Hi Bob,
Linux Mint Debian Edition (and the other editions) is a "frankendebian"
nominally based on Debian testing. Here is some information about it:
https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian. There has been plenty of
deserved criticism of the Linux Mint developers for their sloppy
practices at the expense of users. It causes instability and the Mint
developers have to hold back crucial security updates and the like;
these attitudes do not look like they are going to change any time soon.
I would recommend switching to regular Debian, which includes Cinnamon,
and stable is well tested. You could also switch to Ubuntu LTS, which
works well too (although it has issues I'm not going to go into here) or
Fedora. LMDE is not production ready (and neither are the other editions
of Linux Mint), even if it looks pretty.
Another explanation is due to some strange behaviour due to the current
state of Debian testing, or at least the snapshot that LMDE is based on
at the moment. The error is likely reasonably accurate - Debian is
currently migrating to gpg 2.x from 1.4. They have put testing on freeze
right now though so they can start working towards Debian stable now, so
this explanation is less likely than the above. I'm not familiar enough
with LMDE, it should be noted, however.
Another explanation might be due to gpg-agent not playing well with
Gnome. There are known issues with this; basically Gnome's own crypto
agent conflicts with GnuPG's agent. I'm not sure to what extent Cinnamon
(I assume that is the desktop environment you are using) has problems
with gpg-agent, but Cinnamon does use Gnome programs and frameworks to a
great extent, so this is a possibility.
Regards,
D
On 21.11.2016 17:21, Bob Henson wrote:
Having used it before with no problems, I am getting an error using
Enigmail/GnuPG2 on Thunderbird running under a new install of Linux
Mint
Debian Edition. All appears welluntil I come to send a message and I
get
the error message:-
"GnuPG reports an error in the communication with gpg-agent (a
component
of GnuPG)." "This is a system setup or configuration error that
prevents
Enigmail from working properly and cannot be fixed automatically."
I have had similar errors in the past concerning gpg-agent, but
Enigmail
has gone on to work correctly - presumably using the Linux key-ring?
I'm
not too technical, so I'm not quite sure why this error hasarisen when
it never did before. Can you tell me where I should start looking for
an
answer - LMDE, Enigamil, or GnuPG?
Regards,
Bob
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