great tool, but the fact that the maintainers simply will not fix this after years of complaints points to some real cultural problems within their team. – Leopd Aug 09 '23 at 04:40

score 2 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 21 '23 at 05:28

If you are remotely accessing your work environment via SSH, add this function to your .bashrc file and run it from the remote terminal:

# Linux unlock gnome keyring
function unlock-keyring ()
{
    read -rsp "Password: " pass
    export $(echo -n "$pass" | gnome-keyring-daemon --replace --unlock)
    unset pass
}

Source: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/602313/unlock-gnome-keyring-daemon-from-command-line

Poetry: Failed to unlock the collection

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