S/MIME signing fails on a SUSE 9.3 system

[Karsten Künne]

On Thursday 02 June 2005 16:55, Karsten Künne wrote:
> On Thursday 02 June 2005 16:42, Karsten Künne wrote:
> > On Thursday 02 June 2005 06:08, Werner Koch wrote:
> > > On Tue, 31 May 2005 14:37:44 -0400, Karsten Künne said:
> > > > The gpg-agent is running and GPG_AGENT_INFO is set correctly. Does
> > > > anybody know what's going on here?
> > >
> > > It does not find pinentry for reasons I don't know.  The easiest
> > > workaround is to add a line like
> > >
> > > pinentry-program /usr/lib/pinentry/pinentry-gtk
> > >
> > > to gpg-agent.conf.  Replace gtk by qt or gtk2 according on your taste.
> > > Also try to run pinnetry using exactly the filename as given in that
> > > line.
> >
> > The pinentry is not the issue, I configured it in gpg-agent.conf and it
> > is found. I looked a bit deeper and apparently someone is talking garbage
> > to the gpg-agent program. Following is from the agent's debug log:
> >
> > ...
> >   5 - 2005-06-02 15:46:43 gpgsm[7635.0x807d230] DBG: <- OPTION
> > display=:0.0 5 - 2005-06-02 15:46:43 gpgsm[7635.0x807d230] DBG: <- OPTION
> > lc-ctype=en_US.UTF-8
> >   5 - 2005-06-02 15:46:43 gpgsm[7635.0x807d230] DBG: <- OPTION
> > lc-messages=en_US.UTF-8
> >
> > That are the options the agent supposedly gets. BUT, somebody is lying
> > here! Because this is what I can see if I strace the agent:
> >
> > 19760 read(0, "OPTION display=:0.0", 1002) = 19
> > 19760 read(0, "OPTION lc-ctype=en_US.UTF-8", 1002) = 27
> > 19760 read(0, "OPTION display=en_US.UTF-8", 1002) = 26
> >
> > So, the first and second option are correct but the third one is garbage.
> > The debug output says it's "lc-ctype=en_US.UTF8" but what the agent gets
> > is "display=en_US.UTF8" which is completely bogus. And as a result
> > pinentry fails to open the display. Now the question is where does that
> > bogus option come from? Is it kmail which is talking to gpg-agent
> > directly or is gpgme involved? I have no idea how the chain of command
> > works in kmail from KDE 3.4.1.
>
> Forget that last sentence, it's of course gpgsm which is screwing things up
> here. SUSE ships version 1.9.14. I'll have a look at it and see why it's
> talking garbage to the agent.
>
>

O.k., I keep following up to myself. Looks like gnupg-1.9.14 has a "brown 
paper bag" bug in common/asshelp.c ;-). It's fixed in 1.9.15, SUSE apparently 
shipped a broken version of gpg2 in 9.3.


Karsten.
-- 
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