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Re: Bug#634930: gpa: GPA unusable due to "General Assuan error"
Dear gnupg/gpa developers,

There is some strange issue with gpa on a Debian users system. See

http://bugs.debian.org/634930

and the mail below. gpa has no debug switch. What do you suggest to
debug the issue?

Regards, Daniel


Am Montag, den 02.07.2012, 09:27 +0200 schrieb Lionel Gamay:
> I had this error displayed in three existing profiles on this machine,
> even with no gpg key stored in one of these profiles. So I created a
> fresh new profile as you suggested. The result are:
>
> - there is not any problem with any of the reimported keys in the new profile
> - in the new profile, there is no "General Assuan error" when starting gpa
>
> In one of the profiles where the "bug" is present and gnupg is already
> configured and working with the old version of gpa, I moved away the
> .gnupg directory in order to have it recreated when starting again the newer
> gpa. And the error was however still displayed.
>
> So this error message seems to be related to something else stored
> in the currently existing user profiles that I can't figure for now. If you
> ever have any clue...
>
> All my apologies.
>
> Lionel


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Re: Bug#634930: gpa: GPA unusable due to "General Assuan error" [ In reply to ]
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Am Sonntag, den 08.07.2012, 02:39 +0000 schrieb mnmnmnmn@tormail.org:
> I have found that the problem is the expired X.509 certificates.

How did you find out?

> Here is my easy workaround to solve this bug.
>
> 1. Remove the file where the X.509 certificates are stored.
>
> rm usr/share/gnupg2/com-certs.pem

Instead of removing this file can you please try the option:
--disable-x509 instead?

> 2. Remove your gnupg configuration folder.
>
> rm home/benutzer/.gnupg/

Is the second step really necessary?

> That's all. Should work for every version. Enjoy.

It works locally without removing this file. [1] proves this too.

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=634930#45

Regards, Daniel


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Re: Bug#634930: gpa: GPA unusable due to "General Assuan error" [ In reply to ]
Hi,

I tried to replicate the problem with the current stable versions of GPA
0.9.2 and GPGME (well, my working copy). I was not able to do that. I
don't have a clean squeeze installation right now available thus I can't
check 0.9.0 easily.

Lionel, would you mind to run another test with GPA 0.9.2, GPGME 1.3.2,
and GnuPG 2.0.19 (or 2.1-beta).


Salam-Shalom,

Werner

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Re: Bug#634930: gpa: GPA unusable due to "General Assuan error" [ In reply to ]
On Fri, 13 Jul 2012 15:30, wk@gnupg.org said:

> Lionel, would you mind to run another test with GPA 0.9.2, GPGME 1.3.2,
> and GnuPG 2.0.19 (or 2.1-beta).

Sorry, Lionel, it was meant to be sent the other Lionel.


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Re: Bug#634930: gpa: GPA unusable due to "General Assuan error" [ In reply to ]
Am Freitag, den 13.07.2012, 15:30 +0200 schrieb Werner Koch:

> I tried to replicate the problem with the current stable versions of GPA
> 0.9.2 and GPGME (well, my working copy). I was not able to do that. I
> don't have a clean squeeze installation right now available thus I can't
> check 0.9.0 easily.
>
> Lionel, would you mind to run another test with GPA 0.9.2, GPGME 1.3.2,
> and GnuPG 2.0.19 (or 2.1-beta).

NOTE: The following packages are unofficial packaging work. We have an
outdated gpgme in Debian. I've built packages for the latest gpgme
release. However, if you install them, you probably need to downgrade
these packages after you've tested, how gpa behaves!

GPGME 1.3.2 packages built for unstable are here:
http://debian.wgdd.de/debian/incoming/packages/

Regards, Daniel


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