On 15/10/16 01:45, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > On Fri 2016-10-14 16:56:37 -0400, OmegaPhil wrote: >> On 14/10/16 00:28, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: >>> On Thu 2016-10-13 14:09:16 -0400, OmegaPhil wrote: >>>> As soon as I did a killall to have gpg-agent load the new >>>> configuration and try again, it worked - I know that gpg2 stuff has >>>> updated recently, and my uptime is ~11d, so perhaps the update scripts >>>> don't kill off gpg-agent when theres some incompatible change? >>> >>> That's right, the package upgrade scripts make no attempt to restart >>> long-running user processes, for reasons i suspect you can imagine :) >>> >>> Can you review /var/log/dpkg.log to see what versions of gpg-agent you >>> might have been running initially? I'm glad it's working for you now, >>> anyway, though i'm still in the dark as to why it wasn't working for you >>> before. >> >> Latest mentions of gnupg-agent: >> >> ================================================= >> >> /var/log/dpkg.log:2016-10-02 08:11:27 upgrade gnupg-agent:amd64 2.1.11-7 >> 2.1.15-3 > > You wrote ~11d on the 13th. This upgrade is from the 2nd, ~11d before > the report. Can you tell me whether this upgrade happend before or > after the boot that led you into the 11d uptime? If it happened after > then yes, you were most likely running the older gpg-agent without > restarting it, which would explain the failures you saw. > > fwiw, gpg should provide warning messages to stderr if it discovers it's > talking to an older agent, but if you only accessed it through enigmail > maybe those warning messages weren't propagated through to where you > could easily see them. > > --dkg
No, 'old gpg-agent was running' doesn't seem to be the right explanation for this. The upgrade happened at 2016-10-02 08:11:27, however October the 2nd looks like monthly reboot day, since there was a reboot from a v4.5 kernel into v4.6 at 19:35:49, and then v4.7 at 19:40:19 (I'm running v4.7.5-1 atm). I'd like to say that any complaints from gpg-agent would cause that Enigmail dialog to pop up, e.g. the 4 repeats of the dialog originally suggestively match the 4 lines reported to .xsession-errors.
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