pcscd only runs fine in "--debug" mode

[Damiano Albani]

I've recently upgraded to 12.04/amd64 and now I can't use either my eToken Pro or e-gate card.
For exampe, a simple "opensc-tool -a" call fails if I do it twice in a row!?
See the log file that I attach as "report 1", made with OpenSC in debug mode.

Then I thought of running "pcscd" itself in debug mode, e.g.:
$ PCSCLITE_PCSCD_ARGS="--debug" opensc-tool -a

Immediately my problem disappeared: I can call "opensc-tool -a" as much as I want without error. Other OpenSC-provided "pkcs1{1,5}-tool" calls worked fine as well.
See the log file attached as "report 2".

Finally, I switched "pcscd" error reporting mode to "error", just as a test. And back again was I in trouble...
Same symptom, I can't call this more than one or two times in a row before if fails :
$ PCSCLITE_PCSCD_ARGS="--error" opensc-tool -a
See the log file attached as "report 3".

And running "pcscd --info" produced the same behavior as with "--error"!? Only "--debug" works correctly some (strange) reason.

[Ludovic Rousseau (ludovic-rousseau+ubuntu-one)]

From "report 3":
Nov 8 17:44:33 optiplex960 pcscd: winscard.c:316:SCardConnect() Error powering up card: -2146435050 0x80100016

The driver failed to power up the card.

I have no idea why the use of "--debug" would work better.
Can you follow http://pcsclite.alioth.debian.org/pcsclite.html#support to generate a complete pcscd trace?

[Damiano Albani (damiano-albani)]

Here's the log file generated using:
sudo LIBCCID_ifdLogLevel=0x000F pcscd --foreground --debug --apdu | tee log.txt

[Damiano Albani (damiano-albani)]

The trouble is that the behavior is somewhat erratic.
It sometimes work, it sometimes doesn't.

One thing I've just noticed though: when I run "pcscd" in the background, "opensc-tool -a" calls invariably fail.
However it works fine if I simply use "pcsd --foreground", regardless of the debug / error logging options.

How could I produce a log file of a background pcscd?

[Ludovic Rousseau (ludovic-rousseau-gmail)]

"Attempting startup of Axalto/Schlumberger/Gemalo egate token 00 00 using /usr/lib/pcsc/drivers/openct-ifd.bundle/Contents/Linux/openct-ifd.so"

You are using the OpenCT driver.

You should report the bug to OpenCT (openct package)