Hi Eduard-- thanks for commenting on https://bugs.debian.org/842015.
On Mon 2016-10-31 20:04:50 -0400, Eduard Bloch wrote: > this has been happening to me for a couple of days now. Restarting > gpg-agent does not help. Are you saying that gpg is unable to use any secret key material, reproducibly, for several days? or that it's intermittent for you? > Sometimes it hangs when doing signing locally (DISPLAY is normal, > running from terminal). Right now it's happening when I try to use gpg > on a remote machine accessed via SSH. Happens with mutt, and also with > dpkg-buildpackage. does it also happen with gpg on its own (without mutt, without dpkg-buildpackage)? What version of gnupg is installed? What's going on on the rest of the system? Does this machine have dbus-user-session installed? What version of pinentry is configured by default? How is gpg-agent being restarted (you mentioned "Restarting gpg-agent")? Thanks for any details you can provide, --dkg