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Bug#911768: pinentry-gnome3 fails to open a window with 'No Gcr System Prompter available, falling back to curses'

From "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Newsgroups linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel
Subject Bug#911768: pinentry-gnome3 fails to open a window with 'No Gcr System Prompter available, falling back to curses'
Date 2018-12-21 13:40 +0100
Message-ID <x7sfT-2nm-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 03:17:03PM -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> 
> I wonder whether we can rule out any interaction with gpg-agent itself
> -- does "echo getpin | pinentry-gnome3" itself fall back to curses on
> your system when nfs-kernel-server is installed?

I can confirm that that I did this experiment before I uninstalled
nfs-kernel-server --- and it fell back to curses.

The next experiment to do would be to reinstall nfs-kernel-server and
reboot --- and see if it falls back to curses again.

       	       	      	       	       	      - Ted

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Bug#911768: pinentry-gnome3 fails to open a window with 'No Gcr System Prompter available, falling back to curses' "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> - 2018-12-21 13:40 +0100

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