Lubuntu Daily ISO (May 19) QtPass error "GnuPG not found"

[Eric Adams]

SUMMARY
Due to varying expectations about the state of gpg and gpg2, QtPass produces an error on launch.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
Launch QtPass on Lubuntu 19.10 (daily, as of 19 May)

EXPECTED RESULTS
Launching QtPass succeeds without error.

ACTUAL RESULTS
Launching QtPass results in an error "GnuPG not found."

WORKAROUND
 1. Install gnupg2
 2. In ~/.config/IJHack/QtPass.conf, set gptExecutable=/usr/bin/gpg2

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ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.10
Package: qtpass 1.2.3-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.0.0-13.14-generic 5.0.6
Uname: Linux 5.0.0-13-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu27
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.407
CurrentDesktop: LXQt
Date: Mon May 20 03:37:06 2019
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/qtpass
LiveMediaBuild: Lubuntu 19.10 "Eoan Ermine" - Alpha amd64 (20190519)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=C.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 TERM=qterminal
SourcePackage: qtpass
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)]

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1829693

[Dan Simmons (kc2bez)]

Thank you for submitting your report. I can confirm this behavior on a 19.10 install of Lubuntu. I can also confirm that it works properly on a 19.04 install of Lubuntu and it works properly on a 19.10 install of Kubuntu.

[Philip Rinn (rinni)]

Uh, that's pretty strange as the posted Dependencies.txt clearly shows gpg as dependency.

Could you post the content of ~/.config/IJHack/QtPAss.conf

and the results from

which gpg2
which gpg
which pass

[You need to open a terminal and paste the three lines there]

Thanks!

[Philip Rinn (rinni)]

And can you confirm, that installing the package "gnupg2" fixes the problem?

[Philip Rinn (rinni)]

Alternatively you could change

gpgExecutable=/usr/bin/gpg2

to

gpgExecutable=/usr/bin/gpg

in ~/.config/IJHack/QtPAss.conf

[Philip Rinn (rinni)]

See also a corresponding upstream bug: https://github.com/IJHack/QtPass/issues/433

[apt-ghetto (apt-ghetto)]

Hi @rinni,

On Lubuntu 19.10, the value for gpgExecutable in ~/.config/IJHack/QtPass.conf is not set.
After installing gnupg2 and moving/deleting ~/.config/IJHack/QtPass.conf and starting QtPass, it recreates the config file with gptExecutable=/usr/bin/gpg2 and it works.

After git grepping:
I guess, the problem starts in https://github.com/IJHack/QtPass/blob/master/src/qtpasssettings.cpp#L289
Interesting: https://github.com/IJHack/QtPass/blob/master/src/configdialog.cpp#L241

[guenter (guenterk)]

I had the same problem with qtpass on Lubuntu 19.10 and solved it by adding the value '/usr/bin/gpg' to the empty 'gpgExecutable' entry in the config file '~/.config/IJHack/QtPass.conf'.

Maybe this remark is useful: I tried to install gpg2 but there is no such package, only gpg. And this is of version 2.

gpg --version
gpg (GnuPG) 2.2.12
libgcrypt 1.8.4
...

[ԜаӀtеr Ⅼарсһуnѕkі (wxl)]

https://github.com/IJHack/QtPass/commit/7f8136e4f08baea281cef62393ff75616ce09c74
and
https://github.com/IJHack/QtPass/commit/827a7104cebace94802dc479e2f3ae7564a99469
seem to be fixes as with those changes gpg2 is specifically called out.

Both are in 1.3.0 (https://github.com/IJHack/QtPass/releases/tag/v1.3.0) which is in Debian bullseye (https://packages.debian.org/source/bullseye/qtpass), so it seems this is but a sync away.

[ԜаӀtеr Ⅼарсһуnѕkі (wxl)]

I'm also really confused as to why gpg itself isn't at least a recommend or a suggest or something. Seems pretty darn essential.

And from what I can tell calling gpg on all supported releases at time of writing sans Xenial had the effect of invoking gpg version 2. Cosmic uniquely had a /usr/bin/gpg2 → gpg symlink from the gnupg2 package while gpg came from the gpg package. Xenial had both gpg and gpg2. It's all a ridiculous mess.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package qtpass - 1.3.0-2

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qtpass (1.3.0-2) unstable; urgency=medium

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