[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#790316: pinentry-gnome3: sometimes refuses to provide passphrase to agent

[brian m. carlson]

On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 11:02:34PM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote:
> From time to time, pinentry-gnome3 refuses to provide the passphrase
> stored in gnome-keyring to the agent.  An abbreviated transcript of the
> session follows (from gpg --debug-all -b FILE):

This always occurs for me when first logging in.  It occurs for both SSH
and OpenPGP keys.  For example, attempting to add an SSH key to the
agent with ssh-add results in an SSH_AGENT_FAILURE message (if the
pinentry tries to prompt for a passphrase to encrypt the key with).  It
also prevents signatures with OpenPGP keys.  Again, killing the
gpg-agent is always effective.

Since it occurs so consistently, I'm happy to provide more debugging
output or test any potential solutions if that's helpful.
-- 
brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US
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