[Pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#634930: gpa: GPA unusable due to "General Assuan error"

kardan kardan at riseup.net
Mon Jan 27 17:06:37 UTC 2014


Package: gpa
Version: 0.9.0-4
debian_version: 7.3

The following solution worked for me on wheezy (stable). Thanks, Joachim
Wiedorn, for the hint.

$ gpa # => "General Assuan error" + other messages as said in [1]
$ echo $GPG_AGENT_INFO
/home/user/.cache/keyring-kDmTeC/gpg:0:1
$ unset GPG_AGENT_INFO
$ gpa # => no error

According to the gpg manpage it appears safe to unset this value.

       GPG_AGENT_INFO
              Used to locate the gpg-agent.  This is only honored when
       --use-agent is set.  The value consists of 3 colon delimited
       fields: The first  is the  path  to  the Unix Domain Socket, the
       second the PID of the gpg-agent and the protocol version which
       should be set to 1. When starting the gpg-agent as described in
       its documentation, this variable is set to the correct value.
       The option  --gpg-agent-info  can  be  used  to override it.

Thanks for your work!

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=634930#130



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