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Bug#854355: Acknowledgement (/usr/bin/kmail: Unable to send emails - Could not compose message: Inappropriate ioctl for device)



Hello Maximiliano!

On Monday, 13 February 2017 11:32:00 CET Maximiliano Curia wrote:
> El 2017-02-06 a las 13:01 +0100, Dennis Schridde escribió:
> > The reason for this seems to be gnupg related: When I start KMail from a
> > terminal and try to send a message, a text ssh-askpass dialogue is shown
> > on
> > the terminal. If I enter my gnupg key password there, the email is being
> > send without any problems.
> > 
> > My assumption is now that ksshaskpass is somewhat broken.
> > 
> > ksshaskpass/testing,unstable,now 4:5.8.4-1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
> 
> The program launched by gnupg to ask the passphrase is pinentry (which is an
> alternative). What's your pinentry and pinentry-x11?
> 
>  $ ls -l /etc/alternatives/pinentry*

ls -l /etc/alternatives/pinentry*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Apr 29  2016 /etc/alternatives/pinentry -> /usr/bin/
pinentry-qt*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Apr 29  2016 /etc/alternatives/pinentry-x11 -> /usr/
bin/pinentry-qt*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 Apr 29  2016 /etc/alternatives/pinentry-x11.1.gz -> 
/usr/share/man/man1/pinentry-qt.1.gz
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 Apr 29  2016 /etc/alternatives/pinentry.1.gz -> /
usr/share/man/man1/pinentry-qt.1.gz

> Is the problem reproducible for you, if you set pinentry to pinentry-qt?

It is already set to that.

pinentry-curses/testing,unstable,now 1.0.0-2 amd64 [installed,automatic]
  curses-based PIN or pass-phrase entry dialog for GnuPG
pinentry-qt/testing,unstable,now 1.0.0-2 amd64 [installed,automatic]
  Qt-based PIN or pass-phrase entry dialog for GnuPG

--Dennis

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