MacMini update - after restart cannot log in anymore!!!!

I had my MacMini running unattended for a week or more and today when I returned to it I got a popup requesting me to restart in order to "update" something. So I allowed it to do this. Bad choice!!!
Now when I reach the logon screen and after I have entered my password, there are a circular succession of pop-ups like this:
"talagent wants to use the "Local Items" keychain.
Please enter the keychain password."
There are 6 different identifiers like talagent, for example CalendarAgent and AddreeBookSourceSync on successive dialog boxes.
I have tried re-entering my account login password and my AppleID password but these do not work. So I use the Cancel button instead and then the dialogs just cycle around incessantly. There is absolutely no way to get out of this as far as I can see....
I cannot even dissmiss the dialog and use some other item on the logon screen!
I have absolutely no idea what this keychain password could be and I have not been asked for it previously either, not even when I upgraded from Lion to Maverick back in November.
What is going on here?????
I have found other threads here about the keychain login proble , but they all refer to things happening while logged on, but in this case I am stopped entirely from even logging on! And my account on the MacMini is an admin account if that matters.

Boot in safe mode and try to log in to the account with the problem. Note: If FileVault is enabled, or if a firmware password is set, or if the boot volume is a software RAID, you can’t do this. Ask for further instructions.
If you can log in, see below.
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