On Saturday, 20 February 2021 15:22:45 GMT tastytea wrote: > Hi! > A short while ago, pinentry-gtk2 was removed from > app-crypt/pinentry. Around the same time, app-crypt/gnupg was > updated. Since then, I can not use the gpg-agent from whithin Emacs > (--deamon) anymore. When I commit something with Magit, I get no > password dialog but this error message instead: > > error: gpg failed to sign the data > > After I add the key to the agent in another way (with `echo "test" | gpg > --clearsign` for example), it works in Emacs again. So it seems that > there is something wrong with my pinentry setup. > > I tried pinentry-gnome3 and pinentry-qt5, it makes no > difference. GPG_AGENT_INFO is known to Emacs. > > This is my ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf: > > default-cache-ttl 43200 > max-cache-ttl 86400 > default-cache-ttl-ssh 21600 > max-cache-ttl-ssh 86400 > pinentry-program /usr/bin/pinentry
I have the same entry in my gpg-agent.conf and it works fine, but I do not use emacs. > Does anybody know what the problem might be? > > Kind regards, tastytea My /usr/bin/pinentry is linked to pinentry-qt: $ ls -la /usr/bin/pinentry lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Jun 21 2019 /usr/bin/pinentry -> pinentry-qt You could set this manually, or with eselect, or I think your desktop environment will set it for you.
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