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

[Raphael Hertzog]

On Sat, 27 Jun 2015, brian m. carlson wrote:
> No window appears during the signing attempt, whether it is successful
> or unsuccessful.

Can you "sudo strace -f -s 128 -p $(pidof gpg-agent)", try to sign
something and see if you can find an error message that looks like this
one in the output ?

[pid  9901] write(2, "\n** (pinentry:9901): WARNING **: couldn't create prompt for gnupg passphrase: Cannot autolaunch D-Bus without X11 $DISPLAY\n", 123) = 123

See my recent analysis in http://bugs.debian.org/795368.

My bet is that you have encountered the same problem as me.

Cheers,
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