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Bug 815175 - virt-viewer failed to initialize software smartcard.
Summary: virt-viewer failed to initialize software smartcard.
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: virt-viewer
Version: 6.3
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: rc
: ---
Assignee: Daniel Berrangé
QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-04-23 03:03 UTC by Geyang Kong
Modified: 2013-08-05 03:43 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2012-04-26 07:38:14 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
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This is what I got with --spice-debug option. (61.66 KB, text/plain)
2012-04-23 03:03 UTC, Geyang Kong 		no flags Details
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Description Geyang Kong 2012-04-23 03:03:38 UTC 
Created attachment 579401 [details]
This is what I got with --spice-debug option.

Description of problem:
  virt-viewer failed to initialize software smartcard.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
virt-viewer-0.5.2-5.el6.x86_64

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Imaging there is a running guest, and executed #yum groupinstall "smart card support".
2. mkdir ~/.netscape
3. certutil -N (use an empty password)
4. certutil -x -t "CT,CT,CT" -S -s "CN=cert1" -n cert1
5. certutil -x -t "CT,CT,CT" -S -s "CN=cert2" -n cert2
6. certutil -x -t "CT,CT,CT" -S -s "CN=cert3" -n cert3
7. spicec -p 5900 -h localhost --smartcard --smartcard-db ~/.netscape/ --smartcard-cert cert1,cert2,cert3
8. virt-viewer --spice-smartcard --spice-smartcard-db=~/.netscape/ --spice-smartcard-certificates=cert1,cert2,cert3 $guestname

Actual results:

1. After step7, guest can read smart card successfully.
2. After step8, there is an error in terminal. "GSpice-WARNING **: Failed to initialize smart card", and guest cannot get software smart card."

Expected results:

1. After step8, guest can get smart card just like spicec without error.

Additional info:

1. remote-viewer --spice-smartcard --spice-smartcard-db=~/.netscape/ --spice-smartcard-certificates=cert1,cert2,cert3 spice://127.0.0.1:5900, this command has the same issue.
Comment 1 Christophe Fergeau 2012-04-25 16:20:28 UTC 
Step 8 works for me if I use the full path to ~/.netscape, /home/teuf/.netscape in my case. Can you confirm it's working for you too? It's also working if I change "--spice-smartcard-db=~/.netscape/" to "--spice-smartcard-db ~/.netscape/", and this makes the command line closer to the spicec one.

spicy has the same behaviour so it's a spice-gtk bug. The behaviour with and without = is inconsistent, but most apps accepting an optional '=' in their options probably have the same behaviour (I think the shell does the ~ -> /home/foo/ substitution when it's preceded by a blank space, but not when there's a =). If you can confirm things are working for you with the changes I mentioned, then I think we can close this bug with no further action.
Comment 2 Geyang Kong 2012-04-26 06:35:54 UTC 
I have retried with following 2 commands
virt-viewer --spice-smartcard --spice-smartcard-db ~/.netscape/ --spice-smartcard-certificates=cert1,cert2,cert3 $guestname
virt-viewer --spice-smartcard --spice-smartcard-db /root/.netscape/ --spice-smartcard-certificates=cert1,cert2,cert3 $guestname
Both of them works well for me.
Comment 3 Christophe Fergeau 2012-04-26 07:38:14 UTC 
Ok, thanks  for retesting, I'm closing this bug then. If anyone disagree, just reopen it.
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