[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#850708: Bug#850708: gpg: decryption failed: No secret key

Vincent Bernat bernat at debian.org
Tue Jan 17 19:21:05 UTC 2017


 ❦ 17 janvier 2017 12:13 +0100, Vincent Lefevre <vincent at vinc17.net> :

>> I have the same behaviour with awesome. My setup didn't change since
>> quite some time but this behaviour is recent while neither awesome nor
>> pinentry-gtk2 has been updated. I got the behavior immediately after
>> rebooting. Applying the patch from Werner doesn't fix the problem for
>> me.
>
> What warning and error messages do you get with the following test?
>
>   echo getpin | pinentry-gtk-2
>
> (This is the one suggested by GI, the easiest way to reproduce the bug
> and get the warning and error messages.)

Here is the output I get:

OK Pleased to meet you

** (pinentry-gtk-2:21583): CRITICAL **: could not grab keyboard: not viewable (3)

** (pinentry-gtk-2:21583): WARNING **: it took 4097 tries to grab the keyboard

** (pinentry-gtk-2:21583): WARNING **: it took 990 tries to grab the pointer
ERR 83886179 Operation cancelled <Pinentry>
-- 
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