From: Daniel Semyonov via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 64789@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#64789: 30.0.50; EPA fails to encrypt files; decryption and manual encryption works
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2023 16:23:05 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pm4km66e.fsf@dsemy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83tttw891n.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 22 Jul 2023 14:44:52 +0300")
>>>>> Eli Zaretskii writes:
>> Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2023 12:41:54 +0300 From: Daniel Semyonov via
>> "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors"
>> <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>>
>>
>> For the past few days I've noticed I can no longer encrypt files
>> with EPA, both new files which I save with a '.gpg' extension and
>> choose a recipient, or existing files which are successfully
>> decrypted but I can't modify and save. Specifically, when
>> attempting to save, EPA just gets stuck indefinitely with "Saving
>> file <some file>.gpg..." in the echo area.
>>
>> AFAIK my GPG config hasn't changed in months (and I fairly
>> recently encrypted a file with EPA), and I can manually invoke it
>> to encrypt files (through the terminal or dired for example). I
>> also got an error yesterday when trying to encrypt a file through
>> dired (by pressing '!' on the file and typing the command) which
>> said something about GPG not finding a valid TTY, but I don't
>> remember what it was and I can't reproduce it now.
>>
>> To reproduce failure to save an existing file: 1. $ emacs -Q
>> 2. C-x C-f <some file>.gpg 3. Toggle buffer modified by clicking
>> the indicator on the mode line. 4. C-x C-s 5. Wait forever.
>>
>> To reproduce failure to save a new file: 1. $ emacs -Q 2. C-x C-f
>> <new file>.gpg 3. Toggle buffer modified by clicking the
>> indicator on the mode line. 4. C-x C-s 5. Mark a recipient and
>> press [OK]. 6. Wait forever.
> This is due to a change in the latest version of GnuPG. We have
> this in etc/PROBLEMS:
> *** Saving, via EasyPG, a file encrypted with GnuPG hangs
> This is known to happen with GnuPG v2.4.1. The only known
> workaround is to downgrade to a version of GnuPG older than 2.4.1
> (or, in the future, upgrade to a newer version which solves the
> problem, when such a fixed version becomes available).
This is likely the issue, my distro seems to have upgraded from GnuPG
2.4.0 to 2.4.3 two weeks ago, I must have missed it when updating.
Should I close the report, or maybe it makes sense to keep it open until
a fixed version of GnuPG is released?
Thanks,
Daniel
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2023-07-22 9:41 bug#64789: 30.0.50; EPA fails to encrypt files; decryption and manual encryption works Daniel Semyonov via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-07-22 11:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-22 13:23 ` Daniel Semyonov via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2023-07-22 13:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-22 14:15 ` Daniel Semyonov via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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