[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#911768: Bug#911768: pinentry-gnome3 fails to open a window with 'No Gcr System Prompter available, falling back to curses'

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

Hi Tiziano--

On Wed 2018-10-24 17:24:33 +0200, Tiziano Zito wrote:
> pinentry-gnome3 (but also pinentry-gtk-2) does not open a window anymore to ask for a passphrase. If run from terminal it shows:
>
> No Gcr System Prompter available, falling back to curses
> OK Pleased to meet you
>
> It was working fine since years. Of the packages pinentry-gnome3 depends on, I have only upgraded recently libgpg-error0,  libncursesw6, libtinfo6.
> Even downgrading libgpg-error0 to 1.32-1 does not fix the issue.

hmm, looking at the installed packages:

> Versions of packages pinentry-gnome3 depends on:
> ii  gcr              3.28.0-1
> ii  libassuan0       2.5.1-2
> ii  libc6            2.27-6
> ii  libgcr-base-3-1  3.28.0-1
> ii  libglib2.0-0     2.58.1-2
> ii  libgpg-error0    1.32-3
> ii  libncursesw6     6.1+20181013-1
> ii  libsecret-1-0    0.18.6-3
> ii  libtinfo6        6.1+20181013-1
>
> Versions of packages pinentry-gnome3 recommends:
> pn  dbus-user-session  <none>

can you try installing dbus-user-session, then log out and log back in
and let me know whether it works in that case?

Regards,

    --dkg
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