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List:       kdepim-users
Subject:    Re: [kdepim-users] Problem with pinentry
From:       Carsten Burghardt <burghardt () kde ! org>
Date:       2004-05-31 9:28:36
Message-ID: 200405311128.37261.burghardt () kde ! org
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On Monday 31 May 2004 00:52, Miles Sabin wrote:
> This is with pinentry-0.6.8 from Konstruct for KDE 3.2.2, and gnupg
> 1.2.4 ...
>
> When I try to perform the gpg/agent test described here,
>
>   http://kmail.kde.org/kmail-pgpmime-howto.html
>
> ie,
>
>   echo "test" | gpg -ase -r <my key here> | gpg
>
> pinentry-qt flashes up for a couple of seconds then exits without giving
> me a chance to enter my passphrase. gpg then reports,
>
>   gpg: problem with the agent - disabling agent use
>
> and falls back to prompting me for the passphrase on the console.
>
> I've checked the obvious things (gpg-agent running; GPG_AGENT_INFO set
> properly; use-agent set in gpg.conf; -d switch added to
> pinentry-program in gpg-agent.conf in the hope of see some useful
> diagnostics) and can't see anything problematic.
>
> Does anyone have an idea how to fix this? Any clues would be most
> welcome.

Does pinentry-gtk work? Certain versions of pinentry-qt are buggy.
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