Hi, intrigeri <intrig...@debian.org> (2018-06-30): > I believe that for the time being, this problem cannot be fixed in > GnuPG but rather in parcimonie. > > Cyril Brulebois: > > Ever since the dist-upgrade to stretch (last september), I'm unable to > > search keys, and parcimonie is failing on me: > > | kibi@armor:~$ gpg --search-keys some@mail.address > > | gpg: WARNING: Tor is not properly configured > > | gpg: error searching keyserver: Permission denied > > | gpg: keyserver search failed: Permission denied > > May I assume that you have no tor service running?
Well:
kibi@armor:~$ gpg --search-keys k...@mraw.org
gpg: WARNING: Tor is not properly configured
gpg: error searching keyserver: Permission denied
gpg: keyserver search failed: Permission denied
kibi@armor:~$ ps faux|grep tor
debian-+ 895 0.0 0.2 89636 38352 ? Ss Jun23 8:52
/usr/bin/tor --defaults-torrc /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc -f
/etc/tor/torrc --RunAsDaemon 0
kibi 3094 0.0 0.0 126772 3356 ? Ss Jun23 0:00 dirmngr
--daemon --homedir /home/kibi/.local/share/torbrowser/gnupg_homedir
kibi 3099 0.0 0.0 91572 432 ? Ss Jun23 0:00 gpg-agent
--homedir /home/kibi/.local/share/torbrowser/gnupg_homedir
--use-standard-socket --daemon
> parcimonie enables the use-tor option in ~/.gnupg/dirmngr.conf.
> It's being debated on another bug report (filed against parcimonie)
> whether it's a feature or a bug, and if the latter how to fix it.
> Anyway: currently, as soon as parcimonie has been run once as a given
> user, then any dirmngr network operation run as that user require
> a working tor daemon.
>
> Now, parcimonie merely "Recommends: tor" (since 2011). I don't recall
> why I did not add a strict dependency back then; possibly I wanted to
> be nice to Tor Browser users who don't want to run a system tor, and
> instead use the tor that comes bundled with Tor Browser (there are
> good reasons for setting things up like this, such as having a single
> place to configure bridges etc. and being able to do so in a GUI).
Relatedly, I have this installed:
ii torbrowser-launcher 0.2.9-3~bpo9+1
> So, in some way a Recommends is correct: one of the major use cases of
> parcimonie works just fine without Debian's tor service (using
> 3rd-party software though). OTOH, parcimonie will simply be broken for
> whoever has disabled installation of Recommends by default, unless
> they know exactly that they want to run tor in a different way, and
> how to do so. So there's a case to be made to turn this
> "Recommends: tor" into "Depends: tor".
>
> > How come gpg fails this badly in stable, with a default configuration?
>
> I think the default gpg configuration in stable works fine… as long as
> one is not unlucky enough to meet all these conditions:
>
> - having disabled installation of Recommends by default (or manually
> de-installed tor, or manually disabled the tor service)
> - not running Tor Browser
> - having installed parcimonie
I'm not sure I'm ticking all these boxes…
Cheers,
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Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org) <https://debamax.com/>
D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant
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