Bug #6206

Cannot enter passphrase in pinentry when Korean language is selected

Added by intrigeri 2013-07-30 05:50:06 . Updated 2013-12-11 10:05:10 .

Status:
Resolved
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
Category:
Internationalization
Target version:
Start date:
2013-07-30
Due date:
% Done:

0%

Feature Branch:
winterfairy:bugfix/ibus
Type of work:
Code
Blueprint:

Starter:
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Affected tool:
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Description

  1. Boot Tails
  2. Select Korean language in the greeter (한국어)
  3. Run whatever operation that opens the pinentry dialog (e.g. gpg --symmetric)
  4. Try to type a passphrase

=> no char placeholder (star) is displayed in the passphrase box.

Subtasks

History

#1 Updated by winterfairy 2013-11-03 02:26:47

Still happens in Tails 0.21.
No keypresses are registered by pinentry, not even ENTER.

Changing keyboard layout with setxkbmap does not solve it. Enabling/disabling the input method doesn’t affect it. Unsetting GTK_IM_MODULE and XMODIFIER doesn’t help either.

Workaround for gpg: gpg —no-use-agent

#2 Updated by winterfairy 2013-11-03 05:12:28

This affects Japanese and Chinese as well!

And quick searching in Nautilus by just start typing does not work either for these locales, which makes me believe this is not pinentry specific.

#3 Updated by intrigeri 2013-11-03 06:33:15

We’ll likely have to switch to an entirely different input method for Wheezy, so I doubt it’s worth working on this on our Squeeze branch. This would only delay our long awaited Wheezy release. So, I would suggest attacking this with Feature #5487, and then we can see if this problem is automagically solved in Wheezy or not.

#4 Updated by winterfairy 2013-11-04 07:20:35

Agree. For starters I will test if switching input method solves the problem.

#5 Updated by winterfairy 2013-11-04 09:24:12

  • Assignee set to winterfairy

Removing SCIM makes pinentry work again.
And it still works after installing IBus and writing using it.

Replacing SCIM with IBus seems to be the way to solve the problem :)

#6 Updated by intrigeri 2013-11-06 05:07:31

  • Status changed from Confirmed to In Progress

#7 Updated by winterfairy 2013-11-07 02:03:33

Fixed in branch “bugfix/ibus” in my repo “winterfairy/tails”.

#8 Updated by intrigeri 2013-11-07 03:46:33

  • Assignee changed from winterfairy to intrigeri
  • QA Check set to Ready for QA
  • Feature Branch set to winterfairy:bugfix/ibus

#9 Updated by intrigeri 2013-11-07 04:41:53

  • Status changed from In Progress to Fix committed
  • Assignee deleted (intrigeri)
  • QA Check changed from Ready for QA to Pass

Merged in devel, pending for 0.22.

#10 Updated by intrigeri 2013-12-11 10:05:10

  • Status changed from Fix committed to Resolved