[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#930062: enigmail: Engimail decrypt-passphrase window takes control of desktop

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On Tue 2019-07-09 11:58:46 +0200, Emmanuel Revah wrote:
> I've followed these steps carefully, on 2 computers, both on Debian 
> Buster, 64 bit. The only thing that seems logic to me is that there 
> might be an issue with pinentry-qt itself.
>
> If I remove all pinentry-* except for qt and clean gpg-agent.conf file 
> (remove pinentry conf) I get the error "ERR 67108949 No pinentry <GPG 
> Agent>".
>
> Any combination of either, only having pinentry-qt installed, or the 
> config file pointing to it, will result in this error.

this sounds very frustrating, i'm sorry to hear it.

I just ran the following test that uses an empty GnuPG homedir:

    GNUPGHOME=$(mktemp -d)
    cat > "$GNUPGHOME/gpg-agent.conf" <<EOF
    pinentry-program $(which pinentry-qt)
    log-file $GNUPGHOME/gpg-agent.log
    debug 1024
    debug-pinentry
    EOF
    export GNUPGHOME
    gpg-connect-agent 'GET_CONFIRMATION Hello' /bye

And it works for me -- i get a graphical QT popup window.

> I can use pinentry-qt to get a dialog window, it just does not work with 
> GPG in my case.
>
> If this isn't a bug (PEBKAC is always an option for me) or can't be 
> fixed, I will just use fltk or gtk2 and I'll be fine. If you'd like me 
> to try out more things, let me know.

Could you try out the test above?  Once you run it, if it gives you an
error, could you look at $GNUPGHOME/gpg-agent.log ?

       --dkg
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