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Michael

04 Mar, 2012 02:37 AM

I can right click in 'finder' on a .gpg .sig file and get the option to open it with the GPGServices.service.
However, if I want to encrypt a file like foo.txt, I can right click on it, but nothing related to GPG comes up as an option. I can choose 'other', but this just opens my finder window with the Applications directory and GPGTools/GPGService nor anything related is shown there.

I think I'm missing knowing how to access the basic gui interface to GPGTools/services.
I have looked at the preferences for it in the System preferences dialogue but these don't seem to help.

1. 1 Posted by Michael on 04 Mar, 2012 02:58 AM

   

   Well, I looked at the getting started tutorial again and see that what shows there in the system preferences is quite different from what I have. I have options to fix the gpg installation which I had tried and got feedback that seemed to show 4 things had been changed successfully. However, this hasn't solved the problem. It appears my problem is more complex involving a failed installation. I did not make a new key because I already had a pair as shown by GPG KeyChain app, which appears to verify the GPGTools dng sig. I will make a new key just to be tag this base.

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2. Support Staff 2 Posted by Steve on 04 Mar, 2012 01:01 PM

   

   Hey Michael, what you are looking at and referring to is the GPGPreferences (located in the System Preferences as a preference pane). What you want is the GPGServices.

   In our "First Steps"-Tutorial (http://support.gpgtools.org/kb/how-to/first-steps-where-do-i-start-...) there's also a screencast in which you can see, how to activate the GPGServices. The screencast is very fast, so make sure you watch the GPGServices part maybe twice - sorry for the speed rush in that screencast.

   As for broken installations: you can run the Installer from our nightlies page. Once mounted you'll also see an uninstaller: run that. Then re-install from the nightly. http://nightly.gpgtools.org/

   Let us know if that solves your problems.

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3. 3 Posted by docw on 04 Mar, 2012 09:40 PM

   

   Steve, thanks for your response. I had failed to continue the tutorial
   once I got to the section about email (I use thunderbird). Duh. It
   showed me how to use services and my problems are resolved using the
   stable distribution. (Who would ever have thought to look for services
   under 'keyboard')

   You may be interested to know that the ightly bundle install didn't work
   for me on OS X Lion 10.7.3) Here are the details:

   I downloaded the nightly.gpgtools.org GPGTools_Installer-trunk.dmg and
   ran the uninstaller. It reported that it could find "no receipt for
   org.gpgtools at '/'". (I'm pretty sure I had previously run the
   uninstaller and assume this simply means there is no gpgtools bundle to
   uninstall.) I then attempted to run the installer which shows all the
   usual signs of installing, asking for admin verification, through to
   "running package scripts" at which point it reported "Installation
   Failed" with a suggestion to try installing again. I tried again with
   the same result. I am running OS X Lion 10.7.3 and it's software
   updater reports my software is up to date.

   However, as I said, the stable distribution is working fine for me.
   thanks for your help.

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4. 4 Posted by Alex on 05 Mar, 2012 10:25 AM

   

   Interesting. Could you please provide us the installation log when the installer fails to install everything? While installing, please click on "Menu: Window > Installer Log" (or press CMD+L), switch to "Show All Logs".

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5. 5 Posted by docw on 05 Mar, 2012 04:16 PM

   

   Alex, I downloaded the 05-Mar-2012 00:40 gpgtools_installer-trunk.dmg
   which was newer than the one that failed for me yesterday. This
   installed successfully. I was not able to follow your directions to find
   the install log. I was unable to identify the 'menu' in your suggestion
   nor from what context to do a cmd-L tho I tried several. I did open
   the console application which shows a list of all system logs but was
   unable to find any log there relevant to gpgtools.

   Two other points:
   1.) This applies to both the stable and nightly version: When I click on
   the Uninstall choice (trash can icon) in the first installation window I
   get a dialogue about the Uninstall program and a choice to _open_ it.
   When I click on open, nothing happens. Using the lion gesture to view
   all my open windows in that workspace (4 fingers swipe up), I see no new
   window relevant to uninstalling -- just the initial Install/Uninstall
   window -- and it "appears" the "open" has done nothing. However, when
   I double click again on the trash can icon, then I get a window asking
   if I am sure I want to uninstall and after I click ok it reports the
   uninstall has been successful. Other users might not serendipitously
   guess to double click on the trash can a second time.

   2.) Yesterday, after my successful install of the stable gpgtools, I was
   able to use it for a while, adding keys, encrypting/decrypting etc. I
   did many things including changing my own default key from an old one to
   a new one and attempting to issue a revoke certificate for the old key
   and discovering thru a couple of trials that I no longer remembered it
   passphrase. I not sure that was relevant because I might then have done
   something else with gpgtools, But, then soon after I found that
   attempts to use gpgtools services to validate signatures and encrypt a
   text edit text resulted (after about a 30sec delay) in a message that
   the operation failed because the server failed to respond. The line
   oriented gpg interface was still working for those functions. My
   successful install of last nights trunk seems to have restored the services

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6. 6 Posted by Alex on 05 Mar, 2012 04:51 PM

   

   I was not able to follow your directions to find the install log.

