Patrick Brunschwig <patrick <at> enigmail.net> writes:

> 
> 

> > 
> > 
> > I ended up downgrading Thunderbird to 10.0.7.el6.centos.x86_64 but
> > could not get that version of enigmail to install. I was able to
> > get enigmail-1.4-sm+tb.xpi to install. 1.4.4 shows it's for
> > Thunderbird 14 and refused to install. I guess if I want encryption
> > I have to stay at this earlier version.
> > 
> > Thanks for the suggestion - be nice if I could be all the way up to
> > date though.
> 
> I think the problem may be related to the used GnuPG version. Here is
> why: GnuPG launches gpg-agent automatically when needed as of version
> 2.0.16. If an older version of GnuPG is found _and_ no running
> gpg-agent is detected, then Enigmail will launch gpg-agent. This is
> however an issue, as it often ends up with "unresponsive JavaScript"
> with a not completely started gpg-agent and Enigmail failing to complete
> initialization. I have tried to fix this, but I cannot see how -- I
> have given up.
> 
> I see two solutions:
> a) upgrade to GnuPG 2.0.16
> b) start gpg-agent during login, e.g. add this to .xsession:
>   eval $(gpg-agent --daemon)
> 
> -Patrick

I did try to see if gpg-agent was the culprit based on some other posts. If I
reinstalled gpg and then immediately ran Thunderbird all was good, but one can't
reinstall software each time you want to run another program. I also tried to
run gpg-agent --daemon prior to loading Thunderbird eg:
$gpg-agent --daemon
$thunderbird

and it would work - sometimes. But all running instances of gpg-agent had to be
killed or Thunderbird would not close completely and would be running in the
background. 
I don't see where I can upgrade my production system to 2.0.16 until it's pushed
down through CentOS. What is the difference between your command and mine? eval
$(gpg-agent --daemon) and gpg-agent --daemon ? I may try this second solution at
some point.







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