[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#842015: Bug#842015: Similar issue, no emacs

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

Hi Eduard--

thanks for commenting on https://bugs.debian.org/842015.

On Mon 2016-10-31 20:04:50 -0400, Eduard Bloch wrote:

> this has been happening to me for a couple of days now. Restarting
> gpg-agent does not help.

Are you saying that gpg is unable to use any secret key material,
reproducibly, for several days?  or that it's intermittent for you?

> Sometimes it hangs when doing signing locally (DISPLAY is normal,
> running from terminal). Right now it's happening when I try to use gpg
> on a remote machine accessed via SSH. Happens with mutt, and also with
> dpkg-buildpackage.

does it also happen with gpg on its own (without mutt, without
dpkg-buildpackage)?  What version of gnupg is installed?

What's going on on the rest of the system?  Does this machine have
dbus-user-session installed?  What version of pinentry is configured by
default?  How is gpg-agent being restarted (you mentioned "Restarting
gpg-agent")?

Thanks for any details you can provide,

     --dkg