Bug 1573829 - Cannot view, use, create or interact with GPG Keys in Seahorse
Summary: Cannot view, use, create or interact with GPG Keys in Seahorse
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: seahorse
Version: 28
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Matthias Clasen
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-05-02 10:37 UTC by Kurt
Modified: 2019-10-11 07:09 UTC (History)
25 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2019-05-09 21:13:37 UTC
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screenshot of seahorse with no GPG items in the left menu (24.93 KB, image/png)
2018-05-02 10:37 UTC, Kurt
no flags Details
screenshot of seahorse with no option to create GPG Key (33.79 KB, image/png)
2018-05-02 10:39 UTC, Kurt
no flags Details
Proposed patch for "configure" script. (308 bytes, patch)
2018-08-01 15:09 UTC, Steven Bakker
no flags Details | Diff

Description Kurt 2018-05-02 10:37:59 UTC
Created attachment 1429872 [details]
screenshot of seahorse with no GPG items in the left menu

Description of problem:
Cannot view, use, create or interact with GPG Keys in Seahorse

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Seahorse 3.20.0

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open seahorse
2. No GPG Keys appear in the side menu (these have previously appeared in F27 before upgrade and can be listed in the terminal with gpg and gpg2)
3. File -> New ...
4. No options appears to create GPG Key

Actual results:
No visual or control elements to view, use, create or interact with GPG Keys

Expected results:
Have menu options to create new keys and a remote tools bar to share GPG Keys to a server. Be able to view keys in seahorse which are on my system.

Additional info:
Upgraded OS from F27 to F28 via dnf when the problem presented.

Using the command line I can list my keys (gpg and gpg2) however they are not visible in Seahorse.

A new feature in Libreoffice to sign documents launches seahorse to select the key and none of the keys are visible.

Evolution mail works fine with the GPG keys.

I have seahorse-nautilus installed and that works fine. So it seems to be a UI issue with seahorse.

Comment 1 Kurt 2018-05-02 10:39:14 UTC
Created attachment 1429874 [details]
screenshot of seahorse with no option to create GPG Key

Comment 2 Richard Ruhland 2018-05-10 14:14:04 UTC
Same Problem

Comment 3 Leonid Kanter 2018-05-10 17:24:32 UTC
Same problem

Comment 4 David Haller 2018-05-12 09:15:29 UTC
Same problem

Comment 5 Steven Bakker 2018-05-12 17:45:22 UTC
Same here. Previously, when trying to sign/decrypt something from the command line, a GUI dialog would pop up (which I guess is gnome-keyring/seahorse) and prompt for the password. This is no longer the case.

Comment 6 Christian Labisch 2018-05-29 11:50:11 UTC
I can confirm the same - there is no gpg section in seahorse (3.20.0-9.fc28).

Comment 7 Dirk Gottschalk 2018-06-24 15:04:16 UTC
I can also confirm. GPG section vanished unexpectedly after update from F27.

Comment 8 Stephen So 2018-07-08 12:47:23 UTC
Also confirming here that there is no PGP/GPG section in Seahorse (seahorse-3.20.0-9.fc28.x86_64).  Even keys created using gpg2 on the command line do not appear in seahorse.

Comment 9 yousifjkadom@yahoo.com 2018-07-08 17:45:47 UTC
I'm also have this issue on my system Fedora 28 X64 bit Cinnamon edition with same Seahorse version 3.20

Best.

Comment 10 John Webb 2018-07-19 00:52:08 UTC
Seems to be same problem as I had in Fedora 27 reported in 1553014, --> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1553014 and as also reported in Fedora 28 in bug 1577397 -> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1577397

Comment 11 Reg E. 2018-07-24 05:41:49 UTC
Same problem for me too.

Comment 12 Steven Bakker 2018-08-01 13:58:43 UTC
This bug has been open for three months now, no progress, no fix, nothing. Is there any way to escalate this further? Is it only Fedora that is affected by this?

Comment 13 HaJo Schatz 2018-08-01 14:16:59 UTC
+1 here -- this is at least a "high" severity...

Kurt, can you change severity of this pls?

