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From: Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 25328@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25328: gpg: "Operation cancelled" with pinentry 1.0.0 on GNOME
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2017 02:38:28 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8737gc66l7.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878tq5ewi4.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Court\=C3\=A8s\=22'\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?s\?\= message of "Fri, 20 Jan 2017 13:39:15 +0100")

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ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Could you report these steps upstream?  That does not seem to be
> Guix-specific, though I suppose other distros probably install
> pinentry-gnome3 automatically when you install GNOME, such that the
> problem doesn’t show up.

I've sent an email to gnupg-devel@gnupg.org asking for help.  I'll
update this bug report when I have more to report.

> The “hack” I was referring to is probably just pinentry-gnome3.

I see.

>> This bug is no longer blocking me, since I can use pinentry-gnome3, but
>> I'm still concerned about the fact that pinentry-gtk-2 fails very
>> frequently, even though it didn't on the previous version.
>
> It seems like bad interaction between pinentry-gtk2 and GNOME.
>
> On this topic, I found
> <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=791379>.  Strangely,
> that bug discusses the opposite problem.  :-)

Weird.  I'm not sure how to approach bugs like this.  I could strace in
the dark and hope to see something that shows me the light, but
hopefully the gnupg email list will know better how to troubleshoot it.

-- 
Chris

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      reply	other threads:[~2017-01-21 10:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-02  1:50 bug#25328: gpg: "Operation cancelled" with pinentry 1.0.0 on GNOME Chris Marusich
2017-01-09  9:18 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-01-20  8:14   ` Chris Marusich
2017-01-20 12:16     ` Daniel Pimentel
2017-01-20 12:39     ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-01-21 10:38       ` Chris Marusich [this message]

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