[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#851462: gpg-agent: a gpg-agent is already running - not starting a new one

[Dominik George]

Control: severity -1 normal

> gpgconf --kill gpg-agent kills the agent. I can also manually kill it.
> 
> But, no matter what I do, gpg-agent --daemon always says:
> 
> gpg-agent: a gpg-agent is already running - not starting a new one
> 
> Even if really nothing remotely resembling a gpg-agent is running.

OK, I found out this is because the systemd gpg-agent socket restarts
the agent once gpg-agent tries to start up manually…

I don't know if it is a bug, but it's somehow strange and really
annoying behaviour.

Stopping all systemd user services for gpg-agent helps.

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