Bug#623335: gnome-keyring: Package configuration fails with setcap error

aCaB acab at digitalfuture.it
Tue Apr 19 13:04:17 UTC 2011


Package: gnome-keyring
Version: 3.0.0-2
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable


gnome-keyring fails to configure, apparently due to setcap being invoked with wrong options:

# apt-get install gnome-keyring
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
gnome-keyring is already the newest version.
gnome-keyring set to manually installed.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? 
Setting up gnome-keyring (3.0.0-2) ...
Failed to set capabilities on file `/usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon' (Operation not supported)
usage: setcap [-q] [-v] (-r|-|<caps>) <filename> [ ... (-r|-|<capsN>) <filenameN> ]

 Note <filename> must be a regular (non-symlink) file.
Setting capabilities for gnome-keyring-daemon using Linux Capabilities failed.
dpkg: error processing gnome-keyring (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
configured to not write apport reports
                                      Errors were encountered while processing:
 gnome-keyring
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.37-1337ness (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-keyring depends on:
ii  dbus-x11                      1.4.6-1    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libc6                         2.11.2-13  Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcap2                       1:2.20-1   support for getting/setting POSIX.
ii  libcap2-bin                   1:2.20-1   basic utility programs for using c
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.4.6-1    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgck0                       3.0.0-2    Glib wrapper library for PKCS#11 -
ii  libgcr-3-0                    3.0.0-2    Library for Crypto UI related task
ii  libgcrypt11                   1.4.6-5    LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.28.6-1   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk-3-0                    3.0.8-1    The GTK+ graphical user interface 

Versions of packages gnome-keyring recommends:
ii  libpam-gnome-keyring          3.0.0-2    PAM module to unlock the GNOME key

gnome-keyring suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information






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