10.6: Still getting "No pinentry" error, nothing decryptable
GPGSuite 2013.10.22
10.6.8
Please describe your problem. Add as much detail as possible.
Nothing is decrypted - pushing the "decrypt" button does nothing. Using the service gives:
Failed decrypting 'encrypted.asc'
encrypted.asc — Decrypt failed! (No pinentry)
Code = 85
Please describe what you did expect instead
I expected the messages to decrypt, like they do with other GPG implementations in Linux and Windows :)
If you remember, please describe the steps leading up to the problem
I was running the previous version of GPGTools on OSX 10.5.x - it mostly worked, but occasionally it would fail to decrypt something, and I hoped that using the latest version with the new service mode would work. I purchased the osx upgrade to 10.6.8 and reinstalled the latest build of GPGTools today (31 Oct). Nothing worked - saw that it requires a reboot (this is a bug as the installer doesn't force this) - rebooted, still not working - nothing decrypts at all.
Output of gpg version:
gpg (GnuPG/MacGPG2) 2.0.22
libgcrypt 1.5.3
Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute
it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
Home: ~/.gnupg
Supported algorithms:
Pubkey: RSA, ELG, DSA, ?, ?
Cipher: IDEA, 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256,
TWOFISH,
CAMELLIA128, CAMELLIA192, CAMELLIA256 Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160,
SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, SHA224
Compression: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB, BZIP2
/usr/local/MacGPG2/bin/gpg2 --version gpg (GnuPG/MacGPG2)
2.0.22
libgcrypt 1.5.3
Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute
it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
Home: ~/.gnupg
Supported algorithms:
Pubkey: RSA, ELG, DSA, ?, ?
Cipher: IDEA, 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256,
TWOFISH,
CAMELLIA128, CAMELLIA192, CAMELLIA256 Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160,
SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, SHA224
Compression: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB, BZIP2
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Support Staff 1 Posted by Luke Le on 01 Nov, 2013 12:37 AM
Hi Carolyn,
very sorry to see you're having such a bad experience with our tools.
Could you please post the content of the ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf file?
That should hopefully shed some light on this.
Thanks.
2 Posted by carolyn on 01 Nov, 2013 12:42 AM
Thanks Luke - I hope this can be resolved :)
default-cache-ttl 600
max-cache-ttl 7200
Support Staff 3 Posted by Luke Le on 01 Nov, 2013 12:44 AM
Interesting, this seems to happen especially on 10.6.8 computers.
We have to investigate why this keeps happening.
Could you please add the following line to your gpg-agent.conf:
Then run:
And everything should be dandy. (at least I hope so)
4 Posted by carolyn on 01 Nov, 2013 01:15 AM
Still getting the same error (rebooted too):
Failed decrypting 'encrypted-1.asc'
encrypted-1.asc — Decrypt failed! (No pinentry)
Code = 85
I also tried encrypting a file to myself to make sure that worked, and it did, but obviously signing failed.
Support Staff 5 Posted by Steve on 01 Nov, 2013 01:28 PM
Hi Carolyn,
could you please run the debug scripts (the first bullet point in that listing).
Then post the output into this discussion.
Thanks, steve
6 Posted by carolyn on 01 Nov, 2013 05:54 PM
Hi Steve,
Well... seeing as others seem to get this to work on Mavericks, I went ahead and upgraded last night. Many reboots and reinstalls later, it now it works fine for decrypting. However, encrypting has a few problems, so I'll look for other discussions on those issues.
Thanks
Support Staff 7 Posted by Steve on 02 Nov, 2013 02:15 PM
Carolyn, did you follow our Getting Started Tutorial?
At which step are you running into trouble?
Glad a few issues have been resolved already. Now let's fix the rest. :)
8 Posted by carolyn on 02 Nov, 2013 03:18 PM
Since I was upgrading from the previous version, I didn’t think that much would change! Also I have been using GPG on Windows and Linux for many years and haven’t had any of these usability issues.
The main feature I miss is being able to select a key for an address that doesn’t have a key with a matching userid. It seems a strange choice to remove this from the UI and have it now only accessible from the command line.
Support Staff 9 Posted by Steve on 03 Nov, 2013 01:13 PM
So how does this work on Windows, Linux? Could you describe that, since I'm not familiar with how the process works there.
Maybe we can learn.
10 Posted by carolyn on 04 Nov, 2013 03:02 AM
It used to work in GPGTools by just using the "Choose..." option when enabling encryption for a message. If an address didn't match a key, you could select a key. That select-ability is gone now.
In Enigmail, you can similarly set a rule to use a specific key with a specific address -- effectively the same as the gpg command line, but you're prompted to do it from the GUI the first time you select the key.
Support Staff 11 Posted by Steve on 14 Nov, 2013 09:45 PM
Hi Carolyn,
the problem should be fixed. Could you please download and install our latest nightly build and see if the problem persists.
All the best, steve
Disclaimer: This is a development version which has not been thoroughly tested yet, so bugs or crashes are to be expected. Thanks for helping us test this fix.
Steve closed this discussion on 14 Nov, 2013 09:45 PM.
Steve closed this discussion on 30 Dec, 2014 06:39 PM.