Problem with gpg-agent and seahorse

[Reiner Jung]

I get the following result when decrypting a message:

gpg command line and output:
/usr/bin/gpg --charset utf8 --batch --no-tty --status-fd 2 --keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve --keyserver random.sks.keyserver.penguin.de -d --use-agent
can't connect to `/tmp/seahorse-4VRcyo/S.gpg-agent': No such file or directory
gpg: can't connect to `/tmp/seahorse-4VRcyo/S.gpg-agent': connect failed
gpg: can't query passphrase in batch mode
gpg: Invalid passphrase; please try again ...
gpg: can't query passphrase in batch mode
gpg: Invalid passphrase; please try again ...
gpg: can't query passphrase in batch mode
gpg: encrypted with 2048-bit ELG-E key, ID ADDABA22, created 2004-07-29
      "xxxxxxx xxxxx <email address hidden>"
gpg: public key decryption failed: bad passphrase
gpg: encrypted with 4096-bit ELG-E key, ID EDAFBD4C, created 2007-07-10
      "vvvvvvvvv vvvvvvvvvv <email address hidden>"
gpg: decryption failed: secret key not available

The problem seams to be the missing /tmp/seahorse-4VRcyo/S.gpg-agent
but a file named /tmp/seahorse-z2o2Db/S.gpg-agent exists. So why does enigmail tries toget the wrong file path?

I also tried to close and reopen thunderbird. But that has no effect.

[Reiner Jung (prefec2)]

A the used packages are:
enigmail 2:0.95.0-0
thunderbird 2.0.0.6-0ubuntu
gnupg 1.4.6-2ubuntu

Distribution is: ubuntu 7.10 (gutsy gibbon)

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

If you restart the computer and try again, does that help?

[Reiner Jung (prefec2)]

that didn't work. But I found an entry in .gnupg/gpg.conf where the file path for the agent was explicitly set to /tmp/seahorse-4VRcyo/S.gpg-agent

This is strange, because I didn't configured that. Or at least I don't know when and how I made that change.

Deleting the line with

gpg-agent-info=/tmp/seahorse-4VRcyo/S.gpg-agent:12345:1

fixed the problem.

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

Odd. I'm marking this invalid then as I don't think that can happen automatically.