[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#898085: gnupg: gpg --search-keys and parcimonie don't work: Tor misconfigured/keyserver EPERM

[Cyril Brulebois]

Package: gnupg
Version: 2.1.18-8~deb9u1
Severity: important

Hi,

Ever since the dist-upgrade to stretch (last september), I'm unable to
search keys, and parcimonie is failing on me:
| kibi at armor:~$ gpg --search-keys some at mail.address
| gpg: WARNING: Tor is not properly configured
| gpg: error searching keyserver: Permission denied
| gpg: keyserver search failed: Permission denied

and;
| Sleeping for 1 hour and 32 minutes...
| Fetching key <LONG_ID>...
| Failed to fetch key <LONG_ID>: gpg:
| WARNING: Tor is not properly configured
| gpg: keyserver receive failed: Permission denied
|  at /usr/share/perl5/App/Parcimonie/Daemon.pm line 350.
| .
| Sleeping for 1 day and 4 minutes...

I've also had much troubles with caff but I don't have specific logs
handy any more; I just remember having trashed the whole .gnupg
directory and reinjected keys there, to be extra sure I had no specific
configuration files that might be getting in the way.

How come gpg fails this badly in stable, with a default configuration?


Cheers,
-- 
Cyril Brulebois (kibi at debian.org)            <https://debamax.com/>
D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant

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Versions of packages gnupg depends on:
ii  gnupg-agent    2.1.18-8~deb9u1
ii  libassuan0     2.4.3-2
ii  libbz2-1.0     1.0.6-8.1
ii  libc6          2.24-11+deb9u3
ii  libgcrypt20    1.7.6-2+deb9u2
ii  libgpg-error0  1.26-2
ii  libksba8       1.3.5-2
ii  libreadline7   7.0-3
ii  libsqlite3-0   3.16.2-5+deb9u1
ii  zlib1g         1:1.2.8.dfsg-5

Versions of packages gnupg recommends:
ii  dirmngr     2.1.18-8~deb9u1
ii  gnupg-l10n  2.1.18-8~deb9u1

Versions of packages gnupg suggests:
ii  parcimonie  0.10.2-4
pn  xloadimage  <none>

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