On Wed, 14 Dec 2016 11:16:58 +0200 Mart Raudsepp wrote: > Ühel kenal päeval, K, 14.12.2016 kell 13:08, kirjutas Sam Jorna: > > On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 02:35:28PM +1100, Sam Jorna wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 09:34:21AM +0700, [email protected] wrote: > > > > > > > > On Sun, 11 Dec 2016, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: > > > > > > > > > > On 12/11/2016 03:13 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > gpg: signing failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device > > > > > this might indicate a want for export GPG_TTY=$(tty) > > > > I don't understand what has really happened. I removed my last > > > > commit, an > > > > attempt to commit it again failed with gpg: signing failed. Then > > > > I logged > > > > out of the box on which I have the git tree (I log in this box > > > > via ssh), > > > > and logged in again. After that the commit succeeded. > > > > > > I was also getting some odd issues with commit signing, though it > > > seemed > > > to settle for me when I switched to pinentry-curses (since I use > > > awesome), so I figured it was probably a local issue. Perhaps > > > there's a > > > wider problem here? > > > > If anyone else is getting this, it seems to be resolved by exporting > > GPG_TTY=$(tty) either immediately before attempting to sign or in > > your > > shell ~/.*rc file. > > I'd consider this a temporary workaround. The real issue would just be > workarounded with this, which is nice to get something committed, but > not so nice longterm. > I had similar issues, but it turned out some pinentry issues for me > iirc, so properly fixed by now and not needing such hackery anymore.
This is not a workaround, but officially recommended practice, from
man gpg-agent:
You should always add the following lines to your .bashrc or
whatever initialization file is used for all shell invocations:
GPG_TTY=$(tty)
export GPG_TTY
Best regards,
Andrew Savchenko
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