I can't send a PGP-signed e-mail

[Ricardo Pérez López]

1. Open Evolution
2. Click on "New" button, for a new e-mail
3. "Compose a message" window appears
4. I select Security -> PGP Sign
5. I compose the message, and click on Send.
6. A dialog box appears asking me for the passphrase to unlock the key. I type it.
7. An error message appears:

------------
 No se pudo crear un mensaje.

 Debido a «gpg: can't connect to `/tmp//seahorse-b6NfP9/S.gpg-agent': No existe
el fichero o el directorio
  gpg: writing to `-'
  gpg: DSA signature from: "4DE85EF8 Ricardo Pérez <email address hidden>"
  », quizá necesite seleccionar diferentes opciones de correo.
------------

(In an English-Spanish mixin.)

Of course, I've configured the security settings (the PGP key ID) correctly
before composing the new e-mail.

Any ideas?

Ricardo.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

do you have seahorse installed ? does that happen without it ?

[Ricardo Pérez López (ricardo)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> do you have seahorse installed ? does that happen without it ?

No, I haven't seahorse installed. I tried installing it, but the problem remains.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

can you write to /tmp with your user ? could you get the english version of this
message ?

[Ricardo Pérez López (ricardo)]

(In reply to comment #3)
> can you write to /tmp with your user ?

Yes, perfectly.

> could you get the english version of this
> message ?

With LANG=en_US and LC_ALL=en_US, and doing the same seven steps as before, I
got an empty dialog box, with title "Evolution error", and containing only a red
traffic icon and an "ok" button. Pressing this "ok" button closes the dialog box.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

do you use gpg-agent ? can you try without it ?

[Ricardo Pérez López (ricardo)]

(In reply to comment #5)
> do you use gpg-agent ? can you try without it ?

Sorry, I don't know what gpg-agent is. Is it a package? I can't find it in the
repositories.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

that's a gnupg option. Do you have a file with this name (~/.gnupg) or a such
option for the gpg config ?

[Ricardo Pérez López (ricardo)]

(In reply to comment #7)
> that's a gnupg option. Do you have a file with this name (~/.gnupg) or a such
> option for the gpg config ?

Yes! In ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf, there's an uncomment line that shows:

   user-agent

and another that shows:

   gpg-agent-info /tmp//seahorse-b6NfP9/S.gpg-agent:2310:1

Maybe I must remove that two lines? Or to change with anothers?

I attach my gpg.conf.

Thanks!

[Ricardo Pérez López (ricardo)]

Created an attachment (id=1973)
My ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf file

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

(In reply to comment #8)

> Yes! In ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf, there's an uncomment line that shows:
>
> user-agent
>
> and another that shows:
>
> gpg-agent-info /tmp//seahorse-b6NfP9/S.gpg-agent:2310:1

Right, can you comment these 2 lines and try again ?

[Ricardo Pérez López (ricardo)]

(In reply to comment #10)
> (In reply to comment #8)
>
> > Yes! In ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf, there's an uncomment line that shows:
> >
> > user-agent
> >
> > and another that shows:
> >
> > gpg-agent-info /tmp//seahorse-b6NfP9/S.gpg-agent:2310:1
>
> Right, can you comment these 2 lines and try again ?
>
>

Yes! And works perfectly!

I don't know why these two lines are here. But the problem is now fixed
commenting that lines.

Thank you very much.

Ricardo.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

is that ok to close the bug ?

[Ricardo Pérez López (ricardo)]

(In reply to comment #12)
> is that ok to close the bug ?

Yes for me. The problem is solved in my box.

Thanks again.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

user config issue, fixed, bug closed

[Mario Vukelic (kreuzsakra)]

I woud like to have the bug reopened, because I don't think it's a user config
problem, but rather a bug in seahorse (possibly only in an older version). I run
up-to-date Dapper, the machine was upgraded from Breezy, and before that from
Hoary, with all changes applied as per the release notes.

Before I installed Seahorse, gpg worked fine in Evolution. Then I installed
Seahorse, added seahorse-agent to the session, and gpg continued to work fine in
Evo, but with the seahorse agent.
At one point (during Breezy) I removed Seahorse (including session entry) for
some reason, and gpg stopped working in Evo, with the error message mentioned by
the original submitter. Since I didn't really care one way or the other, I
reinstalled seahorse, and then it worked again.

Now I again wanted to remove seahorse, same result. Investigation shows that:

* Indeed there are the entries "use-agent" and "gpg-agent-info
/home/mario/.gnome2/seahorse-kbMJf4/S.gpg-agent:8477:1" in gpg.conf.
But I didn't put them there for sure, and since the second one references
seahorse, this is the only application that reasonably can have put it there.

* I have a whole bunch of files named S.gpg-agent in directories that were named
like the one referenced in gpg.conf above, ~/.gnome2/seahorse-<random>.
When I try to rm the files I get the error, "cannot remove <file> no such file
or directory". The file command I used to check for the type of file says that
those are sockets.
There are ca. 40 of these directories, plus
A directory ~/.gconf/apps/seahorse with gconf stuff inside
A config file ~/.gnome2/accels/seahorse which is a "automated accelerator map
dump" for GtkAccelMap by seahorse
A .desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications/seahorse-usercustom.desktop

Removing the use-agent and gpg-agent-info lines from gpg.conf fixes the gpg
error in Evo, but I am sure seahorse messed it up.

[Mario Vukelic (kreuzsakra)]

Sorry, gotta correct myself. After all I can rm the sockets I mentioned. The
"cannot remove file" error was caused by a mistyped find command.
The point about seahorse stands though :)