Dear maintainer(s), Wrt the bugreport I filed yesterday: after closely reading Gnu's gnupg documentation I solved the problem I encountered yesterday, so I think this issue can be closed.
My current gpg.conf file now merely needs use-agent (and so `pinentry-mode loopback' was removed). My gpg-agent.conf file now contains default-cache-ttl 1200 pinentry-program /usr/bin/pinentry-curses and so the line `allow-loopback-pinentry' was removed (the more generic specification `pinentry-program /usr/bin/pinentry' probably also works, but so far I didn't configure that) In addition, whenever I open a new terminal (xterm, rxvt, virtual terminal) the session's startup script executes (for bash): GPG_TTY=`tty` # note the backticks! export GPG_TTY For tcsh it is: setenv GPG_TTY `tty` # note the backticks! After these specifications gpg again worked as before. Kind regards, -- Frank B. Brokken Center for Information Technology, University of Groningen (+31) 50 363 9281 Public PGP key: http://pgp.surfnet.nl Key Fingerprint: DF32 13DE B156 7732 E65E 3B4D 7DB2 A8BE EAE4 D8AA