I’ve had this problem…noticed it when using gnupg in conjunction with org-decrypt on emacs org mode. Also had to reboot whenever this problem cropped up…
I’ve been using gnupg for almost 2 years now…I assume it is a known issue. I guess it still has not been addressed. > On Feb 17, 2019, at 5:41 AM, joerg van den hoff <[email protected]> wrote: > > maybe someone knows what is going on here: > > for some time know (since whenever `gpg' started to use this litte pinentry > GUI for querying pass phrases) I have the rather sporadically reappearing > situation that gpg interaction fails with a "no pinentry" error. this always > happens out of the blue after weeks/months of problem-free behaviour. > > the only way I have found to get it work again is reboot (this concerns > machines which are usually running 24/7) ... > > question: is this a known problem? why is gpg suddenly no longer able to find > the pinentry app to use (as it seems is the case -- or is it a problem of the > pinentry app itself??)? can/should I fix it via some configuration setting? > > thanks > joerg
