S/MIME signing fails on a SUSE 9.3 system

[Karsten Künne]

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.


Karsten.
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