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| Started by | Gregor Zattler <telegraph@gmx.net> |
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| First post | 2020-12-21 00:30 +0100 |
| Last post | 2020-12-21 12:10 +0100 |
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pinentry-{qt,gtk2,gnome3} stopped working pinentry-fltk works, why? Gregor Zattler <telegraph@gmx.net> - 2020-12-21 00:30 +0100
Re: pinentry-{qt,gtk2,gnome3} stopped working pinentry-fltk works, why? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2020-12-21 01:00 +0100
Re: pinentry-{qt,gtk2,gnome3} stopped working pinentry-fltk works, why? Gregor Zattler <telegraph@gmx.net> - 2020-12-21 11:10 +0100
Re: pinentry-{qt,gtk2,gnome3} stopped working pinentry-fltk works, why? didier gaumet <didier.gaumet@gmail.com> - 2020-12-21 10:40 +0100
Re: pinentry-{qt,gtk2,gnome3} stopped working pinentry-fltk works, why? Gregor Zattler <telegraph@gmx.net> - 2020-12-21 11:30 +0100
Re: pinentry-{qt,gtk2,gnome3} stopped working pinentry-fltk works, why? didier gaumet <didier.gaumet@gmail.com> - 2020-12-21 12:20 +0100
Forget it, user error (was: Re: pinentry-{qt,gtk2,gnome3} stopped working pinentry-fltk works, why?) Gregor Zattler <telegraph@gmx.net> - 2020-12-21 12:10 +0100
| From | Gregor Zattler <telegraph@gmx.net> |
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| Date | 2020-12-21 00:30 +0100 |
| Subject | pinentry-{qt,gtk2,gnome3} stopped working pinentry-fltk works, why? |
| Message-ID | <Bogjf-7i-1@gated-at.bofh.it> |
Dear fellow debian users, since yesterday pinentry-{qt,gtk2,gnome3}
stopped working. When I want to decrypt some .gpg file, no dialog
appears and gpg-agent times out. Luckily pinentry-curses and
pinentry-fltk still do work.
This is on a buster system with gpg* packages from backports,
pinentry* packages from buster (since there are no backports).
Any ideas how to re-enable pinentry-qt (which displays most
info about the key in question)?
Ciao, Gregor
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| From | deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2020-12-21 01:00 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <BogMh-gY-5@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| In reply to | #229871 |
Gregor Zattler wrote: > This is on a buster system with gpg* packages from backports, > pinentry* packages from buster (since there are no backports). > > Any ideas how to re-enable pinentry-qt (which displays most > info about the key in question)? why would you install gpg from backports? If you install one - install all. Things changing in gpg impact the other systems too. I can not exclude issues with the related (pinentry* packages), but either install all from the current or from the backports
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| From | Gregor Zattler <telegraph@gmx.net> |
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| Date | 2020-12-21 11:10 +0100 |
| Subject | Re: pinentry-{qt,gtk2,gnome3} stopped working pinentry-fltk works, why? |
| Message-ID | <BoqiB-6e0-11@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| In reply to | #229873 |
Hi deloptes, debian users, * deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> [21. Dez. 2020]: > Gregor Zattler wrote: > >> This is on a buster system with gpg* packages from backports, >> pinentry* packages from buster (since there are no backports). >> >> Any ideas how to re-enable pinentry-qt (which displays most >> info about the key in question)? > > why would you install gpg from backports? > > If you install one - install all. Things changing in gpg impact the other > systems too. > I can not exclude issues with the related (pinentry* packages), but either > install all from the current or from the backports there are no pinentry packages in backports. The system is up-to-date regarding the packages. Ciao, Gregor -- -... --- .-. . -.. ..--.. ...-.-
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| From | didier gaumet <didier.gaumet@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2020-12-21 10:40 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <BopPz-5P7-9@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| In reply to | #229871 |
Le lundi 21 décembre 2020 à 00:30:05 UTC+1, Gregor Zattler a écrit :
> Dear fellow debian users, since yesterday pinentry-{qt,gtk2,gnome3}
> stopped working. When I want to decrypt some .gpg file, no dialog
> appears and gpg-agent times out. Luckily pinentry-curses and
> pinentry-fltk still do work.
>
> This is on a buster system with gpg* packages from backports,
> pinentry* packages from buster (since there are no backports).
>
> Any ideas how to re-enable pinentry-qt (which displays most
> info about the key in question)?
>
>
> Ciao, Gregor
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Hello,
It is not clear to me if pinentry-{qt,gtk2,gnome3} stopped working or if it is not called anymore as it was previously.
As a first step, I would check what are the values of pinentry and pinentry-x11 alternatives keys (you may use upate-alternatives in a terminal or {g,k}alternatives as a GUI tool).
