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gnupg2 package

gpg-agent fails to start

Bug #571668 reported by Andreas Heinlein
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnupg2

I am having problems with gpg-agent on karmic. Sometimes it just does not start, and I cannot find out why. When it happens, no gpg-agent process is running, GPG_AGENT_INFO is not set, and ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent-info-<hostname> does not exist. I tried adding "--log-file ~/.gpgagent.log --debug-level expert" to /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90gpg-agent, but nothing is logged there when startup fails. When it does start, everything is logged just fine.

Starting gpg-agent from the Terminal works fine in every case. When it fails, logging out and back in again solves the problem.

How can I find out what is causing the failure?

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Andreas Heinlein (aheinlein) wrote :

Forget it. It was a local problem with our configuration - under some circumstances, ~/.gnupg was a dead symlink, and thus gpg-agent could not start. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Changed in gnupg2 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
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