From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NkIq8-0000zK-Gs for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:07:52 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 23D4EE0F2F for ; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:07:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from sentinel.math.Princeton.EDU (sentinel.math.Princeton.EDU [128.112.16.31]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A304EE0C67 for ; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:48:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from math.princeton.edu ([128.112.18.16]) by sentinel.math.Princeton.EDU with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NkIXW-0006eU-K1 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:48:39 -0500 Received: from math.Princeton.EDU (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by math.Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o1OEmc8q020084 for ; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:48:38 -0500 Received: (from wwong@localhost) by math.Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id o1OEmcR7020081 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:48:38 -0500 Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:48:38 -0500 From: Willie Wong To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gnupg fails to decrypt on kmail Message-ID: <20100224144838.GA19950@math.princeton.edu> References: <201002211450.13952.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <201002211532.03263.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <20100221170113.GA13574@math.princeton.edu> <201002220649.20267.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <358eca8f1002240331y3c54d445h5ce25783878f7dd1@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <358eca8f1002240331y3c54d445h5ce25783878f7dd1@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-Archives-Salt: 5d471ebd-e44c-4b7a-93c9-466b769038ef X-Archives-Hash: 6ade5ba8288541cd057943feb5a19e8a 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