Keychain Cannot Be Found

I am part way through moving my accounts from MobileMe to iCloud. They are all set up on one of my Macs. On the other Mac I am getting told that "Keychain cannot be found for XXXXXXX"
What's going on here?

Modification to my original post.
Message actually reads: "A keychain cannot be found to store XXXXXX"
Alert box suggests Reset To Defaults, which then warns that this action will delete all saved passwords, keys and certificates. Not a good idea.
How do I get out of this hole?

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Got a rather complex one here which I'm reasonably sure is specifically just a 10.10 Yosemite bug in itself but here's some background, hopefully someone else can replicate it and offer an explanation.
I work at a school and we have WPA2 enterprise wireless utilising certificates and TLS authentication, where as part of TLS we provide a username which matches the certificate name.
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However the above exact same mobileconfig file works fine on every OSX we have except for 10.10 Yosemite.
We have also tried deploying this same profile on multiple devices running 10.10 Yosemite and they all have the exact same error.
The fact that the profile starts working before you respond to the error indicates to me that this is a false error or a bug within 10.10 Yosemite itself, especially given when you try to do the reset it's indicating you should do, you cant even enter any text and pressing ok just closes it off completely.
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And that finally worked. It's only been a few hours, but I can log off, I can reboot, the computer can sleep, and I can turn the WiFi on and off manually - and it auto-logs back in.
I wonder if I'm reporting this too early. So far, so good.
Summary: I did all the usual stuff, outlined above, suggested in multiple other threads (e.g. 10.9 Mavericks and keychain issues), except that I didn't make any new keychains, but then:
in Keychain, right-clicked the System keychain and unlocked it;
deleted just my Wifi user-password key in the System keychain.
Hey presto! YMMV!
Hope this helps somebody.
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As Eric Root suggested, I'm replying to myself. Several days have passed and my repairs are holding. Here's a partial and edited "re-post":
I found that my System keychain was locked. All of the Preferences selections were "unlocked", and the other keychains (login, local, and System Roots) were unlocked.
How it got locked I don't know. I did what I often advise but equally often forget: right-clicked the System keychain. There's an option of unlock it (or to lock it if it's already unlocked).
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Somewhere in there of course I rebooted (and rebooted), whether necessary or not.
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Summary: I did all the usual stuff, outlined above, suggested in multiple other threads (e.g. 10.9 Mavericks and keychain issues), except that I didn't make any new keychains, but then:
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Charles

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