On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 02:35:28PM +1100, Sam Jorna wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 09:34:21AM +0700, gro...@gentoo.org wrote:
> > On Sun, 11 Dec 2016, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote:
> > > On 12/11/2016 03:13 PM, gro...@gentoo.org wrote:
> > >> gpg: signing failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
> > > this might indicate a want for export GPG_TTY=$(tty)
> > I don't understand what has really happened. I removed my last commit, an 
> > attempt to commit it again failed with gpg: signing failed. Then I logged 
> > out of the box on which I have the git tree (I log in this box via ssh), 
> > and logged in again. After that the commit succeeded.
> 
> I was also getting some odd issues with commit signing, though it seemed 
> to settle for me when I switched to pinentry-curses (since I use 
> awesome), so I figured it was probably a local issue. Perhaps there's a 
> wider problem here?

If anyone else is getting this, it seems to be resolved by exporting 
GPG_TTY=$(tty) either immediately before attempting to sign or in your 
shell ~/.*rc file.

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Sam Jorna (wraeth)
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