[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#850708: Bug#850708: gpg: decryption failed: No secret key

[Vincent Lefevre]

Control: found -1 1.0.0-1

On 2017-01-10 18:26:57 -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> On Mon 2017-01-09 22:08:09 -0500, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > On 2017-01-09 18:00:14 -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> >> what happens if you do:
> >> 
> >>     gpg-connect-agent 'get_passphrase cacheval123 errorrmsg leadprompt description' /bye
> >> 
> >> this *should* throw up a password prompt in your graphical display.
> >
> > Most of the time:
> >
> > zira:~> gpg-connect-agent 'get_passphrase cacheval123 errorrmsg leadprompt description' /bye
> > ERR 83886179 Operation cancelled <Pinentry>
> >
> > Sometimes a pinentry window appears.
> 
> is the above quoted text an example of the pinentry window appearing
> or not?

With

  gpg-connect-agent 'get_passphrase cacheval123 errorrmsg leadprompt description' /bye

the pinentry window sometimes appears, but most often it doesn't.

> >> you can clear the same cached passphrase with:
> >> 
> >>     gpg-connect-agent 'clear_passphrase cacheval123' /bye
> >
> > If I do that first, I get the same error.
> 
> you get the "operation canceled" error?

Yes, each time the window doesn't appear, I get this error.

> what window manager are you using?

fvwm

> is there something else going on in your graphical session that
> might make pinentry-gtk-2 unable to grab the keyboard and pointer?
> are several of these things happening concurrently?

I was thinking of gromit, but even after killing it, the problem
remains.

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