Error while uploading keys to keyservers

[Adna rim]

Hi,
one can't upload a key to a keyserver using gpa. It always comes the error-msg: "Invalid Argument.". Tested on Gutsy.

The problem exists because gpa uses gpgkeys_ldap and gpgkeys_hkp to upload the keys and gnupg needs to be compiled with these plugins to make it work. At the moment gnupg is compiled without them.

greets

[Michael Bienia (geser)]

Can you test if it also fails if you try with gpg to upload the key to the same keyserver?

[Adna rim (adnarim)]

Yes with gpg everything works fine. I'm using the cmdl for uploading keys because gpa is not working for me. I also configured a keyserver (keyserver.noreply.org or hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com) in my gpg.conf and gpa also tries to send to it but as I told I always get the error "Invalid Argument." and sometimes it crashes then. There doesn't appear any error in the console but I have made a strace:

poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN}], 1, 0) = 0
gettimeofday({1203093744, 782291}, NULL) = 0
ioctl(3, FIONREAD, [0]) = 0
gettimeofday({1203093744, 782442}, NULL) = 0
poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN}], 1, 0) = 0
write(3, "5\30\4\0\346\2\240\1\211\2\240\1\201\0\33\0\236\4\5\0\347"..., 1784) = 1784
ioctl(3, FIONREAD, [0]) = 0
gettimeofday({1203093744, 784021}, NULL) = 0
poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN, revents=POLLIN}], 1, 499) = 1
ioctl(3, FIONREAD, [160]) = 0
read(3, "\10\0\353\27e\255\371\35\211\0\0\0\214\2\240\1\0\0\0\000"..., 160) = 160
gettimeofday({1203093744, 998108}, NULL) = 0
poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN}], 1, 0) = 0
poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN}], 1, 0) = 0
gettimeofday({1203093744, 998813}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1203093744, 998893}, NULL) = 0
poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN}], 1, 0) = 0
gettimeofday({1203093744, 999209}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1203093744, 999288}, NULL) = 0
poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN}], 1, 0) = 0
write(3, "\22\0\7\0\211\2\240\1\2\1\0\0\6\0\0\0 \4\5\0\1\0\0\0e\255"..., 28) = 28
ioctl(3, FIONREAD, [32]) = 0
read(3, "\34\7\354\27\211\2\240\1\2\1\0\0g\255\371\35\0\1\0\0\2"..., 32) = 32
poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN}], 1, 0) = 0
ioctl(3, FIONREAD, [0]) = 0
ioctl(3, FIONREAD, [0]) = 0
poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN}], 1, 0) = 0
write(3, "5\30\4\0\350\2\240\1\211\2\240\1\201\0\33\0\236\4\5\0\351"..., 1764) = 1764
ioctl(3, FIONREAD, [0]) = 0
poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN, revents=POLLIN}], 1, -1) = 1
ioctl(3, FIONREAD, [32]) = 0
read(3, "\5\1\6\30\232\255\371\35\211\0\0\0\214\2\240\1\0\0\0\000"..., 32) = 32
write(4, "VERSION 1\nSCHEME hkp\nHOST keyser"..., 135) = 135
exit_group(1) = ?
Process 5529 detached

[Adna rim (adnarim)]

Still unfixed in Hardy

[Stefan Lesicnik (stefanlsd)]

Gpa 0.7.6 was recently added to Ubuntu Intrepid. Is it possible to test with this version and let us know if this is still a bug for you? Thanks!

[Rorschach (r0rschach)]

I can confirm this bug with gpa 0.7.6 rev 777

[Duncan Bayne (dhgbayne)]

I can confirm this bug in Ubuntu Jaunty as well; it still uses GPA 0.7.6 777. Open for over a year :-(

Presumably the fix to this is to ship a GPG binary that's compiled with gpgkeys_ldap and gpgkeys_hkp? How do we go about co-ordinating that? Presumably the GPG package maintainers would need to be notified?

[Duncan Bayne (dhgbayne)]

That said, I'm not sure that the fix is as simple as compiling with gpgkeys_ldap and gpgkeys_hkp. I have installed the libldap2-dev package, and I can see the following in the output from "./configure" on the latest (1.4.9) GPG source:

checking whether LDAP via "-lldap" is present and sane... yes
checking for ldap_get_option... yes
checking for ldap_set_option... yes
checking for ldap_start_tls_s... yes
checking for ldap_start_tls_sA... no
checking whether HKP keyserver support is requested... yes

Having built and installed GPG from source with (AFAICT) LDAP and HKP enabled, I can use gpg from the CLI to send my key to an HKP server:

$ gpg --send-keys DXXXXXXX
gpg: sending key DXXXXXXX to hkp server keys.gnupg.net

... but GPA still crashes with "Invalid argument".

[lpad-r61 (lpad-r61)]

It's still a problem in Ubuntu 9.10.

[Daniel Leidert (dleidert-deactivatedaccount)]

Fixed in gpa 0.9.0.