Gnupg doesn't recognize card.

taurus taurus366 at gmail.com
Sat Jan 30 03:23:28 CET 2010


On 29 January 2010, at 00:22, Chris Ruff wrote:

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>>>> Gpg does not recognize my fellowship card;
>>>> ~ xxx$ gpg --card-status
>>>> gpg: selecting openpgp failed: Card error
>>>> gpg: OpenPGP card not available: Card error
>>>> Reader 01: Gemplus GemPC Twin 00 00
>>>
>>> Is that a new OpenPGP card (2.0)?
>>
>>
>> No, it is a v1.0 Fellowship card.
>>
>> Only the Macbook Pro is new.
>
> On the Mac (10.5.8) I've found that when I receive this error to kill
> the scdaemon and reinsert the reader/card.
>
> $ killall -u <username> scdaemon     #usually has to be entered 2-3x  
> to
> kill it
>
> Then I'm able to reinsert and perform a 'gpg --card-status'
>
> Hope this helps.
>

I kill scdaemon several times but error persists.
gpg: selecting openpgp failed: Card error
gpg: OpenPGP card not available: Card error


Thank you,







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