[intrepid] Enigmal breaks on upgrade from Hardy

[Dereck Wonnacott]

Binary package hint: enigmail

After upgrading to Intrepid via update-manager -d I have found that I am unable to sign or encrypt mails. I get an error about wrong passphrase, but I am not prompted for one!

[Dereck Wonnacott (dereck)]

recently an update allowed me to type in my pass-phrase once more and it worked for a day or two, but after another batch of updates, I can see the input box for the passphrase, but it will not allow me to enter any text into the box.

[Jaap (jaap-tuxic)]

I had a working enigmail installation (with Thunderbird) but after installing Dutch language packs i got the same problem as described above. I can see the input box, but i cannot enter my pass-phrase in it!

[LogicalDash (logicaldash)]

This seems to have to do with SCIM. I used im-switch to set my input method to "none," then logged out and in again, and suddenly I was once again able to enter my passphrase.

[Dereck Wonnacott (dereck)]

Ahaha! I have scim set up so I can type in Japanese. Link found :)

~Dereck

[LogicalDash (logicaldash)]

Now I've re-enabled scim, through a different interface, by entering the command <code>im-switch -z all_ALL -s scim-immodule</code>. I can type in Japanese again, and I can also enter my password in Enigmail.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

i assume that this starts working if you start thunderbird from terminal and do a
unset GPG_AGENT_INFO

before starting thunderbird?

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

tentatively marking as SRU candidate. waiting for confirm on last question.

[Alex Valavanis (valavanisalex)]

Intrepid Ibex reached end-of-life on 30 April 2010 so I am closing the
report. The bug is still marked as confirmed in later versions of Ubuntu.

[Marius B. Kotsbak (mariusko)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Ubuntu version. When you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running apport-collect 268951 and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.