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| From | Gregor Zattler <telegraph@gmx.net> |
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| Date | 2020-12-21 11:30 +0100 |
| Subject | Re: pinentry-{qt,gtk2,gnome3} stopped working pinentry-fltk works, why? |
| Message-ID | <BoqBY-6k8-1@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| In reply to | #229874 |
Hi didier, debian users,
* didier gaumet <didier.gaumet@gmail.com> [21. Dez. 2020]:
> Le lundi 21 décembre 2020 à 00:30:05 UTC+1, Gregor Zattler a écrit :
>> Dear fellow debian users, since yesterday pinentry-{qt,gtk2,gnome3}
>> stopped working. When I want to decrypt some .gpg file, no dialog
>> appears and gpg-agent times out. Luckily pinentry-curses and
>> pinentry-fltk still do work.
>>
>> This is on a buster system with gpg* packages from backports,
>> pinentry* packages from buster (since there are no backports).
> It is not clear to me if pinentry-{qt,gtk2,gnome3} stopped working or if it is not called anymore as it was previously.
> As a first step, I would check what are the values of pinentry and pinentry-x11 alternatives keys (you may use upate-alternatives in a terminal or {g,k}alternatives as a GUI tool).
thanks. The alternatives mechanism was OK all the time, atm it is:
$ update-alternatives --display pinentry
pinentry - auto mode
link best version is /usr/bin/pinentry-fltk
link currently points to /usr/bin/pinentry-fltk
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-fltk - priority 70
slave pinentry.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/pinentry-fltk.gz
Since I use etckeeper, I also know that there are no mofifications
under /etc in the time frame in question.
I now found a way to get more debug info from gpg-agent
and will check this.
Ciao, Gregor
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| From | didier gaumet <didier.gaumet@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2020-12-21 12:20 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <Borol-6Qz-1@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| In reply to | #229876 |
Le lundi 21 décembre 2020 à 11:30:06 UTC+1, Gregor Zattler a écrit : > thanks. The alternatives mechanism was OK all the time, atm it is: > $ update-alternatives --display pinentry > pinentry - auto mode > link best version is /usr/bin/pinentry-fltk > link currently points to /usr/bin/pinentry-fltk > 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-fltk - priority 70 > slave pinentry.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/pinentry-fltk.gz Ordinarily, on my system, only pinentry-gnome3 is installed as I use Gnome. To have an idea of your situation, I just installed other versions of pinentry. didier@hp-notebook14:~$ update-alternatives --display pinentry-x11 pinentry-x11 - mode automatique link best version is /usr/bin/pinentry-gnome3 le lien pointe actuellement sur /usr/bin/pinentry-gnome3 link pinentry-x11 is /usr/bin/pinentry-x11 slave pinentry-x11.1.gz is /usr/share/man/man1/pinentry-x11.1.gz /usr/bin/pinentry-fltk - priorité 70 lien secondaire pinentry-x11.1.gz : /usr/share/man/man1/pinentry-fltk.gz /usr/bin/pinentry-gnome3 - priorité 90 lien secondaire pinentry-x11.1.gz : /usr/share/man/man1/pinentry-gnome3.1.gz /usr/bin/pinentry-gtk-2 - priorité 85 lien secondaire pinentry-x11.1.gz : /usr/share/man/man1/pinentry-gtk-2.1.gz /usr/bin/pinentry-qt - priorité 80 lien secondaire pinentry-x11.1.gz : /usr/share/man/man1/pinentry-qt.1.gz /usr/bin/pinentry-qt4 - priorité 80 lien secondaire pinentry-x11.1.gz : /usr/share/man/man1/pinentry-qt4.1.gz I would say that your system is not aware of an alternative version of pinentry-x11 other than pinentry-fltk. So unless the end-user program you are using is overwriting the default setting, it seems adequate to me that pinentry-fltk is used. You probably need to create alternatives entries (normally, that is automatically made by installing a particular version of pinentry-*, but you can try an apt reinstall or a dpkg-reconfigure of the problematic package), and then to declare priorities between alternatives in order to favor the flavor (qt?) you prefer.
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| From | Gregor Zattler <telegraph@gmx.net> |
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| Date | 2020-12-21 12:10 +0100 |
| Subject | Forget it, user error (was: Re: pinentry-{qt,gtk2,gnome3} stopped working pinentry-fltk works, why?) |
| Message-ID | <BoreF-6Nt-1@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| In reply to | #229871 |
Hi debian users,
* Gregor Zattler <telegraph@gmx.net> [21. Dez. 2020]:
> Dear fellow debian users, since yesterday pinentry-{qt,gtk2,gnome3}
> stopped working. When I want to decrypt some .gpg file, no dialog
> appears and gpg-agent times out. Luckily pinentry-curses and
> pinentry-fltk still do work.
>
> This is on a buster system with gpg* packages from backports,
> pinentry* packages from buster (since there are no backports).
>
> Any ideas how to re-enable pinentry-qt (which displays most
> info about the key in question)?
with further testing the pinentry-qt dialog appered
(but under another window). No ide why it is not on top
any more, but this is another problem.
Ciao, Gregor
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