On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 07:01:12AM +0000, Mick wrote:
> 2010-02-25 06:48:32 gpg-agent[6741] starting a new PIN Entry
> gpg-agent[6741]: can't connect server: `ERR 67109133 can't exec
> `/usr/bin/pinentry-qt': No such file or directory'
> 2010-02-25 06:48:32 gpg-agent[6741] can't connect to the PIN entry module:
> IPC
> connect call failed
<snip>
> Why is it trying to call /usr/bin/pinentry-qt?!
>
> `ERR 67109133 can't exec `/usr/bin/pinentry-qt'
>
> Is this a valid binary these days, or an older qt3 version? I think it
> should
> be /usr/bin/pinentry:
>
> $ ls -la /usr/bin/pinentry
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Feb 24 07:01 /usr/bin/pinentry -> pinentry-qt4
Looks like you found your problem. I am not absolutely sure why
pinentry-qt is the default now. The man page says that running
'gpg-agent --version' will tell you what the default pinentry program
it calls is, and that depends on installation. So maybe file a bug? I
don't know whether this is a configuration/USE issue or something
hardcoded in the distribution.
In any case, two work-arounds are available:
*) create a symlink of pinentry-qt to your actual pinentry binary.
*) start gpg-agent with the '--pinentry-program' option.
Cheers,
W
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