[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#783703: pcscd needs to be restarted after first plugging of usb card reader

Wed Apr 29 12:06:20 UTC 2015

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Thanks.

Unfortunately I can't put the card in the broadcom reader as it's a
full size card reader and I've already chopped out the small format
card. The "correct fix" would appear to be the only recourse...

Andrew.

On 29/04/15 12:59, Ludovic Rousseau wrote:
> reassign  783703gnupg2 retitle 783703 do not just use the first
> PC/SC smart card reader tags783703 upstream thank
> 
> Hello,
> 
> The problem is that gpg2 does not allow to specify a smart card
> reader to use if you have 2 or more readers.
> 
> What you can do is insert your GPG card in the integrated Broadcom
> Corp 5880 reader, or in fact in the first reader listes by pcscd.
> 
> A correct fix would be for GPG to try to find the GPG card in any 
> present reader, not just the first one.
> 
> I reassign the bug tognupg2.
> 
> Bye
> 
> Le 29/04/2015 12:18, Andrew Gallagher a écrit :
>> Package: pcscd Version: 1.8.13-1 Severity: important
>> 
>> I am using an ACS card reader with openpgp smart card. It was
>> working until I rebooted, and then gnupg stopped recognising the
>> card. Restarting pcscd with the ACS reader plugged in fixed the
>> problem, and the fix persists even after I unplug/replug the usb
>> reader.
>> 
>> The symptoms and workaround appear identical to this fedora bug:
>> 
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1092207
>> 
>> I noticed the same behaviour with the ordering of card readers
>> before and after pcscd restarts that the fedora OP reports:
>> 
>> agallagher at itchy:~$ gpg2 --card-status gpg: selecting openpgp
>> failed: Card not present gpg: OpenPGP card not available: Card
>> not present agallagher at itchy:~$ opensc-tool -l # Detected readers
>> (pcsc) Nr.  Card  Features  Name 0    No              Broadcom
>> Corp 5880 [Contacted SmartCard] (0123456789ABCD) 00 00 1    Yes
>> ACS ACR 38U-CCID 01 00 agallagher at itchy:~$ sudo service pcscd
>> restart [ ok ] Restarting PCSC Lite resource manager: pcscd. 
>> agallagher at itchy:~$ gpg2 --card-status Application ID ...:
>> D276000124010201000500002ED90000 Version ..........: 2.1 
>> Manufacturer .....: ZeitControl Serial number ....: 00002ED9 Name
>> of cardholder: Andrew Gallagher Language prefs ...: en Sex
>> ..............: unspecified URL of public key :
>> http://xen.andrewg.com/andrewg@andrewg.com.pub Login data
>> .......: [not set] Signature PIN ....: forced Key attributes ...:
>> 4096R 4096R 4096R Max. PIN lengths .: 32 32 32 PIN retry counter
>> : 3 0 3 Signature counter : 8 Signature key ....: 291E 79A1 DC55
>> AE27 A52E  EF83 5C1E C404 D590 6629 created ....: 2015-04-26
>> 16:01:24 Encryption key....: 0539 428D 4EF7 FF24 FE16  C291 6B09
>> 0693 1454 9D4B created ....: 2013-07-02 17:04:50 Authentication
>> key: EEFB 8D7C 6E3F 401C 4820  FFB2 85FD F561 DA8C 0C46 created
>> ....: 2015-04-26 16:18:28 General key info..: pub
>> 4096R/0x5C1EC404D5906629 2015-04-26 Andrew Gallagher 
>> <andrewg at andrewg.com> sec#  4096R/0xFB73E21AF1163937  created:
>> 2013-07-02  expires: 2017-01-20 ssb>  4096R/0x6B09069314549D4B
>> created: 2013-07-02  expires: 2017-04-25 card-no: 0005 00002ED9 
>> ssb>  4096R/0x5C1EC404D5906629  created: 2015-04-26  expires:
>> 2017-04-25 card-no: 0005 00002ED9 ssb>  4096R/0x85FDF561DA8C0C46
>> created: 2015-04-26  expires: 2017-04-25 card-no: 0005 00002ED9 
>> agallagher at itchy:~$ opensc-tool -l # Detected readers (pcsc) Nr.
>> Card  Features  Name 0    Yes             ACS ACR 38U-CCID 00 00 
>> 1    No              Broadcom Corp 5880 [Contacted SmartCard] 
>> (0123456789ABCD) 01 00
>> 
>> 
>> The new reader ordering persists across USB unplugging.
>> 
>> Andrew.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.0 APT prefers
>> stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500,
>> 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>> 
>> Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale:
>> LANG=en_IE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell:
>> /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
>> 
>> Versions of packages pcscd depends on: ii  init-system-helpers
>> 1.22 ii  libc6                       2.19-18 ii  libccid
>> [pcsc-ifd-handler]  1.4.18-1 ii  libpcsclite1
>> 1.8.13-1 ii  libudev1                    215-17 ii  lsb-base
>> 4.1+Debian13+nmu1
>> 
>> pcscd recommends no packages.
>> 
>> Versions of packages pcscd suggests: ii  systemd  215-17
>> 
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