From: Willie Wong <wwong@Math.Princeton.EDU>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gnupg fails to decrypt on kmail
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:48:38 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100224144838.GA19950@math.princeton.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <358eca8f1002240331y3c54d445h5ce25783878f7dd1@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 11:31:34AM +0000, Mick wrote:
> Since invoking gpg on the CLI does not ask for a passphrase and it returns:
>
> gpg: problem with the agent: No pinentry
>
> I assume that the problem is with pinentry. Is there some other
> application involved here that I should look into?
pinentry is the standalone package to asks for the passphrase for gpg.
Try up'ing the verbosity on gpg? E.g. run `gpg -vv' on your CLI and
post full output (modulo anything sensitive, of course)?
(Also, a stupid question: at any point did you rebuild gpg? Did you
restart the gpg-agent afterwards?)
Cheers,
W
--
Willie W. Wong wwong@math.princeton.edu
Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire
et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-21 14:50 [gentoo-user] gnupg fails to decrypt on kmail Mick
2010-02-21 15:08 ` Willie Wong
2010-02-21 15:32 ` Mick
2010-02-21 17:01 ` Willie Wong
2010-02-22 6:49 ` Mick
2010-02-24 11:31 ` Mick
2010-02-24 14:48 ` Willie Wong [this message]
2010-02-24 15:03 ` Willie Wong
2010-02-24 22:51 ` Mick
2010-02-25 0:09 ` Willie Wong
2010-02-25 7:01 ` Mick
2010-02-25 11:18 ` Willie Wong
2010-02-25 20:45 ` Mick
2010-02-26 1:08 ` Willie Wong
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