-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 02/14/2017 06:47 PM, Anders Bateva wrote: > Hello. I've been plagued, on the last months, by the impossibility > of creating a key pair for me. I had given up, but as I continue to > use e-mail, I still feel the need to encrypt it, but I can't! > > I opened "enigmail configuration assistant"->"standard > configuration", and, as always, this process progressed a little on > the first 20 minutes (1 tick on the progress bar). Then, it stopped > for 1 hour. I already tried before letting it alone for more than 4 > hours, and no progress was made. It simply can't generate the keys. > The same happens by the way "enigmail key manager -> generate -> > new key par". > > I already uninstalled gnupg, and I'm sure I have gnupg2. I have > Thunderbird 45.7.0 with Enigmail 1.9.6.1. > > What to do? >
I noticed that you are using free BSD from the headers so I assume that you know how to use a terminal. Open up your favorite terminal an enter: gpg --version gpg (GnuPG) 2.1.18 libgcrypt 1.7.6 Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Home: /home/leroy/.gnupg Supported algorithms: Pubkey: RSA, ELG, DSA, ECDH, ECDSA, EDDSA Cipher: IDEA, 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH, CAMELLIA128, CAMELLIA192, CAMELLIA256 Hash: SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, SHA224 Compression: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB, BZIP2 You should get a response something like above. If you do not get a response maybe you should see if gpg is installed on your system. My favorite way is: ls -lh /usr/bin/gpg* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Jan 23 19:00 /usr/bin/gpg -> gpg2 - -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 989K Nov 2 2015 /usr/bin/gpg1 - -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 59K Nov 2 2015 /usr/bin/gpg1split - -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 364K Nov 2 2015 /usr/bin/gpg1v - -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3.3K Nov 2 2015 /usr/bin/gpg1-zip - -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 930K Jan 23 19:00 /usr/bin/gpg2 - -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 360K Jan 23 19:00 /usr/bin/gpg-agent - -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 143K Jan 23 19:00 /usr/bin/gpgconf - -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 149K Jan 23 19:00 /usr/bin/gpg-connect-agent - -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 27K Dec 28 01:45 /usr/bin/gpg-error - -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2.2K Dec 28 01:45 /usr/bin/gpg-error-config - -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4.8K Oct 27 12:05 /usr/bin/gpgme-config - -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 68K Oct 27 12:05 /usr/bin/gpgme-tool - -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 23K Jan 23 19:00 /usr/bin/gpgparsemail - -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 190K Jan 23 19:00 /usr/bin/gpgscm - -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 455K Jan 23 19:00 /usr/bin/gpgsm - -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 141K Jan 23 19:00 /usr/bin/gpgtar lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Jan 23 19:00 /usr/bin/gpgv -> gpgv2 - -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 405K Jan 23 19:00 /usr/bin/gpgv2 - -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3.4K Jan 23 19:00 /usr/bin/gpg-zip As you can see I have both versions of gpg installed and /usr/bin/gpg is actually a symlink to gpg2. I think that enigmail requires this symlink since it probably calls /usr/bin/gpg. If you have /usr/bin/gpg2 without a symlink gpg pointing to it then I would create a symlink manually. If there is no response from the ls command then you need to install using the bsd pkg command. If you have a symlink gpg > gpg2 why not attempt to create a key using gpg on the command line. gpg --gen-key gpg (GnuPG) 2.1.18; Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Note: Use "gpg2 --full-generate-key" for a full featured key generation dialog. If the gpg symlink points to gpg1 then the newer versions of enigmail probably would not work. You need the gpg symlink to point to gpg2. ... If you can generate a key manually then the problem is with enigmail. If you cannot generate a key manually then the problem is with gnupg. I hope that this rambling from a paranoid old man helps :-) - -- Rev. LeRoy D. Cressy mailto:[email protected] /\_/\ mailto:[email protected] ( o.o ) > ^ < Cell Phone: 267-668-9686 Please See My posts on facebook or googleplus Open PGP Key: C34B77CC gpg fingerprint: 8AD5 35EF 1FDF F1A7 E483 8CCE A50D 4E81 C34B 77CC For info on enigmail: https://www.enigmail.net/ For info on gpg: https://gnupg.org/ For secure Cell Phone: https://whispersystems.org/ Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. (John 14:6) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEEfUyUMGQH22pwR++ORf0F7etekPIFAlikT0YACgkQRf0F7ete kPJGyRAAkZFKkHUt8jEBGEkpUqhz3s/jqVMnDOclNzuA+E0U9raSLN1RnoRiDhz3 NsMoOjkG/rTzNhZ5WQbgQDUKcnJpOwFcras6ANAEp5BduNJZCcBArJSXqw0M0WOk hZ90T7DJhbAlkSw131ghnMNIcSWFAZumeqIdnBJ6LEIdJpZfXa0ca/RCzpIvwn5u R7qcYhVNM8igwnEIeHKKfiwXD6+k0nLN0D8nFXXrwh6A2VB4DRsbLse4Z3xuhGJ0 0nFJd1fxxizNFeMDFQ4RxCAFfrNS/2ZC+9mAU8nyl9YbnbeB17SE8CFoqdzm1Dcu b2zClihFPuvNMXmabGnDg4m/CSYmA3yYW74NpWXQwF+huo+Je5dvbGaYpOC+/oYB 3ZcOY99zcsa9LXgTFzAHkUGI9WDwELUXyUk/WopCm5OamYwGkMH5pzUvj9uIV4oA meQcB8Q6sFQOJ8F5m3LnQvuB7NeWeDE7Ecxwbf8AN8mPqEwLyFf86l8HjA9mcT2E NaHxNnBeVBSBk4JT29oj4oHNuB+sKmX42L6QXPxmbpJRseqh3ACxTlCL4KgFNou8 JrSPceUA1yKgnKE+0+gYjp0ZubBdeAr4+k0uKtvSd1dcdhR6TeeotD4gm3C8FgP6 ku6yTcfvOxpQMO54uNfiDEO+EbzRjKcMBcv02hNLLmbJcQdQ0yI= =YyjD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ enigmail-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or make changes to your subscription click here: https://admin.hostpoint.ch/mailman/listinfo/enigmail-users_enigmail.net
