Re: [SLE] gnupg interfearance

From: Carlos E. R. (robin1.listas_at_tiscali.es)
Date: 01/17/05

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    Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 20:06:40 +0100 (CET)
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    The Monday 2005-01-17 at 05:17 -0500, Mark Hounschell wrote:

    I just said a minute ago:

    > I remember some strange question about that program, or some strange
    > behavior reported here time ago, perhaps around two years. My
    > fuzzy-online-biological-memory says it is related, but being fuzzy and
    > unreliable I can't pinpoint you to the exact source.

    And then I found this, as I was about to delete the temporary folder
    after my search:

    |> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 06:32:00 -0500
    |> From: Bob Pearson
    |> To: SuSE-Linux-English <suse-linux-e
    |> Subject: Re: [SLE] core dump file size limit
    |>
    |> On Thursday 19 February 2004 4:51 am, you wrote:
    |>
    |> If you are running SLP 9.0 it is complicated but I can send you directions.
    |> Do you have source? In 9.0 SuSE has coredumps disabled via /usr/bin/gpg-agent
    |> in package newpg-0.9.4-119 which is called from gdm and kdm at least.
    |> Please let me know if you are running 9.0 and have source.

    And later:

    |> Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 17:09:11 -0500
    |> From: Bob Pearson
    |> To: suse-kde, suse-linux-e
    |> Subject: [SLE] Enabling core dumps on SLP 9.0 i386 Solved
    |>
    |> After a great deal of searching I was able to determine and fix the inability
    |> to get core dumps in SLP 9.0 under a KDM login. Evidently, gpg-agent plays
    |> some role in a KDM login, what I am not sure but it explicitly disables core
    |> dumps in it's main function.
    |>
    |> I was able to build a new version of /usr/bin/gpg-agent from package
    |> newpg-0.9.4-119 using it's source RPM and build(1). It is missing several
    |> dependencies for the build if BUILD_ROOT is set in your environment. If you
    |> do not set BUILD_ROOT it uses /var/tmp and does not have any missing
    |> dependencies. I have included the changes needed to gpg-agent.c and
    |> instructions for building a new /usr/bin/gpg-agent.
    |>
    |> which is just commenting out the call to:
    |>
    |> #if notdef
    |> may_coredump = disable_core_dumps ();
    |> #endif
    |>
    |> in agent/gpg-agent.c
    [cut]

    I'm sure you can retrieve the full thread; you see that gpg-agent does
    interfere in more than one way. I hope it will help you to find out more
    - and if you do, I'll be curious to know about it ;-) 

    -- 
Cheers,
       Carlos Robinson
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