Package: pinentry-gtk2 Version: 0.8.1-1 Severity: normal This software is designed to fallback to curses mode if X11 is not available. The way this works is that it fallback if the $DISPLAY variable is not set. So that works.
The problem is if that variable *is* set, but the program can't connect to it, it totally fails. Demonstration: anarcat@marcos:~$ DISPLAY= pinentry OK Your orders please ^C anarcat@marcos:~$ DISPLAY=:0 pinentry No protocol specified (pinentry:20732): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0 anarcat@marcos:~$ This seems a little counter-intuitive... and fails in miserable ways from the users' perspective: anarcat@marcos:~$ gpg -s -a You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for user: "Antoine Beaupr� (work) <anar...@koumbit.org>" 4096-bit RSA key, ID 7B75921E, created 2009-05-29 gpg: cancelled by user gpg: no default secret key: bad passphrase gpg: signing failed: bad passphrase I looked at the code a bit and the problem seems to be that the pinentry_have_display() function only checks the DISPLAY variable and doesn't actually try to connect to the display. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_CA.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CA.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to fr_CA.UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages pinentry-gtk2 depends on: ii libc6 2.13-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libglib2.0-0 2.28.6-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.4-3 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libncurses5 5.9-1 shared libraries for terminal hand ii libpango1.0-0 1.28.4-1 Layout and rendering of internatio pinentry-gtk2 recommends no packages. Versions of packages pinentry-gtk2 suggests: ii pinentry-doc 0.8.1-1 documentation for pinentry package -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
