Poetry: Failed to unlock the collection

Question

On a fresh poetry install, I get the following error trying to install anything:

(base) ➜  celeba poetry add numpy       
Failed to unlock the collection!

How can I fix this?

Answer 1

There is an extensive discussion and various workarounds suggested in poetry issue #1719. Probably the fastest way to make this work is to run the following before you run poetry:

export PYTHON_KEYRING_BACKEND=keyring.backends.null.Keyring