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: Fri, 20 Jan 2017 00:14:07 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wpdqdu7k.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877f64r3qg.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Court\=C3\=A8s\=22'\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?s\?\= message of "Mon, 09 Jan 2017 10:18:15 +0100")
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Hi,
Previously, I wrote:
> In GNOME, this issue DOES occur regardless of which "pinentry" program
> I specify in my ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf file (the same issue occurs
> with pinentry, pinentry-curses, pinentry-gtk-2, and pinentry-tty).
I don't think this is actually true. I believe I made an error when
testing the different pinentry programs. I believe I forgot to restart
the gpg-agent, which would explain why simply changing the contents of
the gpg-agent.conf file did not seem to fix the issue.
I did another test just now. I tried changing the contents of the
gpg-agent.conf file, and I made sure to kill the gpg-agent process after
each change, so that gpg-agent would reload the file for sure. When I
did this, I found that only pinentry-gtk-2 exhibits this issue (note
that pinentry is a symlink to pinentry-gtk-2). In particular,
pinentry-curses, pinentry-tty, and pinentry-gnome3 all worked for me.
Is anyone able to reproduce the issue using pinentry-gtk-2? The
following steps should reproduce the issue:
* Log into a GNOME session on (a recently updated) GuixSD.
* In $HOME/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf, set pinentry-program to
pinentry-gtk-2, for example:
pinentry-program /home/marusich/.guix-profile/bin/pinentry-gtk-2
* If the gpg-agent process is running, kill it to make sure it loads the
new gpg-agent.conf.
* Try to sign a message, e.g.:
echo hello > /tmp/message
gpg --sign /tmp/message
You should get the error very frequently.
ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> For the record, I’ve never experienced this problem (that’s outside of
> GNOME) with:
For me, this problem doesn't happen outside of GNOME.
> $ guix package -I '(gnupg|pinentry)'
> pinentry 1.0.0 out /gnu/store/57dg2i4backl38bw4ipcsdg1b7df9j64-pinentry-1.0.0
> gnupg 2.1.16 out /gnu/store/fz44xcp1iksikjvcc472bgsr9hs8ygkq-gnupg-2.1.16
I'm using these versions:
$ guix package -I '(gnupg|pinentry)'
gnupg 2.1.17 out /gnu/store/mcsi9rp06q0xxds4mwdgh1p16bifjxvk-gnupg-2.1.17
pinentry-gnome3 1.0.0 out /gnu/store/4kq8isyz7k8y64l7mjy90y4rjv7mh9x8-pinentry-gnome3-1.0.0
The problem also occurred when using the "pinentry" package (instead of
the "pinentry-gnome3" package):
/gnu/store/b72r4rgr9irqy5zvb8i9hmrgrbb88ndf-pinentry-1.0.0
> ISTR that GNOME has a hack to force its own Pinentry tool. Could it be
> what’s at fault?
Where can I find more info about this hack? I did some Internet
searches, but I couldn't find anything specific.
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.
--
Chris
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-20 8:15 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 [this message]
2017-01-20 12:16 ` Daniel Pimentel
2017-01-20 12:39 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-01-21 10:38 ` Chris Marusich
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