I have just received a new nitrokey start. I am trying to set it up, but am having trouble getting it properly working. I have tried both a debian stretch and a ubuntu bionic system
First action was to install the nitrokey app, the version I installed was v1.2.1. This didn’t work at all, because it only created a notification saying “Nitrokey app active”, but there was no way to get at the window, which is apparantly a bug with this version if you have no tray.
I then decided to compile a more recent version from source. Checked out the repo, selected the v1.3.2 branch and built a package. This did initially fail because the file data/41-nitrokey.rules is missing from the repository. I then copied it from the installed files from the previous version and managed to build and install the package. Now I actually get a window. It doesn’t work, however, since it shows “nitrokey is disconnected” and all the options are greyed out.
gpg does seem to recognize the device alright. gpg --card-status shows some output and a red led on the device flashes shortly.
Since I also read somewhere that these problems sometimes can be fixed with a firmware update, I have tried this by cloning the repository and executing the commands in the README. I am trying the following command:
./upgrade_by_passwd.py ../prebuilt/RTM.5/regnual.bin ../prebuilt/RTM.5/gnuk.bin
This results in the following error:
*** Could not proceed with the update. Please close other applications, that possibly use it (e.g. scdaemon, pcscd) and try again.
It does not matter whether I try this with, or without, sudo. While there is an scdaemon process, killing it doesn’t make the least bit of difference.
What can I do t start using my nitrokey?