Windows 10 OSError: [WinError 1783] The stub received bad data.

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Description

I was just playing with PinPal in a venv and received an error.

I set up one PinPal secret with pinpal new and ran pinpal a couple of times to try it - I got prompted as expected. I set up a second PinPal secret, ran PinPal and got prompted for them both as expected.

I logged off for a while, then some hours later logged back on for another reminder. On running pinpal I got a prompt for the first secret which was accepted. I got a prompt for the second secret and after I entered it, the following exception occurred (and keeps occurring:)

Error Log

pinpal


testme (reminder: octane utilisation):
yay
2 correct entries to go before leveling up


woody (reminder: protection mitochondrial):
yay
3 correct entries to go before leveling up
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Craig\python_projects\play\venv\Lib\site-packages\win32ctypes\pywin32\pywintypes.py", line 33, in pywin32error
    yield
  File "C:\Users\Craig\python_projects\play\venv\Lib\site-packages\win32ctypes\pywin32\win32cred.py", line 35, in CredWrite
    _authentication._CredWrite(c_pcreds, 0)
  File "C:\Users\Craig\python_projects\play\venv\Lib\site-packages\win32ctypes\core\ctypes\_util.py", line 61, in check_false
    raise make_error(function, function_name)
OSError: [WinError 1783] The stub received bad data.

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<frozen runpy>", line 198, in _run_module_as_main
  File "<frozen runpy>", line 88, in _run_code
  File "C:\Users\Craig\python_projects\play\venv\Scripts\pinpal.exe\__main__.py", line 7, in <module>
  File "C:\Users\Craig\python_projects\play\venv\Lib\site-packages\pinpal.py", line 645, in main
    app.save()
  File "C:\Users\Craig\python_projects\play\venv\Lib\site-packages\pinpal.py", line 590, in save
    set_password(
  File "C:\Users\Craig\python_projects\play\venv\Lib\site-packages\keyring\core.py", line 61, in set_password
    get_keyring().set_password(service_name, username, password)
  File "C:\Users\Craig\python_projects\play\venv\Lib\site-packages\keyring\backends\Windows.py", line 128, in set_password
    self._set_password(service, username, str(password))
  File "C:\Users\Craig\python_projects\play\venv\Lib\site-packages\keyring\backends\Windows.py", line 139, in _set_password
    win32cred.CredWrite(credential, 0)
  File "C:\Users\Craig\python_projects\play\venv\Lib\site-packages\win32ctypes\pywin32\win32cred.py", line 34, in CredWrite
    with _pywin32error():
  File "C:\Users\Craig\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\contextlib.py", line 155, in __exit__
    self.gen.throw(typ, value, traceback)
  File "C:\Users\Craig\python_projects\play\venv\Lib\site-packages\win32ctypes\pywin32\pywintypes.py", line 37, in pywin32error
    raise error(exception.winerror, exception.function, exception.strerror)
win32ctypes.pywin32.pywintypes.error: (1783, 'CredWrite', 'The stub received bad data.')

Environment

• Windows 10
• Python3.11.5 in a venv
• Top level Packages in the environment:

python -m pip list --not-required
Package        Version
-------------- ---------
beautifulsoup4 4.11.2
pinpal         2023.4.22
pip-tools      7.3.0
shellingham    1.5.4
streamlit      1.28.1
typer          0.9.0

Thankyou for taking the time to write this utility. If you need any more info please let me know.