Mailing List Archive: Problems with gpg-agent

Problems with gpg-agent

Feb 18, 2004, 8:41 AM

Post #1 of 3 (322 views)

Ok I use to have no problems with using openpgp and kmail, I had my system
setup as describe on the kmail howto.

However recently after upgrading to kde3.2, gpg-agent no longer works. I get
a very quick flash of what I believe is the password entry window that use to
come up.

Any help would be great.

Here is the output of my test with debug on:

echo "test" | gpg -ase -r 20492C6C |gpg

You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for
user: "Jeffrey Gordon <jeff@thetank.org>"
1024-bit DSA key, ID 20492C6C, created 2003-07-22

gpg-agent[0x807cf60] -> OK Your orders please
gpg-agent[0x807cf60] <- OPTION display=:0.0
gpg-agent[0x807cf60] -> OK
gpg-agent[0x807cf60] <- OPTION ttyname=/dev/tty
gpg-agent[0x807cf60] -> OK
gpg-agent[0x807cf60] <- OPTION ttytype=xterm
gpg-agent[0x807cf60] -> OK
gpg-agent[0x807cf60] <- OPTION lc-ctype=C
gpg-agent[0x807cf60] -> OK
gpg-agent[0x807cf60] <- OPTION lc-messages=C
gpg-agent[0x807cf60] -> OK
gpg-agent[0x807cf60] <- GET_PASSPHRASE
0E97B1F83A29B4A235EBD7D61F47D0B720492C6C X X
You+need+a+passphrase+to+unlock+the+secret+key+for+user:
%0A"Jeffrey+Gordon+<jeff@thetank.org>"%0A1024-bit+DSA+key,+ID+20492C6C,
+created+2003-07-22%0A
gpg-agent[8584]: DBG: agent_get_cache
`0E97B1F83A29B4A235EBD7D61F47D0B720492C6C'...
gpg-agent[8584]: DBG: ... miss
gpg-agent[8584]: DBG: connection to PIN entry established
gpg-agent[8584]: command get_passphrase failed: ec=-1
gpg-agent[0x807cf60] -> ERR 116 no data available
gpg: problem with the agent - disabling agent use
Enter passphrase: gpg-agent[0x807cf60] <- [EOF]
--
Jeffrey D. C. Gordon
jeff@thetank.org

Re: Problems with gpg-agent [ In reply to ]

kloecker at kde

Feb 22, 2004, 8:05 AM

Post #2 of 3 (316 views)

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On Wednesday 18 February 2004 16:41, Jeffrey Gordon wrote:
> Ok I use to have no problems with using openpgp and kmail, I had my
> system setup as describe on the kmail howto.
>
> However recently after upgrading to kde3.2, gpg-agent no longer
> works. I get a very quick flash of what I believe is the password
> entry window that use to come up.
>
> Any help would be great.

Most likely you are experiencing the pinentry-qt "out of memory" crash.
To check this run pinentry-qt manually and then enter "getpin" at the
prompt.

You have two options:
1.) Use pinentry-gtk.
2.) Patch pinenty-qt: In pinentry/qt/main.cpp around line 114 double the
value in the secmem_init( ... ) command. If you are using SuSE 8.2 or
9.0 then you can find RPMs of pinentry with this patch at
http://kmail.ingo-kloecker.de (at the bottom of this page).

Regards,
Ingo

Re: Problems with gpg-agent [ In reply to ]

marcus.brinkmann at ruhr-uni-bochum

Feb 22, 2004, 10:37 AM

Post #3 of 3 (318 views)

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At Wed, 18 Feb 2004 10:41:03 -0500,
Jeffrey Gordon wrote:
> However recently after upgrading to kde3.2, gpg-agent no longer works. I get
> a very quick flash of what I believe is the password entry window that use to
> come up.

Which version of pinentry do you use? Maybe try the CVS (or last release).

Thanks,
Marcus