Control: clone -1 -2 Control: retitle -2 GPA fails obscurely when no gpg-agent is running Control: severity -2 normal
On 08/31/2014 05:08 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> The two dialogs i saw were:
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> The GPGME library returned an unexpected error. The error was:
>
> Unknown option
>
> This is probably a bug in GPA.
> GPA will now try to recover from this error.
> [ Close ]
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> You do not have a private key yet. Do you want to generate one now
> (recommended) or do it later?
>
> [ Generate key now ] [ Do it later ]
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> This last dialog box just stays up, no matter what buttons i click.
Further testing reveals that the two dialog boxes show only when no
gpg-agent is present.
Instead of these behavior, GPA should probably detect the absence of an
agent, and either warn the user of its absence or start one up
automatically.
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