I can´t encrypt my journal about jrnl HOT 3 CLOSED

Hi @aisneto, thanks for filing this, and for all the detailed info.

I don't know what's going on exactly, but based on the lines in that debug log, it's probably a problem with one of these two things:

• The keyring library on your machine. Even when you first encrypt, jrnl checks to see if you have a saved password for that journal name. Maybe there's some prompt that it's waiting for elsewhere in your environment. For instance, on some Mac configurations, I believe there's a prompt that pops up asking you to unlock your password manager, if you haven't already done so. That might make sense on a fresh machine. I don't see any current issues about it hanging unexpectedly. It sounds like you can disable the keyring for Python applications like jrnl by setting the environment variable PYTHON_KEYRING_BACKEND=keyring.backends.null.Keyring which might help narrow this issue down.
• A prompt from jrnl that's somehow being suppressed on your machine. Right after the keyring call, you should see a prompt that says: Enter password for journal 'default':. I'm not sure what would suppress this, though. We use rich's input method for this prompt and I don't see any current issues about it being suppressed or hanging. I'm pretty sure the message goes to STDERR, which you are clearly already able to view since that's where those debug messages came from.

Otherwise, I don't think it's a missing package. jrnl would crash with a ModuleNotFoundError instead of hanging if that happened.

It might help others running into this issue to know how you installed jrnl. Was it pipx, brew, or something else?

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Thank you very much for your response! I did not think of any issues regarding the keyring, assuming that the keyring integration would come after the encryption. As you pointed out, that was the actual problem.

I installed my jrnl.sh using pipx. To resolve the issue, I simply installed keyring through pipx as well (pipx install keyring), and now I can decrypt my journal normally. Thank you! I should have tried that sooner.

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You're welcome! I'm glad it worked out. Thanks for documenting your solution here.

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