gpg-preset-passphrase not working with 2.1

[David Matthews]

On 13 July 2016 at 13:13, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg at fifthhorseman.net> wrote:
> Hi David--
>
> On Tue 2016-07-12 16:46:53 +0200, David Matthews wrote:
>> I can't get gpg-preset-passphrase to work with GnuPG 2.1.7.
>
> there have been significant changes to GnuPG between 2.1.7 and 2.1.13.
>
> can you try upgrading to 2.1.13?

I've compiled 2.1.13 on Fedora 23 and get the same result (test output below).

According to issue 2015 this was caused by a change that went into
release 2.1.5.

Thanks,
David

++ gpg-agent -vv --daemon --allow-preset-passphrase --debug-level 9
gpg-agent[12163]: enabled debug flags: command mpi crypto memory cache
memstat ipc
gpg-agent[12163]: listening on socket '/run/user/1000/gnupg/S.gpg-agent'
gpg-agent[12164]: gpg-agent (GnuPG) 2.1.13 started
+ eval ''
+ /usr/local/libexec/gpg-preset-passphrase -vv --preset -P test myid
gpg-agent[12164]: handler 0x7fc9c028a700 for fd 4 started
gpg-agent[12164]: DBG: chan_4 -> OK Pleased to meet you, process 12165
gpg-agent[12164]: DBG: chan_4 <- OPTION ttyname=/dev/pts/0
gpg-agent[12164]: DBG: chan_4 -> OK
gpg-agent[12164]: DBG: chan_4 <- OPTION ttytype=xterm
gpg-agent[12164]: DBG: chan_4 -> OK
gpg-agent[12164]: DBG: chan_4 <- OPTION lc-ctype=en_US.UTF-8
gpg-agent[12164]: DBG: chan_4 -> OK
gpg-agent[12164]: DBG: chan_4 <- OPTION lc-messages=en_US.UTF-8
gpg-agent[12164]: DBG: chan_4 -> OK
gpg-agent[12164]: DBG: chan_4 <- PRESET_PASSPHRASE myid -1 74657374
gpg-agent[12164]: DBG: agent_put_cache 'myid' (mode 1) requested ttl=-1
gpg-agent[12164]: DBG: chan_4 -> S PROGRESS need_entropy X 60 120
gpg-agent[12164]: DBG: chan_4 -> S PROGRESS need_entropy X 120 120
<snip> Removed lots of repeated lines </snip>
gpg-agent[12164]: DBG: chan_4 -> S PROGRESS need_entropy X 60 120
gpg-agent[12164]: DBG: chan_4 -> S PROGRESS need_entropy X 120 120
gpg-agent[12164]: DBG: chan_4 -> OK
gpg-agent[12164]: DBG: chan_4 <- [eof]
gpg-agent[12164]: handler 0x7fc9c028a700 for fd 4 terminated
+ echo 'GET_PASSPHRASE --no-ask myid Err Pmt Des'
+ gpg-connect-agent -vv
gpg-agent[12164]: handler 0x7fc9c028a700 for fd 4 started
gpg-agent[12164]: DBG: chan_4 -> OK Pleased to meet you, process 12168
gpg-agent[12164]: DBG: chan_4 <- RESET
gpg-agent[12164]: DBG: chan_4 -> OK
gpg-agent[12164]: DBG: chan_4 <- OPTION ttytype=xterm
gpg-agent[12164]: DBG: chan_4 -> OK
gpg-agent[12164]: DBG: chan_4 <- GET_PASSPHRASE --no-ask myid Err Pmt Des
gpg-agent[12164]: DBG: agent_get_cache 'myid' (mode 3) ...
gpg-agent[12164]: DBG: ... miss
gpg-agent[12164]: command 'GET_PASSPHRASE' failed: No data
gpg-agent[12164]: DBG: chan_4 -> ERR 67108922 No data <GPG Agent>
gpg-connect-agent: closing connection to agent
ERR 67108922 No data <GPG Agent>
gpg-agent[12164]: DBG: chan_4 <- [eof]
gpg-agent[12164]: handler 0x7fc9c028a700 for fd 4 terminated