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Hello,
I see another keychain question ongoing but did not want to pile on with my similar but seemingly more devastating question. I have a Mac Book Air that I have been using for only a few weeks. This morning it suddenly started asking for all kinds of passwords related to keychain. The login password did not work and the system was/is increasingly unstable to the point where I cannot even login now. I get prompted with "OSX wants to use the "Local Items" keychain, which appears as I am trying to type my login password.
Prior to this any attempt to verify showed that there was no password for Local Items and attempts to repair all failed.
I am really stuck here and looking for advice as to how to get back into operation. I have time machine but have not backed up yet as I am not even on month into using the machine. In that context if the best solution is a complete reinstall it will be a pain but not end of the world.
I thought it would be better to ask first as I am hoping there is a way to recover without that extra overhead.
Thanks
Scott

So my last act prior to leaving for the evening was to try to do a repair from within the KeyChain utility. I watched it "beach ball" for 5 min or more before leaving assuming that it was going to result in nothing helpful.   When I came back 4 hours later some task had completed and I was being asked to reset a password - the local one I believe.
It would not take the same password but did eventually take a modified one.   The windows that were constantly popping up asking for different permissions to use "key chain" then stopped reappearing and by outward appearances I am close to normal.   My icloud account does not want to authenticate however and every action that has anything to do with accessing an account of any kind on machine is taking a ridiculous amount of time.
I have written this whole message on my Mac in the time that it is taking icloud to sign out.
So something is clearly not right still. The repair function for KeyChain runs quickly again and reports nothing amis, however this is not the same machine it was this AM.   My next step will be to delete anything to do with keychain stored information ( any tips?) and start over. Failing that I will be reinstalling the OS using a clean install.
Thanks for all the help so far.

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