   Does this help? http://www.gpgtools.org/images/InstallerLog.png

   [...]This applies to both the stable and nightly version: [...] [...] after about a 30sec delay[...]

   Unfortunately both are known OS X related restrictions. Thanks for the hints.

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7. 7 Posted by docw on 05 Mar, 2012 09:42 PM

   

   Yes, that helped a lot. However, all I found was the log related to
   this mornings successful install so it may not help you much to
   determine the cause of the failed install of yesterday's gpgtools
   nightly trunk:

   Mar 5 15:37:23 urCave-no2-2 Installer[34617]: @(#)PROGRAM:Install
   PROJECT:Install-686.3
   Mar 5 15:37:23 urCave-no2-2 Installer[34617]: @(#)PROGRAM:Installer
   PROJECT:Installer-530
   Mar 5 15:37:23 urCave-no2-2 Installer[34617]: Hardware: MacBookPro5,2 @
   2.66 GHz (x 2), 8192 MB RAM
   Mar 5 15:37:23 urCave-no2-2 Installer[34617]: Running OS Build: Mac OS
   X 10.7.3 (11D50b)
   Mar 5 15:37:23 urCave-no2-2 Installer[34617]: Env:
   PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
   Mar 5 15:37:23 urCave-no2-2 Installer[34617]: Env:
   TMPDIR=/var/folders/1z/clgk61jj6k79kkxx5p9yz7xw0000gn/T/
   Mar 5 15:37:23 urCave-no2-2 Installer[34617]: Env: SHELL=/bin/bash
   Mar 5 15:37:23 urCave-no2-2 Installer[34617]: Env: HOME=/Users/msw
   Mar 5 15:37:23 urCave-no2-2 Installer[34617]: Env: USER=msw
   Mar 5 15:37:23 urCave-no2-2 Installer[34617]: Env: LOGNAME=msw
   Mar 5 15:37:23 urCave-no2-2 Installer[34617]: Env:
   COM_GOOGLE_CHROME_FRAMEWORK_SERVICE_PROCESS/USERS/MSW/LIBRARY/APPLICATION_SUPPORT/GOOGLE/CHROME_SOCKET=/tmp/launch-OZm6xN/ServiceProcessSocket
   Mar 5 15:37:23 urCave-no2-2 Installer[34617]: Env:
   DISPLAY=/tmp/launch-5qLFCG/org.x:0
   Mar 5 15:37:23 urCave-no2-2 Installer[34617]: Env:
   SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/launch-n8qA1n/Listeners
   Mar 5 15:37:23 urCave-no2-2 Installer[34617]: Env:
   Apple_Ubiquity_Message=/tmp/launch-AfxI6H/Apple_Ubiquity_Message
   Mar 5 15:37:23 urCave-no2-2 Installer[34617]: Env:
   Apple_PubSub_Socket_Render=/tmp/launch-NMBeBp/Render
   Mar 5 15:37:23 urCave-no2-2 Installer[34617]: Env: COMMAND_MODE=unix2003
   Mar 5 15:37:23 urCave-no2-2 Installer[34617]: Env:
   __CF_USER_TEXT_ENCODING=0x1F5:0:0
   Mar 5 15:37:23 urCave-no2-2 Installer[34617]: GPGTools Installation Log
   Mar 5 15:37:23 urCave-no2-2 Installer[34617]: Opened from:
   /Volumes/GPGTools/GPGTools.mpkg
   Mar 5 15:38:20 urCave-no2-2 Installer[34617]: CheckPrefs: Host Prefs
   Mar 5 15:38:20 urCave-no2-2 Installer[34617]:
   afp_reconnect_allow: Yes
   Mar 5 15:38:20 urCave-no2-2 Installer[34617]:
   afp_mount_defaultFlags: 0
   Mar 5 15:38:20 urCave-no2-2 Installer[34617]:
   afp_reconnect_interval: 10, afp_reconnect_max_time: 600 secs
   Mar 5 15:38:20 urCave-no2-2 Installer[34617]: afp_debug_level:
   5, afp_debug_syslog: Yes
   Mar 5 15:38:20 urCave-no2-2 Installer[34617]:
   afp_host_prefs_version: 15
   Mar 5 15:38:20 urCave-no2-2 Installer[34617]:
   afp_active_timeout: 0, afp_idle_timeout: 0
   Mar 5 15:38:20 urCave-no2-2 Installer[34617]:
   afp_wan_threshold: 0, afp_wan_quantum: 0
   Mar 5 15:38:20 urCave-no2-2 Installer[34617]:
   afp_no_volChange_caching: 1, afp_no_kQueues: 0, afp_no_caseSensitiveVols: 0
   Mar 5 15:38:20 urCave-no2-2 Installer[34617]: afp_minFileCache:
   5, afp_maxFileCache: 60
   Mar 5 15:38:20 urCave-no2-2 Installer[34617]: afp_minDirCache:
   5, afp_maxDirCache: 60
   Mar 5 15:38:20 urCave-no2-2 Installer[34617]:
   afp_softmount_vols: No, afp_softautomount_vols: No
   Mar 5 15:38:20 urCave-no2-2 Installer[34617]:
   afp_forceKerberosOnly: No, afp_immutable_dirs: Yes
   Mar 5 15:38:20 urCave-no2-2 Installer[34617]:
   afp_allow_submounts: Yes, afp_prefer_IPv4: Yes
