soportek <soportek <at> lavabit.com> writes:

> 
> Just before reading this I tried helping my coworker sign a local file
> on her machine from the command line and we received an error something
> like this:
> 
> gpg: cancelled by user
> gpg: no default secret key: Operation cancelled
> gpg: signing failed: Operation cancelled
> 
> After some searching it seems that this is related to gpg-agent. I
> killed the running gpg-agent process and restarted the OS and now she is
> able to send signed mails once again. So apprently this had nothing to
> with enigmail. Thank you for your time and advice.
> 
> On 01/17/2013 05:41 PM, Olav Seyfarth wrote:
> > Hi 'soportek' (is that your name?),
> > 
> > OK, so I sum up. Your co-worker used her key to sign messages using Enigmail
> > until recently but can no longer, she receives "Key not found or not valid",
> > and sending is aborted.
> > 
> > You verified that the key is accessible from Enigmail key management and
there
> > seems to be no issue with the key.

I, too, ran into this problem. In my case, the solution was to install a
'pinentry' package.

Details available here:
http://baitisj.blogspot.com/2014/07/enigmail-key-not-found-or-not-valid.html

Regards,
-Jeff



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