seahorse-plugins

Seahorse-agent writes an empty ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf on first run, breaking email signing in KDE

Bug #345727 reported by Mackenzie Morgan on 2009-03-20

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	seahorse-plugins	Confirmed	Medium	gnome-bugs #585535
	seahorse-plugins (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Medium	Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: seahorse-plugins

When gpg is first run, it's supposed to copy /usr/share/gnupg/options.skel into ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf however seahorse-agent is part of the default ubuntu-desktop session. Seahorse-agent writes an empty file there on its first run. This means "use-agent" isn't in there. If the user then installs kubuntu-desktop, seahorse-agent will still run instead of gpg-agent.

Net effect, if the following sequence of events occurs:
1. User installs Ubuntu
2. User logs into a GNOME session in Ubuntu
3. User installs kubuntu-desktop
4. User logs into KDE and uses KMail

The result is:
seahorse-agent (which is not compatible with KMail) runs instead of gpg-agent (which is compatible)
KMail hangs when told to sign an email, finally throwing an error saying it couldn't get the passphrase

This is fixed by having use-agent in ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf...in other words, by having the skeleton file there instead of an empty file. If this is the case, seahorse-agent still runs in GNOME but gpg-agent runs in KDE, allowing KMail to function properly.

See original description

Related branches

lp://staging/~maco.m/seahorse-plugins/gpgconf-change

lp://staging/ubuntu/karmic/seahorse-plugins

Mackenzie Morgan (maco.m) on 2009-03-20

Changed in seahorse-plugins (Ubuntu):
assignee:	nobody → maco.m
importance:	Undecided → Medium
status:	New → In Progress
description:	updated

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Mackenzie Morgan (maco.m) wrote on 2009-03-20:

debdiff Edit (1.8 KiB, text/plain)

Mackenzie Morgan (maco.m) on 2009-03-20

Changed in seahorse-plugins (Ubuntu):
status:	In Progress → Fix Committed

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2009-03-20:

This bug was fixed in the package seahorse-plugins - 2.26.0-0ubuntu2

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seahorse-plugins (2.26.0-0ubuntu2) jaunty; urgency=low

  * libseahorse/seahorse-gpg-options.c:
    - Copy gpg.conf skel instead of creating blank file
    (LP: #345727)

-- Mackenzie Morgan <email address hidden> Fri, 20 Mar 2009 02:58:29 -0400

Changed in seahorse-plugins:
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released

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Adam Schreiber (sadam) wrote on 2009-04-03:

Stuff like this should get pushed upstream.

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Mackenzie Morgan (maco.m) wrote on 2009-04-03: Re: [Bug 345727] Re: Seahorse-agent writes an empty ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf on first run, breaking email signing in KDE

OK. I wasn't sure if the skeleton conf file is in the same place on all systems
or if this was Ubuntu-specific, and if it was Ubuntu-specific, then the
hardcoded file path would need to be not-hardcoded. Are you saying it's ok as-
is, Adam?

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Michael Casadevall (mcasadevall) wrote on 2009-05-24:

Talked with maco and dtchen at UDS. Seems this regressed with last upload to jaunty (and appears to also be the case in karmic). Reopening and reassigning to myself.

Changed in seahorse-plugins (Ubuntu):
assignee:	Mackenzie Morgan (maco.m) → Michael Casadevall (mcasadevall)
status:	Fix Released → Triaged

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2009-06-11:

Could you open an upstream bug about that?

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2009-06-11:

the reason why the change is not applied in the current version is that somebody changed the diff.gz rather than using the debian directory and since the GNOME components have only their debian directory in bzr and no change out of the debian directory usually that change has been cleaned on the next version upload, next time do things correctly

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Andreas Moog (ampelbein) wrote on 2009-06-12:

The changelog entry is misleading, it should mention the patch written, not the file patched. Nonetheless, this works correctly in karmic:

andreas@apophis:~$ mv .gnupg/gpg.conf .
andreas@apophis:~$ seahorse-agent
** Message: Another GPG agent already running

andreas@apophis:~$ cat .gnupg/gpg.conf
# These first three lines are not copied to the gpg.conf file in
# the users home directory.
# $Id: options.skel 4717 2008-03-25 14:47:48Z wk $
# Options for GnuPG
# Copyright 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
#
# This file is free software; as a special exception the author gives
[...]

Changed in seahorse-plugins (Ubuntu):
assignee:	Michael Casadevall (mcasadevall) → Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs)
status:	Triaged → Fix Released