From: Willie Wong <wwong@Math.Princeton.EDU>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gnupg fails to decrypt on kmail
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 06:18:54 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100225111854.GA6459@math.princeton.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201002250701.14226.michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 07:01:12AM +0000, Mick wrote:
> 2010-02-25 06:48:32 gpg-agent[6741] starting a new PIN Entry
> gpg-agent[6741]: can't connect server: `ERR 67109133 can't exec
> `/usr/bin/pinentry-qt': No such file or directory'
> 2010-02-25 06:48:32 gpg-agent[6741] can't connect to the PIN entry module: IPC
> connect call failed
<snip>
> Why is it trying to call /usr/bin/pinentry-qt?!
>
> `ERR 67109133 can't exec `/usr/bin/pinentry-qt'
>
> Is this a valid binary these days, or an older qt3 version? I think it should
> be /usr/bin/pinentry:
>
> $ ls -la /usr/bin/pinentry
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Feb 24 07:01 /usr/bin/pinentry -> pinentry-qt4
Looks like you found your problem. I am not absolutely sure why
pinentry-qt is the default now. The man page says that running
'gpg-agent --version' will tell you what the default pinentry program
it calls is, and that depends on installation. So maybe file a bug? I
don't know whether this is a configuration/USE issue or something
hardcoded in the distribution.
In any case, two work-arounds are available:
*) create a symlink of pinentry-qt to your actual pinentry binary.
*) start gpg-agent with the '--pinentry-program' option.
Cheers,
W
--
Willie W. Wong wwong@math.princeton.edu
Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire
et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-25 12:03 UTC|newest]
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
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 [this message]
2010-02-25 20:45 ` Mick
2010-02-26 1:08 ` Willie Wong
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