Finger Print Scanner Keyring Didn't Unlock

I have Zorin OS 18 Pro on a Dell 14 Inch 2 in 1 with a finger print scanner. I enabled the finger print scanner via the terminal (sudo pam-auth-update) and registered my fingerprint. I can log in via my finger print, but when it logs in it gives me 2 prompts to input my password. Both prompts say the "keyring" failed to unlock. If I get prompted in terminal, my finger print works without issue.

I love the OS, and not having bio-metrics isn't a deal breaker, but I would love to have it. Has anyone dealt with this?

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Could You post a Screenshot of the Prompts. It could be a Brave/Chromuim Borwser Thing. Normal when You log in with a Password this unlocks the Keyrings, too. But when You use Auto Login this can't happen and You get a seerate Window to unlock.

When it is in Your Case the same, maybe it isn't possible to unlock them with Fingerprint.

I second the issue. I have a Framework 13 and I freshly installed Zorin OS 18 Pro. I activated the fingerprint directly in settings => System => Users => Fingerprint login.

Since then, whenever I log in with the fingerprint, I got 2 Pop-Up that ask my password to unlock the keyring. It correspond to 2 different keyring:
Seahorse and gnome keyring.

If I log in with my password instead, both keyring are automatically unlocked. The behavior is only when I open the session with the fingerprint.

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