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

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On Fri 2019-03-01 16:54:45 +0100, fulvio ciriaco wrote:
> I opened another session from VT with startx and
> exec dbus-launch awesome
> and the delay reappeared.
>
> The delay does not reappear with
> exec awesome

ok, so it works without "dbus-launch".  in the scenario where you are
*not* using dbus-launch, what does:

   systemctl --user status dbus.service

show you?

if it's "active (running)" then i suspect the issue is that you were
running multiple dbus user sessions, and gpg-agent was connected to a
different dbus user session than the active gpg process.

In general, you want a single dbus user session.  so it sounds like
simplifying your .xsession is the way to go :)

I'm closing this bug report (though you can still comment on it if
you've got more followup) because it sounds like the diagnosis is:

     Deliberately running multiple concurrent dbus user sessions will
     confuse gpg-agent and gpg.

and the resolution is:

     Do not start up a separate dbus user session!

If you find that the removal of dbus-launch from your ~/.xsession is a
problem, and not something you can sustain going forward, please re-open
this bug report and explain what incompatibilities you're running into,
so we can try to figure it out further.

thanks all for your testing and diagnosis and feedback here!

   --dkg
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