On 2016-10-25 13:19:13 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > I'd like to learn more about what's going on that makes this freeze for > you. It's possible that it's talking to gpg-agent and gpg-agent isn't > responding as fast as you'd like because it's invoking pinentry > somewhere else...
This happened when I was at my lab and connected to my machine at home, and I've just gone back home and was surprised to see the dialog boxes (pinentry?) to type my passphrase. I think that what happened is the following: 1. Start an X session locally on machine A. I suppose that this starts gpg-agent automatically (otherwise maybe an "emacs file.gpg" is needed too). 2. From machine B, do "ssh A" (without X forwarding). 3. From this ssh session, do "emacs file.gpg". It seems that gpg connects to gpg-agent, which thinks that the current screen is the one that corresponds to the X session, which is obviously wrong. At least, gpg and gpg-agent shouldn't assume that they have the same $DISPLAY in their environment. Before I do anything else, can you reproduce the problem with something like that? > Are you using a forwarded agent or a local agent? No forwarding agent, AFAIK (unless I'm not aware of one). > what pinentry programs are available on the machine in question? > which one is installed as the default? zira:~> update-alternatives --display pinentry pinentry - auto mode link best version is /usr/bin/pinentry-gnome3 link currently points to /usr/bin/pinentry-gnome3 link pinentry is /usr/bin/pinentry slave pinentry.1.gz is /usr/share/man/man1/pinentry.1.gz /usr/bin/pinentry-curses - priority 50 slave pinentry.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/pinentry-curses.1.gz /usr/bin/pinentry-gnome3 - priority 90 slave pinentry.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/pinentry-gnome3.1.gz /usr/bin/pinentry-gtk-2 - priority 85 slave pinentry.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/pinentry-gtk-2.1.gz -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
