gpg-agent+pinentry doesn't work

[Bernhard Reiter]

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On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 09:48:33AM +0200, Sebastian Seifert wrote:
> I'm trying to use the Aegypten crypto plugins with Kmail for OpenPGP/MIME.
> I have installed unstable debian packages for gpgsm, pinentry-qt, ... from
> http://a2geo.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de/public-debian/,=20

$host a2geo.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de
a2geo.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de does not exist, try again

Thus: Which version of pinentry-qt?
Note 0.6.9 is the current one.

> following a spanish
> howto (which is very similar to the one on the kmail site, but points out=
 the
> debian repository), and I have setup ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf and ~/.gnupg/
> gpg-agent.conf to use the gpg-agent with pinentry-qt.

Try pinentry-gtk.

> When I test the gpg-agent with the command gpg -d sometext.txt.asc,
> no pinentry window opens, and after a moment, gpg prints "gpg: problem wi=
th
> the agent - disabling agent use". gpg-agent outputs "gpg-agent[26278]:
> command get_passphrase failed: ec=3D-1". The DISPLAY variable is correctl=
y set=20
> and I can usually start X applications from a shell.

It means something is badly wrong with pinentry-qt.
	Bernhard

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