There will be no full solution for this. However, the next release should in general work due to a 400ms delay we use after spawning the viewer. This is configurable; see rG7e5847da0f3d715cb59d05adcd9107b460b6411b.

I guess you are the only person who does it. But yeah. I agree that it should be fixed.

Actually the temp file is created but because the photo viewer is run as a detached process and gpg keeps on running, the temp file has been removed by gpg at the time the photo viewer tries to open it. Ooops. The correct behaviour would be to wait for the photo viewer to be finished. We use

That was obvious. rG6fc5df1e10129f3171d80cf731f310b9e8d97c26 fixes this.

When doing a "gpgsm --with-validation -k foo" (assuming you have a cert foo) gpgsm now goes into a loop and prints the certficates that match "foo" over and over again. I have not tested if it was caused by this change but I think it is likely.

I imported 39 certificate files at once with Kleopatra with about 700 certificates and it worked. Took a long time though so It would be nice if Kleopatra would show a progess indicator or some indication that the import is running. But this is a different issue.

The last lines that the process currently holding wrote in the log:

To reproduce this issue I started Kleopatra with an empty GNUPGHOME and imported 10 S/MIME certs at once (which spawns a gpgsm process each) with enabled logging.

As this update lists multiple issues and following fixes for them, maybe it was resolved by Microsoft?

Well, I deinstalled gpg 3.1.7 and reinstalled it. For some reason my two gnupg smart cards work fine, but my two Yubikeys cannot be detected anymore (no such device). But in the last weeks, they were deteced, only the switching between Yubikey and Smart Card made some trouble. That they cannot be recognized is new and makes real trouble. If you think it would maybe helpful, I can submit a scdaemon.log file by e-mail.

I've applied your patch with an additional comment to our master branch. Thanks!

gpg4win 3.1.6 is released which contains this fix.

Sorry, this did not make it into 3.1.6. But I'll definitely see about it for the next release. If it is an institutional / corporate issue you could also contract us through www.gnupg.com

In T4427#123774, @werner wrote:

Can you please run

gpg --debug ipc -vK

which will also start gpg-agent and print some diagnostics. You may want to redact the output. You can also run

From: aheinecke (Andre Heinecke)
Sent: Montag, 28. Januar 2019 19:25

fwiw. Your patch is beautiful in which it follows our coding style and
debug output. I'm confident that we will accept it but currently I have
to read up on Job's a bit.

Is there a way I could help you with this? This issue is hampering adoption
of GnuPG 2 here.

--

Jan Echternach

Trying to install the update manually (according to windows update my windows is fully updated) it says "This update is not meant for your computer" and aborts.

Can you please run

gpg --debug ipc -vK

which will also start gpg-agent and print some diagnostics. You may want to redact the output. You can also run

gpg-agent -v --daemon

which should also print some more info.

thanks for the report. Yes this is a known issue. This pinentry is so basic that it does not have dynamic layout as we don't include GUI libraries in the basic installer. For a better pinentry you can install Gpg4win.
In the future we are thinking about adding a pinentry based on the small "FLTK" toolkit, with dynamic layout.

I reviewed the multibyte handling in GnuPG and you are right, there is a general problem because we use ReadConsoleA and basically GetCommandLineA, so there is no way for multibyte input unless a parameter file is used. Output is also broken, but that is easier to fix iff the input case has been fixed.

fwiw. Your patch is beautiful in which it follows our coding style and debug output. I'm confident that we will accept it but currently I have to read up on Job's a bit.

That is a very interesting problem that we did not have on our radar.

I want to have this fixed for the next release so prio high.

Oops. Assignee removal was an accident. Sorry for the noise here ;-)

Just as a note: To workaround this you can also place "no-use-tor" into %APPDATA%\gnupg\dirmngr.conf (you might need to create that file) %APPDATA% expands to something like "c:\users\yourname\appdata\roaming"

In T3381#121973, @madhon wrote:

In T3381#121972, @Spiker wrote:

On Win 10 Pro it looks like File Transfer Server.exe is running on port 9050 which could be causing the issue. See screenshots.

That process is the one i killed which is part of Asus Wi-Fi Go

In T3381#121972, @Spiker wrote:

On Win 10 Pro it looks like File Transfer Server.exe is running on port 9050 which could be causing the issue. See screenshots.

On Win 10 Pro it looks like File Transfer Server.exe is running on port 9050 which could be causing the issue. See screenshots.

Apparently i had a ASUS Wi-Fi go process listening on that port (even though i thought had uninstalled it), killing the process also allows dirmngr to start

Thanks you very much for your help! I think we have it. \o/

Running with the --no-use-tor results in output ending with OK Dirmngr 2.2.11 at your service, attached is the procmon output , to clear up one thing q4master.idsoftware.com points to 127.0.0.1 in my hosts file (in addition to localhost also pointing to 127.0.0.1), but it seems the issue is with the tor check

I see some strangeness:
A TCP Connect: q4master.idsoftware.com:4862 -> q4master.idsoftware.com:9050
and TCP Send: q4master.idsoftware.com:4862 -> q4master.idsoftware.com:9050

Done, See attached

I'm thinking of how to move this forward.
The problem is that we (the developers) can't reproduce this at all and the debug output does not show anything.

