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Bug 1900395 - Evolution Flatpak unable to execute pinentry
Summary: Evolution Flatpak unable to execute pinentry
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: evolution
Version: 33
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Milan Crha
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2020-11-22 17:56 UTC by Rasmus Thomsen
Modified: 2020-11-28 02:41 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

Fixed In Version: evolution-3.38.3-1 evolution-master-3320201123103523.1
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Last Closed: 2020-11-23 10:43:03 UTC
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Description Rasmus Thomsen 2020-11-22 17:56:52 UTC 
Description of problem:

When trying to send GPG signed emails with the org.gnome.Evolution flatpak from Fedora the following error message occurs:


> gpg: Writing after '-',
> gpg: Authentication not successful: No pin-entry,
> gpg: signing failed: No pin-entry.


It works with the Flathub version and it seems like they had a similiar problem:
https://github.com/flathub/org.gnome.Evolution/issues/12

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Evolution 3.38.2


How reproducible: Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Evolution
2. Setup GPG signing in the settings
3. Try to send a GPG signed email

Actual results:
The already mentioned error message occurs.

Expected results:
Pinentry would ask for the password of the GPG key and then Evolution would sign the email.
Comment 1 Milan Crha 2020-11-23 08:13:09 UTC 
Thanks for a bug report. I see Evolution tries to run the gpg-agent [1] on its start, but the gpg-agent is not built, neither evolution depends on it [2]. I'll try to add it, to see whether it'll help.

[1] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/evolution/blob/master/f/flatpak-evolution-wrapper.sh.in#_10
[2] https://src.fedoraproject.org/flatpaks/evolution/blob/master/f/evolution.yaml#_31
Comment 2 Milan Crha 2020-11-23 10:43:03 UTC 
I found the problem. The flatpak wrapper is shared with other Flatpak builds (the one in Flathub and the local build), but the others build also the pinentry, thus the gpg-agent needs to be told where it should look for it. The Fedora Flatpak used a package, which installs the pinentry into the correct place, thus I removed the gpg-agent invocation from the wrapper script.

A workaround is to edit (as root) the file:

   /var/lib/flatpak/app/org.gnome.Evolution/current/active/files/bin/evolution

and remove from there the two lines containing "gpg-agent" (quotes for clarity only).
Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2020-11-24 11:20:23 UTC 
FEDORA-FLATPAK-2020-f9b8ca1880 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 33 Flatpaks. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-FLATPAK-2020-f9b8ca1880
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2020-11-25 02:22:15 UTC 
FEDORA-FLATPAK-2020-f9b8ca1880 has been pushed to the Fedora 33 Flatpaks testing repository.

You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-FLATPAK-2020-f9b8ca1880

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.
Comment 5 Rasmus Thomsen 2020-11-25 19:20:54 UTC 
The new version works for me, thanks a lot for the quick fix!
Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2020-11-28 02:41:57 UTC 
FEDORA-FLATPAK-2020-f9b8ca1880 has been pushed to the Fedora 33 Flatpaks stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.
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