[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#839547: gnupg: unable to decrypt file

Paul Rogé proge at riseup.net
Tue Oct 4 20:32:23 UTC 2016


Hi Daniel,

> how are you running this?  you said earlier this is rxvt-unicode,
> but inside of what kind of graphical environment?  Can do you know
> how gpg-agent was started?

I'm using  dwm (6.1-3 amd64)

> How is gpg-agent started?  What happens if you kill gpg-agent and
> then try the decryption command again immediately?
> 
> gpgconf --kill gpg-agent
> gpg --decrypt FILENAME

gpgconf --kill gpg-agent
gpg --decrypt file.gpg
gpg: encrypted with 2048-bit RSA key, ID 3A2B8EB7865452A1, created
2014-02-28
      "Paul Rogé <proge at riseup.net>"
gpg: public key decryption failed: Operation cancelled
gpg: decryption failed: No secret key



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