Hi Tiziano-- thanks for following up here! I'm closing the bug report as you recommended, but i wanted to add a little more followup in case someone else reads this.
On Thu 2018-10-25 13:03:12 +0200, Tiziano Zito wrote:
> It has nothing to do with pinentry. Given that I have a system with almost
> identical setup without dbus-user-session where everything works, and given
> that
> installing dbus-user-session in the affected system fixed the issue, I
> started
> digging deeper.
I'm glad to hear that installing dbus-user-session fixed the issue. I'm
inclined to make dbus-user-session a hard Depends: of pinentry-gnome3
instead of a Recommends: to avoid future problems like this. What would
you think of that change?
> For the record, in case in the future anyone hits the same problem: The only
> difference between the affected system and the working one was that the
> affected
> system starts nfs-kernel-server.service on boot. This was not only delaying
> the
> boot process (whish is somewhat expected) but additionaly the order changed
> in
> which systemd services were started, resulting in a different order than the
> one
> in the working system. I couldn't pin down exactly what service was the
> problematic one, but disabling the nfs-kernel-server.service fixed the
> pinentry
> issue...
this is strange to me, because i think nfs-kernel-server.service is a
system service, and gpg-agent.{service,socket} (from the gpg-agent
package) and dbus.{service,socket} (from the dbus-user-session package)
are user services -- they shouldn't have any direct interaction, and
they're actually managed by entirely different systemd instances.
> Given that installing dbus-user-session fixed the issue independent of
> nfs-kernel-server being enabled or not, I assume that the problem may be due
> to
> gpg-agent starting *before* dbus in the non dbus-user-session scenario, but I
> am
> only guessing.
This does seem possible to me, but i don't understand how it would
interact with nfs-kernel-server.service unless there is some sort of
more general operating system race condition.
At any rate, i'm glad to hear that dbus-user-session fixed the issue for
you! do you have any reason that you don't want to just leave it
installed?
Thanks for all the debugging and documentation!
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