Control: found -1 1.0.0-1 On 2017-01-10 18:26:57 -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > On Mon 2017-01-09 22:08:09 -0500, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2017-01-09 18:00:14 -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > >> what happens if you do: > >> > >> gpg-connect-agent 'get_passphrase cacheval123 errorrmsg leadprompt > >> description' /bye > >> > >> this *should* throw up a password prompt in your graphical display. > > > > Most of the time: > > > > zira:~> gpg-connect-agent 'get_passphrase cacheval123 errorrmsg leadprompt > > description' /bye > > ERR 83886179 Operation cancelled <Pinentry> > > > > Sometimes a pinentry window appears. > > is the above quoted text an example of the pinentry window appearing > or not?
With gpg-connect-agent 'get_passphrase cacheval123 errorrmsg leadprompt description' /bye the pinentry window sometimes appears, but most often it doesn't. > >> you can clear the same cached passphrase with: > >> > >> gpg-connect-agent 'clear_passphrase cacheval123' /bye > > > > If I do that first, I get the same error. > > you get the "operation canceled" error? Yes, each time the window doesn't appear, I get this error. > what window manager are you using? fvwm > is there something else going on in your graphical session that > might make pinentry-gtk-2 unable to grab the keyboard and pointer? > are several of these things happening concurrently? I was thinking of gromit, but even after killing it, the problem remains. -- 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)
