When doing `svn commit`, I was asked for a gnome keyring password, but nothing I did worked. I *think* an upgrade of my OS (ubuntu 8.08 -> 10.04) lead to an upgraded subversion and that lead to the problem. Details are reported here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1561623 The solution which worked for me is found here: http://subversion.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=1065&dsMessageId=2402527 HTH anybody on this list experiencing similar problems. -Larry