[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#787690: Bug#787690: pinentry-gtk2: always fails with "No passphrase given"

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

Control: tags 787690 + unreproducible moreinfo

Hi Brian--

Thanks for the report!

On Wed 2015-06-03 21:44:31 -0400, brian m. carlson wrote:
> Trying to sign any file fails with the following:
>
>   vauxhall no % gpg2 -b foo
>   gpg: signing failed: No passphrase given
>   gpg: signing failed: No passphrase given
>
> I'm prompted using pinentry-gtk2, and whether or not I select the option
> to integrate with the password manager, gpg produces the above error
> message.  I've killed all existing gpg-agent and dirmngr processes, but
> it still doesn't help.  I've also moved the gpg-agent.conf out of the
> way, which also doesn't help.

What version of gpg2 are you running?  which version of gnupg-agent?
I'm unable to reproduce this report with gpg2 version 2.1.4-1 (from
debian experimental) or with 2.0.28-1 from sid.

dirmngr shouldn't be relevant for this particular detached-signature
workflow.

> I've tried switching to pinentry-curses, which seems to work fine after
> the update to 0.9.3-2.  However, that isn't suitable for the general
> case, as I tend to use multiple terminal windows and GPG_TTY is not
> necessarily set.

pinentry-gtk2 should also fall back to curses if $DISPLAY is unset.

Does:

  DISPLAY= gpg2 -b foo

work for you as expected?

Regards,

     --dkg
     
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