gdm error in current rawhide

Jurgen Kramer gtm.kramer at inter.nl.net
Mon Jul 17 19:33:13 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 20:25 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
> > > > And a related (?) message from /var/log/messages:
> > > > Jul 14 06:50:58 osprey gdm[2204]: /usr/lib64/pkcs11/libcoolkeypk11.so:
> > > > cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> > > This should be a harmless message.  It just means that it tried to use
> > > the new smartcard security token support I added, but couldn't because
> > > you don't have smartcard support installed on your system.
> > >
> > > It's a confusing message though, I should probably change it to
> > > something like:
> > >
> > > "this system is not configured for smart card support, disabling..."
> > >
> > > or maybe just not log anything at all.
> > >
> > > --Ray
> > >
> > Just for the record. Does this newly added smart card support work with
> > the OpenPGP smartcards by any chance?
> 
> Not sure, it should do. I have one at home but i haven't had a chance
> to test it properly. It detects my openpgp smart card in my USB CCID
> Card reader (O2Micro on a Dell D620 - with user bogus firmware option
> turned on) as well as a couple of other cards I plugged in for testing
> but I haven't had a chance to go through the rest of the procedure to
> test (read/write etc).
> 
> Peter

Sounds promising! I hope that FC6's Evolution now knows how to use it
properly as well. With FC5 it does not seem to know that it needs to ask
for a passphrase when signing an email.

Jurgen

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