I managed to get it working as a user by manually starting pcscd.service and with the following to force scdaemon to use it.
# cat ~/.gnupg/scdaemon.conf card-timeout 5 disable-ccid
To me this seems to be a regression in behavior from 2.2.27-3ubuntu2.1 to 2.4.4-2ubuntu17.
I managed to get it working as a user by manually starting pcscd.service and with the following to force scdaemon to use it.
# cat ~/.gnupg/ scdaemon. conf
card-timeout 5
disable-ccid
To me this seems to be a regression in behavior from 2.2.27-3ubuntu2.1 to 2.4.4-2ubuntu17.