On Monday 01 September 2014 at 08:37:45, Werner Koch wrote: > On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 16:00, [email protected] said: > > I'd like to use the card manager function, but whenever I invoke it the > > application returns the error "Error accessing the card", and the > > status bar reports "Checking for card .. " > > I have actually thank you for raising this issue: > > gnome-keyring-daemon[5531]: unrecognized command: SCD > > The problem is that the gnome-keyring-dameon hijacks the inter process > communication (IPC) between gpg and gpg-agent. It implements a very > limited set of commands of gpg-agent but nothing more. Recent versions > of GnuPG detect this and show a warning message or pop-up to tell you > just this.
Because I ran into the issue analysing why an gpgsm installation on Ubuntu did not work, I think this warrants a section in the wiki: http://wiki.gnupg.org/PlatformNotes If would be nice if you (all) could help me and GnuPG and look up the problem reports within Ubuntu or Gnome and linke them from there. > Depending on the version of gnome-keyring-daemon, it is possible to > disable the gpg-agent hijacking component. Unfortunately it is hard to > convince the maintainer to disable this mis-features. > > > Otherwise if I run gpg --card-status with a card in the USB card reader > > I get the following: > > You are using gpg 1.4.x which can directly talk to the card. However, > latest card features are not supported by 1.4 but only by GnuPG 2.x. > > See the mail thread starting with this mail for details: > > http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-devel/2014-August/028689.html > > > I presume, the system is misconfigured is some way. Any one got any > > suggestions? > > You may want to bring this to the attention of your Linux distribution. > The solution could be easy: The gpg-agent component needs to be disabled > when build gnome-keyring-daemon: > > ./configure --disable-gpg-agent > > > Shalom-Salam, > > Werner -- www.intevation.de/~bernhard (CEO) www.fsfe.org (Founding GA Member) Intevation GmbH, Osnabrück, Germany; Amtsgericht Osnabrück, HRB 18998 Owned and run by Frank Koormann, Bernhard Reiter, Dr. Jan-Oliver Wagner
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