[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#833596: systemd user service {gpg-agent, dirmngr} breaks GNOME session startup

Daniel Kahn Gillmor dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Wed Aug 10 15:46:55 UTC 2016


On https://bugs.debian.org/833596 :

On Wed 2016-08-10 04:27:21 -0400, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 12:12:27AM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
>> So i'm not able to reproduce this behavior.
>> 
>> Zack, can you help me narrow down how this is happening for you?
>
> Sure, I'll be happy to. But as I mentioned before I wonder if it's worth
> to do it with my current package mix: I'm using testing, where the GNOME
> stack seems to be still in flux, apparently), with gnupg2 coming from
> experimental. I can debug, but I wonder if it'd be a good time
> investment.

That's the exact same stack i used for my test, and i didn't see the
error.  so yeah, i'd like to try to track it down.

> Unless you consider this issue potentially blocking for uploading to
> unstable, I'd rather wait for gnupg2 to land in testing and try again.
> After all the issue is for a non-default behavior that one should
> explicitly enabled, right?

I'm willing to upload to unstable with this bug still open  -- but the
software will still be the same software ;)

>> do you have logs of the failed login session someplace, or other details
>> that might help diagnose?
>
> I can look up logs, but I could use some guidance about where the GNOME
> user session logs are supposed to be. ~/.xsession-errors seems to be
> obsolete --- or else it hasn't received log entries on my laptop since
> March 2016, which seems unlikely...

Hm, maybe "journalctl --user" ?  i'm cc'ing pkg-gnome-maintainers to see
whether they have any suggestions for better debugging techniques.

Thanks for following up,

        --dkg
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