Bug #17169

Seahorse can't sync keys with keyservers: Request Entity Too Large

Added by intrigeri 2019-10-20 15:15:59 . Updated 2020-02-04 08:12:13 .

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wip/bugfix/17169-seahorse-key-sync+force-all-tests
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Description

Spotted by our test suite while working on Bug #12689. That’s the case:

  • with keys.openpgp.org’s Onion service (that my branch for Bug #12689 sets as the default)
  • in our test suite, when using keys.mayfirst.org as the backend

I can’t trivially reproduce this with hkp://jirk5u4osbsr34t5.onion but I think it depends on the keyserver that the pool will give us: as the keys.mayfirst.org issue shows, this problem is not specific to keys.openpgp.org.

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Related issues

Related to Tails - Bug #12689: gpg --recv-key often hangs due to unreliable keyserver Resolved 2017-06-13
Related to Tails - Bug #14770: "Fetching OpenPGP keys" scenarios are fragile: communication failure with keyserver Resolved 2017-10-04
Related to Tails - Feature #16531: Define our core code base In Progress 2019-03-05

History

#1 Updated by intrigeri 2019-10-20 15:16:12

  • related to Bug #12689: gpg --recv-key often hangs due to unreliable keyserver added

#2 Updated by intrigeri 2019-10-20 15:16:18

  • related to Bug #14770: "Fetching OpenPGP keys" scenarios are fragile: communication failure with keyserver added

#3 Updated by CyrilBrulebois 2019-12-03 11:32:01

As a data point (since it seems both our settings in the live environment and our test suite settings were updated, if I assembled the changelog correctly): still happening in the automated test suite for 4.1. Since that’s not a new issue, not considering that as a blocker, or as a bug to be documented.

features/torified_gnupg.feature:32 # Scenario: Syncing OpenPGP keys using Seahorse should work and be done over Tor.
features/torified_gnupg.feature:48 # Scenario: Syncing OpenPGP keys using Seahorse started from the OpenPGP Applet should work and be done over Tor.

#4 Updated by intrigeri 2020-02-04 08:12:13

  • Feature Branch set to wip/bugfix/17169-seahorse-key-sync+force-all-tests

I grew tired of filtering out this from test suite results, so I’ve removed the 2 affected scenarios from our test suite on the stable & devel branches (commit:6b7c5e6a5e9ff308286da049d166c28b0f8ba0df) and reverted this to bring them back on the WIP topic branch for this issue (commit:57212d3c4b091aa386e14d581e011611dc4efa10).

#5 Updated by intrigeri 2020-02-04 08:12:30