   Mar 5 15:38:20 urCave-no2-2 Installer[34617]:
   afp_minQuantumNbr: 0, afp_maxQuantumNbr: 0, afp_minQuantumSize: 0,
   afp_maxQuantumSize: 0
   Mar 5 15:38:20 urCave-no2-2 Installer[34617]:
   afp_minIOToleranceMSecs: 0, afp_maxIOToleranceMSecs: 0,
   afp_minSingleIOToleranceMSecs: 0, afp_maxSingleIOToleranceMSecs: 0
   Mar 5 15:38:20 urCave-no2-2 Installer[34617]:
   afp_allow_system_uams: No, afp_allow_user_uams: No
   Mar 5 15:38:20 urCave-no2-2 Installer[34617]: CheckPrefs: User Prefs
   Mar 5 15:38:20 urCave-no2-2 Installer[34617]:
   afp_login_displayGreeting: Yes
   Mar 5 15:38:20 urCave-no2-2 Installer[34617]:
   afp_keychain_search: Yes, afp_keychain_add: No
   Mar 5 15:38:20 urCave-no2-2 Installer[34617]:
   afp_voldlog_skipIfOnly: No
   Mar 5 15:38:20 urCave-no2-2 Installer[34617]:
   afp_cleartext_allow: No, afp_cleartext_warn: No
   Mar 5 15:38:20 urCave-no2-2 Installer[34617]:
   afp_use_default_name: No, afp_use_short_name: No
   Mar 5 15:38:20 urCave-no2-2 Installer[34617]: afp_default_name:
   (null)
   Mar 5 15:38:20 urCave-no2-2 Installer[34617]: afp_prefs_version: 15
   Mar 5 15:38:20 urCave-no2-2 Installer[34617]: FindValidIPAddress -
   socket 0, IPv4 10.0.1.1:548
   Mar 5 15:38:20 urCave-no2-2 Installer[34617]: FindValidIPAddress -
   socket 1, IPv6 [fe80:0:0:0:daa2:5eff:fe7b:953e]:548
   Mar 5 15:38:20 urCave-no2-2 Installer[34617]: FindValidIPAddress -
   connect worked socket 0
   Mar 5 15:38:20 urCave-no2-2 Installer[34617]: FindValidIPAddress -
   first valid address socket 0, family IPv4
   Mar 5 15:38:20 urCave-no2-2 Installer[34617]: FindValidIPAddress -
   prefered IPv4 address socket 0
   Mar 5 15:38:20 urCave-no2-2 Installer[34617]: GetGSSMechsFromSrvrInfo:
   kSupportsGSSMechTypes not set
   Mar 5 15:38:21 urCave-no2-2 Installer[34617]: FindValidIPAddress -
   socket 0, IPv4 10.0.1.1:548
   Mar 5 15:38:21 urCave-no2-2 Installer[34617]: FindValidIPAddress -
   socket 1, IPv6 [fe80:0:0:0:daa2:5eff:fe7b:953e]:548
   Mar 5 15:38:21 urCave-no2-2 Installer[34617]: FindValidIPAddress -
   connect worked socket 0
   Mar 5 15:38:21 urCave-no2-2 Installer[34617]: FindValidIPAddress -
   first valid address socket 0, family IPv4
   Mar 5 15:38:21 urCave-no2-2 Installer[34617]: FindValidIPAddress -
   prefered IPv4 address socket 0
   Mar 5 15:38:21 urCave-no2-2 Installer[34617]: GetGSSMechsFromSrvrInfo:
   kSupportsGSSMechTypes not set

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8. 8 Posted by docw on 05 Mar, 2012 09:47 PM

   

   Ok, I can live with the first problem of clicking on the uninstalling
   trashcan icon again after the first 'open'.

   However, won't the second problem of the server ceasing to respond
   (after whatever unspecified events) make gpgtools unusable on my os
   x. How can I avoid activating the 'server not responding problem',
   and is there a the workaround to get it responding again?

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9. 9 Posted by Alex on 05 Mar, 2012 10:45 PM

   

   Since OS X service are not allowed to run longer than 30 seconds there is nothing we can do about it (but usually a server should answer within 30 seconds anyway - not sure what the root cause is on your system, maybe an old keyserver?). We're considering to write an app (UI wise similar to getcloudapp.com) to replace the OS X service menu.

   Regarding the uninstaller: it opens after clicking on it after the first time. Have a look in the Dock (here it jumps till I click on it)

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10. 10 Posted by Alex on 06 Mar, 2012 06:18 AM

    

    Regarding the uninstaller: I was wrong. Fixed it in the latest uninstaller from nightly.gpgtools.org

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11. Alex closed this discussion on 06 Mar, 2012 06:18 AM.