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Re: Kmail and OpenPGP



On Thursday 03 June 2004 03:50 pm, Adeodato Simó wrote:
> * Andreas Bauer [Thu, 03 Jun 2004 23:01:34 +0200]:
> > Hello together
> >
> > I did a apt-get dist-upgrade yesterday and since then I have troubles
> > with Kmail and signing and/or encrypting messages using OpenPGP.
> >
> > Since yesterday I am not asked anymore for my Pass-phrase and so the
> > signing fails and an errormessages tells me if I would like to try again
> > (resulting in the same error again), send unsigned or exit.
>
>   i think the reason is:
>
>     - previous unofficial pinentry debian packages, had the binaries in
>       /usr/bin
>
>     - now there are official pinentry packages in the archive, which put
>       their binaries in /usr/lib/pinentry.
>
>   solution:
>
>     $ sed -i -e 's^usr/bin^usr/lib/pinentry^' ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf

I had the same problem, this fixed it.  Just change "/usr/bin/pinentry-blah" 
to "/usr/lib/pinentry/pinentry-blah".

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