Package: scdaemon Version: 2.0.19-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
If scdaemon cannot find the configured reader, it will flood syslog: Sep 11 09:17:42 twin pcscd: winscard.c:241:SCardConnect() Reader Gemalto USB Shell Token V2 01 00 Not Found Sep 11 09:17:42 twin pcscd: winscard.c:241:SCardConnect() Reader Gemalto USB Shell Token V2 01 00 Not Found Sep 11 09:17:43 twin pcscd: winscard.c:241:SCardConnect() Reader Gemalto USB Shell Token V2 01 00 Not Found Sep 11 09:17:44 twin pcscd: winscard.c:241:SCardConnect() Reader Gemalto USB Shell Token V2 01 00 Not Found Sep 11 09:17:44 twin pcscd: winscard.c:241:SCardConnect() Reader Gemalto USB Shell Token V2 01 00 Not Found Sep 11 09:17:45 twin pcscd: winscard.c:241:SCardConnect() Reader Gemalto USB Shell Token V2 01 00 Not Found [...] Not only does it consume CPU time without need (the operation that triggered the spawning of scdaemon will have finished successfully using an on-disk key after the first error message from scdaemon), but it also clutters the syslog. In certain configurations (time-based syslog rotation without size restrictions), it could even lead to filling up /var/log. In other configurations it could lead to more important messages getting dropped too early. For this reason (impact on other parts of the system) I'm setting the severity to important. scdaemon itself will continue to operate normally. Once I plug in the matching card reader, the spamming will stop and SSH will be able to use the key stored on the card. Background: I have two USB smartcard readers (of different form factors, for cards of different form factor): one for online banking via HBCI and the other one for use with GnuPG (including SSH). The GnuPG one usually gets plugged into the system I happen to be physically present at, but sometimes I don't plug it in at all because the local keys are sufficient for the task at hand. To prevent the smartcard reader used for HBCI from "confusing" GnuPG, I have configured scdaemon (via ~/.gnupg/scdaemon.conf) to only use a specific reader. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages scdaemon depends on: ii libassuan0 2.0.3-1 ii libc6 2.13-35 ii libgcrypt11 1.5.0-3 ii libgpg-error0 1.10-3 ii libksba8 1.2.0-2 ii libpth20 2.0.7-16 ii libusb-0.1-4 2:0.1.12-20 scdaemon recommends no packages. scdaemon suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
