Enigmail does not prompt for phrase to decrypt or encrypt mail

[Onno Benschop]

Binary package hint: enigmail

Clean installation of Intrepid does not prompt for pass-phrase when decrypting email. Same problem with sending an encrypted message.

Versions: Ubuntu 8.10
 enigmail 2:0.95.0-0ubuntu5
 thunderbird 2.0.0.17+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
 seahorse 2.24.1-0ubuntu1

Seahorse is running:
$ ps -eal | grep seah
1 S 1000 6024 5949 0 80 0 - 4538 poll ? 00:00:00 seahorse-agent

The error shown for decryption is:
OpenPGP Security Info

Error - decryption failed

gpg command line and output:
/usr/bin/gpg --charset utf8 --batch --no-tty --status-fd 2 -d --use-agent
can't connect to `/home/onno/.gnome2/seahorse-TTvSlU/S.gpg-agent': No such file or directory
gpg: can't connect to `/home/onno/.gnome2/seahorse-TTvSlU/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 A94050E9, created 2006-11-26
      "Onno Benschop (IT Trouble Shooter) <email address hidden>"
gpg: public key decryption failed: bad passphrase
gpg: decryption failed: secret key not available

[Onno Benschop (onno-itmaze)]

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/seahorse/+bug/183514/comments/10

This indicated an invalid path in ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf, commenting out the path and restarting Thunderbird fixed the issue.

I'm closing this bug because the gpg.conf file came from a gutsy installation.