Hi Daniel : On 16/06/14 23:59, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > Hi Philip-- > > over on enigmail-users, > On 06/16/2014 09:58 AM, Philip Jackson wrote: >> me@me-desktop:~$ gpg --sign test-message >> >> You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for >> user: "Philip Jackson <philip.jack...@nordnet.fr>" >> 2048-bit RSA key, ID 23543A63, created 2013-01-22 >> (here I entered the passphrase) >> gpg: problem with the agent - disabling agent use >> gpg: can't open `test-message': No such file or directory >> gpg: signing failed: file open error >> >> I tried a couple of times - same both times. >
I'm green in many ways, Daniel, but I did think to create a 'test-message' file and in case I had a path problem, I tried it in different sub-directories. > is there a file named "test-message" ? you can find out with: > > ls -l test-message > > > If that doesn't exist, you can create a simple text file with "example" > in it with: > > echo example > test-message > >> command gpg-agent shows "gpg-agent: gpg-agent running and available" > > are you doing this from within a terminal emulator in a graphical > environment, or are you doing this entirely from a text-mode virtual > terminal? In UbuntuStudio, the terminal icon on the desktop says it's a "Terminal Emulator - Use the command line" These terminals can be opened in multiple ways but each time it is basically from the graphical environment. > > You might do better to debug this problem with gpg over on gnupg-users > (i've cc'ed them here). If you want to follow up on that mailing list, > you'll probably need to subscribe first at: > > http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users Thank you for this link and the suggestion. I'll get on to it when the day's affairs are over. Philip > > hth, > > --dkg >
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