On 01/09/14 07:37:45, Werner Koch wrote: > On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 16:00, paul.le...@quadensemble.com said: > > > I'd like to use the card manager function, but whenever I invoke it > > the application returns the error "Error accessing the card", and > > the status bar reports "Checking for card .. " > > I have actually thank you for raising this issue: >
My pleasure. > The problem is that the gnome-keyring-dameon hijacks the inter > process communication (IPC) between gpg and gpg-agent. It > implements a very limited set of commands of gpg-agent but nothing > more. Recent versions of GnuPG detect this and show a warning > message or pop-up to tell you just this. > > Depending on the version of gnome-keyring-daemon, it is possible to > disable the gpg-agent hijacking component. I would be interested in how to accomplish this. If you can point me to a thread or reference in the gnupg manual, that would be appreciated. > Unfortunately it is hard > to convince the maintainer to disable this mis-features. > So Gnome breaks gnupg-agent and they will not fix it? > See the mail thread starting with this mail for details: > > http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-devel/2014-August/028689.html > > > I presume, the system is misconfigured is some way. Any one got any > > suggestions? > > You may want to bring this to the attention of your Linux > distribution. The solution could be easy: The gpg-agent component > needs to be disabled when build gnome-keyring-daemon: > > ./configure --disable-gpg-agent I prefer the gpg-agent UI. Anyway, Seahorse doesn't seem to know about smart cards so the whole reason I posted, to see my smart card in the card display of gpa is defeated if I disable gpg-agent. Unless I have the wrong end of the stick? Regards _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users