Hi Daniel :  I sent another mail - this is NOT a problem with the nightly build.
It is my installation.

On 16/06/14 07:27, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> On 06/15/2014 08:53 AM, Philip Jackson wrote:
>> But when I want to send a signed email, it presents first the OpenPgp
>> confirmation dialog and when I select OK, it immediately gives the error
>> message "Bad passphrase" without having given any opportunity to provide the
>> passphrase.
> 
> you didn't mention what flavor of GNU/Linux you're using -- is it
> possible that you have gnupg installed, but not gpg-agent?  whne you did
> your import, did you import the secret keyring as well as the public
> keyring?
> 
I'm using UbuntuStudio 14.04.  It came with gnupg 1.4.16-1ubuntu-2 and the gnupg
website said that gnupg2 could co-exist without problem with gnupg so I
installed gupg2 as well.

I have gnupg-agent 2.0.22-3ubuntu1 installed.  From the date, it looks like this
was installed as part of the gnupg2 package and it contains 4 programs including
gpg-agent.

I also installed Kleopatra (because I like it) and GPA (because I couldn't get
my keyrings imported with Kleo).   In fact I had to turn to Enigmail's
key-manager to get the public and private keyrings installed.  Enigmail did it
with no problem.

> did you transfer your ownertrust database as well? (see the
> --export-ownertrust and --import-ownertrust actions for gpg)

As soon as the keyrings were imported, I noticed that there were no trusted keys
so I slid the trust database over as well.  Now enigmail, Kleo and GPA display
all my keys and trust levels as well as I had in Windows.

pubring.gpg, secring.gpg, trustdb.gpg are all present in the ~/.gnupg directory

> 
> have you tried to use gpg from the terminal to sign a test message?  if
> so, are there any error messages there?

I'm new to linux and not a great fan of command line (yet) but the following
occurs :

me@me-desktop:~$ gpg --sign test-message

You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for
user: "Philip Jackson <[email protected]>"
2048-bit RSA key, ID 23543A63, created 2013-01-22
(here I entered the passphrase)
gpg: problem with the agent - disabling agent use
gpg: can't open `test-message': No such file or directory
gpg: signing failed: file open error

I tried a couple of times - same both times.

command gpg-agent shows "gpg-agent: gpg-agent running and available"

Lots I don't understand here - all help welcomed.

Philip
> 
>       --dkg
> 
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