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

Vincent Bernat bernat at debian.org
Tue Jan 17 19:51:41 UTC 2017


Control: clone -1 -2
Control: retitle -2 pinentry-gtk-2 frequently fails to grab the keyboard under awesome

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 ❦ 17 janvier 2017 20:34 +0100, Vincent Lefevre <vincent at vinc17.net> :

>> ** (pinentry-gtk-2:21583): CRITICAL **: could not grab keyboard: not viewable (3)
>> 
>> ** (pinentry-gtk-2:21583): WARNING **: it took 4097 tries to grab the keyboard
>> 
>> ** (pinentry-gtk-2:21583): WARNING **: it took 990 tries to grab the pointer
>> ERR 83886179 Operation cancelled <Pinentry>
>
> This is a different bug (or not a bug at all). The problem you have is
> that it cannot grab the keyboard (while this bug was about an incorrect
> test about the pointer grab), and all the expected 4096 tries are done.
> This may not be enough (IMHO the tries should be time-based, with a
> nanosleep between them, until some timeout).

OK, let me clone this bug and continue from here.
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