Mavericks Keychain keeps asking to unlock "Local Items" after install

Today I Updated my iMac from Mountain Lion to Mavericks.
After Installing the first boot went smooth but the mac after booting asked me to reboot again.
On the second Restart when the login window appeared also apeared a Password input window asking me to enter the password for several "LOCAL ITEMS" in the keychain but when I type my administrator password it won't work.
I hit the ESC key and the window appears several times asking for different password for several items that need access to "Local Items" in the keychain.
I tried opening the KeyChain and running the KeyChain firstaid but it didn't work.
Any help is greatly appreciated.

Your login.keychain password is out of sync with the new iCloud keychain and needs to be re-sync'd.
The new iCloud keychain is either called "Local items" if you don't have syncing enabled or "iCloud" if you enabled iCloud keychain sync.
Open 'Keychain Access' Application
Select the 'login' keychain from the keychains list
Click the lock at the top to lock the login keychain
Click the lock again to unlock the login keychain
After entering your login keychain password you should be presented with a dialog:
Clicking the reset button will re-sync your login.keychain password with the iCloud keychain password.
If everything from the above fails for whatever reason the last resort you can do the following:
Open terminal
cd ~/Library/Keychains
ls  
When you 'ls' here you will see a folder that contains a bunch of random number liks so:
94ED610F-DD96-4ECF-A2BC-7D2F8651A464  (this number is unique on each system)
rm -rf 94ED610F-DD96-4ECF-A2BC-7D2F8651A464
Reboot
<when you log back in everything should be back to normal>

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