Re: Restarting gnupg-agent inside X session

2011-03-01 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 1 Mar 2011 02:41, da...@systemoverlord.com said: Other than on systems where $HOME is on a filesystem that does not support sockets (e.g., NFS/CIFS/etc.), is anyone aware of an issue with the use of --use-standard-socket? Seems like it would make restarting GnuPG 2.1 will use

Re: Restarting gnupg-agent inside X session

2011-03-01 Thread Marco Steinacher
Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: On 02/28/2011 06:49 PM, David Tomaschik wrote: Each process has its own copy of the environment inherited from its parent, so it's not possible to change the GPG_AGENT_INFO variable for all processes. You could start gpg-agent with --use-standard-socket, and

Restarting gnupg-agent inside X session

2011-02-28 Thread Marco Steinacher
Hi, I use a OpenPGP smartcard with gnupg 2.0.14 and Ubuntu for different tasks. From time to time I face the following problem: The gpg-agent crashes for some reason after entering the PIN, 'ps' reports the daemon process as a zombie STAT START TIME COMMAND Zs Feb26 0:01 [gpg-agent]

Re: Restarting gnupg-agent inside X session

2011-02-28 Thread David Tomaschik
On 02/28/2011 06:17 PM, Marco Steinacher wrote: Hi, I use a OpenPGP smartcard with gnupg 2.0.14 and Ubuntu for different tasks. From time to time I face the following problem: The gpg-agent crashes for some reason after entering the PIN, 'ps' reports the daemon process as a zombie STAT

Re: Restarting gnupg-agent inside X session

2011-02-28 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 02/28/2011 06:49 PM, David Tomaschik wrote: Each process has its own copy of the environment inherited from its parent, so it's not possible to change the GPG_AGENT_INFO variable for all processes. You could start gpg-agent with --use-standard-socket, and programs should fall back to that.

Re: Restarting gnupg-agent inside X session

2011-02-28 Thread David Tomaschik
On 02/28/2011 08:20 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: On 02/28/2011 06:49 PM, David Tomaschik wrote: Each process has its own copy of the environment inherited from its parent, so it's not possible to change the GPG_AGENT_INFO variable for all processes. You could start gpg-agent with

Re: Restarting gnupg-agent inside X session

2011-02-28 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 02/28/2011 08:41 PM, David Tomaschik wrote: Other than on systems where $HOME is on a filesystem that does not support sockets (e.g., NFS/CIFS/etc.), is anyone aware of an issue with the use of --use-standard-socket? Seems like it would make restarting GPG an easier task. I occasionally