Comment 14 Kurt 2018-08-01 14:32:40 UTC
(In reply to HaJo Schatz from comment #13)
> +1 here -- this is at least a "high" severity...
> 
> Kurt, can you change severity of this pls?

Unfortunately I am unable to change either Priority or Severity fields as they are restricted to the development team.

Somebody with the required credentials is needed to do that.

Comment 15 Steven Bakker 2018-08-01 15:07:43 UTC
The bug seems to be in seahorse's "configure" script, which doesn't like Fedora 28's gpg2 version (2.2.8).

If I download the source package and change the GNUPG_ACCEPTED="2.0.12 2.1.4" line to GNUPG_ACCEPTED="2.0.12 2.1.4 2.2.8", I can build seahorse with GPG support.

Comment 16 Steven Bakker 2018-08-01 15:09:23 UTC
Created attachment 1472137 [details]
Proposed patch for "configure" script.

This is only a quick fix. The real problem is more fundamental in configure.ac, but I don't want to mess with that right now.

Comment 17 HaJo Schatz 2018-08-01 15:42:47 UTC
Just got in touch with the seahorse devels @ IRC. Seems gpg is now too new for the latest seahorse release. They are thinking of a new seahorse release, but well, workload. Apparently this seems an issue that slipped through @ Fedora QC...

Comment 18 Steven Bakker 2018-08-02 06:56:34 UTC
Yeah, I noticed that although PGP seems to be enabled in my build, it's not exactly functional. :-(

Comment 19 Steven Bakker 2018-08-02 07:04:40 UTC
This seems to work a little better:

sudo dnf install --releasever=27 seahorse-3.20.0-6.fc27

But it's not what I would call a solution.

Comment 20 Christian Stadelmann 2018-09-07 07:49:56 UTC
Upstream has a new version, 3.30, which may fix this issue.

Comment 21 Steven Bakker 2018-09-07 14:54:08 UTC
Looks like it, indeed. I just built it and ran it. It sees my keyring and I can query and view the keys. Haven't tried anything beyond that, though, so I wouldn't call that "testing", but it looks promising.

Comment 22 John Webb 2018-09-08 01:14:41 UTC
Also built 3.30 from https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/seahorse.git and was able to change picture on my GPG key, also check which signatures are on keys in my keyring, and sign a key.  Not fully tested yet, but seems to be working.

Comment 23 morgan read 2018-09-12 17:09:37 UTC
There's a version for f29 & f30 in Koji as of 2018-09-07:
https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=3812
Perhaps we can look forward to some trickle down...

Comment 24 Christian Stadelmann 2018-09-18 15:55:52 UTC
The Fedora 29 version of seahorse is usable and allows interaction with GPG keys. This issue can be closed as fixed in next release.

Comment 25 Alexander Bokovoy 2018-09-29 09:45:36 UTC
Matthias, given that seahorse with a small patch discussed here works on F28 and there is alreadya fix for F28, is it possible to update F28 too?

I can provide a pull request if nobody does it before.

Comment 26 Christian Labisch 2018-11-01 11:35:44 UTC
The issue is fixed in fedora 29 workstation, we have the gpg section in seahorse.

Comment 27 RobertASpigler 2019-01-06 06:11:57 UTC
Hello,

The latest stable release of Seahorse is 3.30.1, which does not have this issue.

Fedora 29 has version 3.30.1, yet Fedora 28 still has v3.20.0, which /does/ have this critical issue.

F28 has not reached EOL, as Alexander requested, can F28 be updated as well please?

Thank you!

Comment 28 RobertASpigler 2019-01-06 06:12:28 UTC
Hello,

The latest stable release of Seahorse is 3.30.1, which does not have this issue.

Fedora 29 has version 3.30.1, yet Fedora 28 still has v3.20.0, which /does/ have this critical issue.

F28 has not reached EOL, as Alexander requested, can F28 be updated as well please?

Thank you!

Comment 29 morgan read 2019-01-13 13:55:02 UTC
Can I re-iterate :-) Robert's request please - is there any reason why the 3.30.1 update can't be provided to f28?

Comment 30 Ben Cotton 2019-05-02 20:03:03 UTC
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