[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#800032: pinentry-gnome3: Pinentry hangs for ~30s before asking for passphrase when invoked by Enigmail

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On Tue 2016-11-01 11:49:29 -0400, Ondřej Kuzník wrote:
> On 17/10/16 21:01, Simon McVittie wrote:
>> On Mon, 17 Oct 2016 at 12:35:21 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
>>> On Mon 2016-10-17 09:27:14 -0400, Ondřej Kuzník wrote:
>>>> Hmm, for some reason I have two dbus-daemons running and the one started
>>>> by ck-launch-session is the one where pinentry is having problems.
>> 
>> What is in their argv? (/proc/*/cmdline)
>> 
>> Is ck-launch-session something to do with ConsoleKit? If so, it's probably
>> a bad idea at this point.
>
> Yes, this comes from a time when suspending the system and
> network-manager operations wouldn't work otherwise since the session
> wouldn't know how to authenticate me. Apparently that hack is not
> necessary anymore.
>
>> Is there anything interesting in syslog (or equivalently the systemd
>> Journal)? Recent dbus versions log a lot more there than they used to.
>> 
>> I hope something here has pointed you in an informative direction.
>
> Thanks for the hints, making sure that I don't start the second daemon
> lets everything use the right one and pinentry comes up immediately.
>
> This was then self-inflicted and not a problem in any software involved.

Thanks for the followup here, Ondřej.  I'm closing this bug report, but
feel free to re-open it if you have any suggestions for how any of the
involved software could be improved to avoid similar problems in the
future.

Regards,

        --dkg
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