Adobe AIR keeps the passwords and account information of your AIR application in what they call the Encrypted Local Storage or ELS. Well on Linux, this can sometimes get confused, corrupted, or just wonky if your Gnome Keyring is out of sync or has an issue. Luckely I was given the link to Troubleshooting AIR’s Encrypted Local Storage (ELS) on Linux from the AIR application screaming at me about this. I ran the check to see if the Daemon was running:
$ ps -aef | grep -i 'gnome.*keyring' 1000 3923 1 0 00:39 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon --daemonize --login 1000 8884 8869 0 09:05 pts/0 00:00:00 grep --colour=auto -i gnome.*keyring
Well, we can see that it is running, so skip on to step 3 of that guide and we’ll see:
As ELS is not accessible, all previously stored data in ELS cannot be retrieved anymore. To start using ELS again, we need to reset ELS, by deleting the following directory
So let’s give this a shot:
$ rm -rf ~/.appdata/Adobe/AIR/ELS
Sure enough, all my data was cleared from the ELS, but my AIR applications could start once again. WOOT!
