[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#577737: [pinentry-qt4] Re: gpg command won't use agent if the agent is configured to use pinentry-qt4

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On Thu 2016-10-13 14:09:16 -0400, OmegaPhil wrote:
> Enigmail is v1.9.5 via Get Addons (rather than the Debian package).
>
> I started playing with dirmngr.conf but then I realised you meant
> gpg-agent.conf ;).

thanks, yes, you are correct :)

> As soon as I did a killall to have gpg-agent load the new
> configuration and try again, it worked - I know that gpg2 stuff has
> updated recently, and my uptime is ~11d, so perhaps the update scripts
> don't kill off gpg-agent when theres some incompatible change?

That's right, the package upgrade scripts make no attempt to restart
long-running user processes, for reasons i suspect you can imagine :)

Can you review /var/log/dpkg.log to see what versions of gpg-agent you
might have been running initially?  I'm glad it's working for you now,
anyway, though i'm still in the dark as to why it wasn't working for you
before.

     --dkg
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