Is there a gpg-agent running on your system before you start another gpg-agent 
using the standard socket ?

Patrick

----- Original Message -----
From: Nathan Ringo <[email protected]>
Sent: 02.09.2015 - 21:54
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Enigmail] pinentry crashes, only on Enigmail?

> The plot thickens. When I try to encrypt something with a key whose
> password is shorter than the crash-length, I get a popup saying:
>
>     Send operation aborted.
>
>     Error - encryption command failed
>
> If I click Cancel instead of entering a password, Enigmail prepends
>
>     -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>     Hash: SHA256
>
> but has no appended cryptoblock. GNOME then crashed moments later, but
> that might've been a coincidence? I think it had something to do with
> Enigmail/pinentry/gpg-agent though. As always, having the debugging
> gpg-agent open completely removes all traces of a problem.
>
> On 09/01/2015 01:48 AM, Nathan Ringo wrote:
>> When I'm typing my password into pinentry, it crashes partway
>> through. Enigmail then says "no matching private/secret key found
>> to decrypt message". When I run
>>
>> gpg-agent --debug-level expert --use-standard-socket --daemon
>> /bin/sh
>>
>> as proscribed in the support page, the problem ceases to exist. I
>> can use command-line gpg with graphical pinentry just fine. The
>> combination of these two factors makes me suspect that the issue's
>> in how Enigmail connects to gpg-agent, but I might be wrong.
>>
>
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