cannot sign email with PGP; cannot enter passphrase

[MissIris]

Binary package hint: enigmail

This started happening two days ago, without any other possible changes in what I was doing with Thunderbird, Enigmail or GnuPG.

When I attempt to sign outgoing email, it asks for passphrase and usually keystroke is echoed with the * (more like a round middle-dot character) inside input box. Then it signs email and sends it out (or asks for SMTP password.). Now it no longer seems to let me enter a passphrase (no echo; just blank) and when I hit the enter key or click on the OK button, another password box appears and says the passphrase is invalid.

I reinstalled the OS (Ubuntu 9.04), created a brand new PGP key, still the same thing. I am able to go into CLI and use GPG without trouble (at least gpg --enarmor and gpg --dearmor work). I am not sure if this error is caused by one of the packages that was updated on Saturday.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: enigmail 2:0.95.7-1ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: enigmail
Uname: Linux 2.6.30.5-ep0 i686

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.