Has anybody discovered a fix for this issue? I'm running Win 10 Pro with Gpg4win v3.1.5. Dirmngr is still not executing and just hangs.

I've developed a simple patch that sets the CREATE_BREAKAWAY_FROM_JOB flag when creating a new background process. This flag requires a special permission on the job object, which is tested first. This means that the patch only works if the parent process sets JOB_OBJECT_LIMIT_BREAKAWAY_OK on the job object, otherwise the behavior should be as without the patch.

Yes, it's running. I have a scheduled task that spawns a vbscript to ensure that gpg-agent is started on login, and restarts it on insertion of a card (specifically for two reasons: windows ssh clients don't typically start agents automatically, and windows can cause gpg-agent to get a but upset after a card is removed and re-inserted. Edit: although, I think that latter reason might be resolved now... I haven't investigated deeply. more info here and here).

Thanks for your information.
Hum, you are using gpg-agent for SSH access.

When no card is inserted, usage of an ssh client simply fails to request insertion of the card for the stub keys present in ~/.gnupg/.

Please let us know the version of GnuPG, the output of gpg --card-status when inserted, and how gpg is not working well, etc.

How scdaemon responds when there is no card available?

Sounds good! I give it to me for testing / documenting this.

With master we can now do:

@werner Be my guest.

Why not using PowerShell? Because --with-colons does not output the required hash? But that can't be the reason because Python has the very same problem. Using Python for scripts is anyway a bit of overkill.

Precondition: A list of pubkeys, as keyring or as keyring file with list of fingerprints.
Goal: a static file structure that can be uploaded on my webserver.
Platform: Windows, a better solution does require less additional dependencies apart from Gpg4win.

... that would be useful in many ways. I'd say we should support anyone who wants to use pythong-gnupg on windows.

@werner it is like @aheinecke writes:

As I see it Bernhard is just asking for the flat strucuture so basically some export script that creates the needed files on windows.

If they really want to do that for Windows, they can use some database approach like Protonmail does it. This does not require any file structure.

Sorry, we won't implement a server for WIndows. No sane provider uses Windows for a large mail setup.

Marking this as resolved as it was forgotten in the testing state.

I'm also seeing the same behaviour on a freshly installed Windows 10 1809 with Gpg4win v3.1.4. Have to kill dirmngr from task manager to be able to get into Kleopatra.

Hi, Has anyone found a reason why that happens. I run into the same behavior on my Windows 10 1803 computer. I have Gpg4win version 3.1.3 freshly installed and dirmngr hangs. Thanks and best regards, Peter

I need to know which of the processes segv: mkdefsinc, cat or the subshell. And a backtrace would also be very helpful.

Was anyone successful in debugging dirmngr? I'm having the same issue. The dirmngr process gets stuck, no output at all, and this causes Kleopatra to get stuck waiting for it. I can only run Kleopatra after I have killed the dirmngr process. If I understand correctly I still need this process for network-related functionality, so I would need to fix it if I want to use all functions.

IMO this can be closed. At least the problem for which I intended this ticket is fixed.

Printing "(null)" is just coincidence because NULL is stored at the respective stack address on one platform.

Well I'm pretty sure the reason is that valuetable_buffer is not inialized in _gpgrt_estream_format. But the resulting behavior confused me. It would not crash. But it would also not print "gpg: Entschlüsselung als fehlgeschlagen angesehen: (null)" It would just print nothing instead of that string.

Not really. off_t is a real portability problem and this why we moved that problem out of the GPGME ABI to the application. Thus the application needs to care about mapping gpgme_off_t to whatever off_t it uses. Without that we can't provide a stable _and_ toolchain independent ABI.

Thank you for pointing this out.

Following patch fixes the issue.

@tinkerwolf This is weird... I've reinstalled my PC from scratch with an initial account set as local, and was able to set up GPG4Win perfectly fine for the first time on my PC (as I did in the VM). So, set up a VM with an initial account set up from an online account. GPG4Win started up fine... I am now really confused!! Somewhere within the getting set up with an online account, something has to be happening that interferes with dirmngr..
Will investigate further.

@RAmbidge are you able to further test this by using a VM with a MS account? I don't have the means right now, or I'd do it myself.

That actually makes sense, because it works fine on my laptop, where it's been a local account from the start, but it's broken on my desktop where it was originally a MS account, but is now local.

I'm having the same issue. I read somewhere that it's likely caused by using an online Windows account to login with. So I converted to local log in. Issue persists. As a test, I've just set up a VM with a local account set up at install, and GPG4Win works perfectly fine. So I'm guessing that there may be an issue which stays in the files system caused by online account users. I'm not a programmer and have no idea how or where to look to see what's causing it and how to fix it though.