bug#36109: GNU Privacy Assistant

bug#36109: GNU Privacy Assistant

[Raghav Gururajan]

Hello Guix!

GPA gives out the following errors upon opening the app.

**START**

First:

The GPGME library returned an unexpected
error at confdialog.c:1459. The error was:

Unsupported protocol

This is either an installation problem or a bug in GPA.
GPA will now try to recover from this error.
 
Second:

Fatal Error in GPGME library
(invoked from file options.c, line 302):

Unsupported protocol

The application will be terminated.

**END**

It appears that GPA will be non-usable until the bug is fixed. ☹

Regards,
RG.

bug#36109: GNU Privacy Assistant

[Efraim Flashner]

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I've bumped the version to 0.10.0. Can you give it a try and see if
it's still a problem?

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Efraim Flashner   <efraim@flashner.co.il>   אפרים פלשנר
GPG key = A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D  14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351
Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted

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bug#36109: GNU Privacy Assistant

[Raghav Gururajan]

> 	Error verifying signature: Failed to execute gpg.
> I've bumped the version to 0.10.0. Can you give it a try and see if
> it's still a problem?

Thanks for updating. Unfortunately, it is showing the same errors. 😕

Regards,
RG.

bug#36109: GNU Privacy Assistant

[Raghav Gururajan]

Apart from the errors showed on the GUI, running gpa via terminal shows
following additional error messages:

** Message: 23:11:17.193: tool to start the agent is not available
** Message: 23:11:20.515: error connecting an UI server: Invalid value
passed to IPC - assuming not running

Regards,
RG.

bug#36109: GNU Privacy Assistant

[Efraim Flashner]

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On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 11:14:07PM -0400, Raghav Gururajan wrote:
> Apart from the errors showed on the GUI, running gpa via terminal shows
> following additional error messages:
> 
> ** Message: 23:11:17.193: tool to start the agent is not available
> ** Message: 23:11:20.515: error connecting an UI server: Invalid value
> passed to IPC - assuming not running
> 
I tried running: './pre-inst-env guix environment --pure --ad-hoc gpa -- gpa'

console message of:
** Message: 11:38:44.814: tool to start the agent is not available

pop-up message of:
The GPGME library returned an unexpected
error at confdialog.c:1472. The error was:

Unsupported protocol

This is either an installation problem or a bug in GPA.
GPA will now try to recover from this error.

This was followed by another message:
Fatal Error in GPGME library
(invoked from file options.c, line 302):

Unsupported protocol

The application will be terminated

and from the console:
** Message: 11:40:37.432: error connecting an UI server: Invalid value passed to IPC - assuming not running

and then it exited on me.

so it looks like it might be missing something, but if GPA or GMGME is
missing something remains to be seen.

-- 
Efraim Flashner   <efraim@flashner.co.il>   אפרים פלשנר
GPG key = A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D  14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351
Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted

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bug#36109: GNU Privacy Assistant

[Efraim Flashner]

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On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 11:43:30AM +0300, Efraim Flashner wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 11:14:07PM -0400, Raghav Gururajan wrote:
> > Apart from the errors showed on the GUI, running gpa via terminal shows
> > following additional error messages:
> > 
> > ** Message: 23:11:17.193: tool to start the agent is not available
> > ** Message: 23:11:20.515: error connecting an UI server: Invalid value
> > passed to IPC - assuming not running
> > 
> I tried running: './pre-inst-env guix environment --pure --ad-hoc gpa -- gpa'
> 
> console message of:
> ** Message: 11:38:44.814: tool to start the agent is not available
> 
> pop-up message of:
> The GPGME library returned an unexpected
> error at confdialog.c:1472. The error was:
> 
> Unsupported protocol
> 
> This is either an installation problem or a bug in GPA.
> GPA will now try to recover from this error.
> 
> This was followed by another message:
> Fatal Error in GPGME library
> (invoked from file options.c, line 302):
> 
> Unsupported protocol
> 
> The application will be terminated
> 
> and from the console:
> ** Message: 11:40:37.432: error connecting an UI server: Invalid value passed to IPC - assuming not running
> 
> and then it exited on me.
> 
> so it looks like it might be missing something, but if GPA or GMGME is
> missing something remains to be seen.
> 

The two lines referenced above reference gpgme, and
'guix gc -R $(guix build gpa) | grep gpgme' does show that gpa does
reference gpgme. However, 'guix gc -R $(guix build gpa) | grep gnupg'
doesn't show anything, so it seems that this might be where the problem
is.
'./pre-inst-env guix environment --pure --ad-hoc gnupg gpa -- gpa' does
allow gpa to start without any errors.


While persuing this bug I noticed that gpa looks for gpg2keys_ldap,
which may have been depreciated in favor of dirmngr_ldap. I don't
(knowingly) fetch keys over ldap so I don't know if the fix I made
actually does anything. With it 'guix gc -R ...' does reference gnupg,
but it doesn't on its own cause the program to suddenly work without
having gnupg explicitly installed.

It seems that many distros separate the dirmngr binary which is required
for GPA to work from the gnupg binary, but if that's the case then it
should still find dirmngr with my patch and work for some things


On the other hand 'guix gc -R $(guix build gpgme) | grep gnupg' doesn't
yield any results, so there could be a problem there too.


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Efraim Flashner   <efraim@flashner.co.il>   אפרים פלשנר
GPG key = A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D  14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351
Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted

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bug#36109: GNU Privacy Assistant

[Raghav Gururajan]

Efraim. thank you for working on this. I will guix pull and update gpa
to check whether your recent patch works.

Regards,
RG.

bug#36109: GNU Privacy Assistant

[Raghav Gururajan]

I tried and checked after updating gpa. I get the same errors.