Package: pinentry-gtk2
Version: 1.0.0-1
Followup-For: Bug #848999
I can confirm that behaviour, the pinentry-gtk2 window only flashes up shortly
and then closes, but pinenetry-ncurses and -gnome3 work fine. The last time it
worked for me was on Jan 1st 2017 with Enigmail. It also doesn't work for me
after a reboot, and I haven't changed anything related to my setup since then
(if you want to see, have a look at https://github.com/rohieb/dotfiles/tree/r2d2
;-))
Here's a session transcript:
$ sudo login
r2d2 login: rohieb
Password:
$ echo $GPG_TTY
/dev/pts/7
$ tty
/dev/pts/7
$ gpgconf --kill gpg-agent
$ ps -Af|grep gpg-agent
rohieb 23122 21990 0 02:43 pts/7 00:00:00 grep --color=auto
gpg-agent
$ echo foobar | gpg --sign
(at this point, pinentry-ncurses window pops up normally, but choosing "Cancel")
gpg: using "DD2C3FEA" as default secret key for signing
gpg: signing failed: Operation cancelled
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3Óòó¸gpg: signing failed: Operation cancelled
$
$ export DISPLAY=:0 XAUTHORITY=~/.Xauthority
$ echo foobar | gpg --sign
(pinentry-gtk2 window flashes up, closes directly)
gpg: using "DD2C3FEA" as default secret key for signing
gpg: signing failed: Operation cancelled
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3¥åç'%qgpg: signing failed: Operation cancelled
$
But maybe this is of interest, also with short window flashing as before:
$ echo GETPIN | pinentry-gtk-2
OK Pleased to meet you
** (pinentry-gtk-2:30108): CRITICAL **: could not grab keyboard: not
viewable (3)
** (pinentry-gtk-2:30108): WARNING **: it took 4097 tries to grab the
keyboard
** (pinentry-gtk-2:30108): WARNING **: it took 1795 tries to grab the
pointer
ERR 83886179 Operation cancelled <Pinentry>
$
However, my usual workaround for those keyboard grabbing errors (changing to a
tty, then changing back to X) did not solve that issue. Neither did export
GTK_IM_MODULE="", or killing ibus-daemon, to maybe work around ibus issues.
- Roland
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers testing-debug
APT policy: (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'testing'), (170, 'unstable'), (1,
'unstable-debug'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages pinentry-gtk2 depends on:
ii libassuan0 2.4.3-2
ii libc6 2.24-8
ii libglib2.0-0 2.50.2-2
ii libgpg-error0 1.25-2
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.31-1
ii libncursesw5 6.0+20161126-1
ii libsecret-1-0 0.18.5-2
ii libtinfo5 6.0+20161126-1
pinentry-gtk2 recommends no packages.
Versions of packages pinentry-gtk2 suggests:
ii pinentry-doc 1.0.0-1
-- no debconf information
