[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#923068: Bug#923068: pinentry-gtk2 takes more than twenty seconds to appear

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

Control: tags 923068 + moreinfo

Hi fc--

On Sat 2019-02-23 20:16:03 +0100, fc wrote:
> When pinentry-gtk2 is started, the input window appears after more
> than twenty seconds. For comparison pinentry-gnome3 and pinentry-qt
> appear in less than two seconds for the same request.

Can you take a look at https://bugs.debian.org/800032 to see whether
anything there looks like it might be a functioning workaround for you?

also, it's not clear to me whether you've tried pinentry-gtk2 directly,
or whether you're measuring a delay from the use of (for example) gpg or
gpgsm, via gpg-agent.

to test pinentry-gtk2 on its own, i'd recommend doing the following from
a terminal:

    echo getpin | pinentry-gtk-2

This should prompt you (immediately!) for a passphrase, and then echo
that passphrase to stdout.  for example:

    0 dkg at alice:~$ echo getpin | pinentry-gtk-2 
    OK Pleased to meet you
    D abvc
    OK
    0 dkg at alice:~$

Does that cause the delay for you?  If not, what steps *do* cause the
delay?

Regards,

         --dkg