I've just experienced the problem as well. Upon further analysis, it turns out that for me gpg-agent is started by the session startup scripts like this:
/usr/bin/gpg-agent --daemon --sh --write-env-file=/home/siretart/.gnupg /gpg-agent-info-faui44a /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session /usr/bin/seahorse-agent --execute gnome-session you can see this from the output of 'ps aux | grep gpg-agent' this means that the startup script make gpg-agent start seahorse, which interferes badly with smartcards, see bug #185563 -- [lucid] GPG smart cards no longer work https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/506681 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
