seahorse-agent blocks gnupg from accessing card reader

[bjoern]

Binary package hint: seahorse

I have a card reader and a gnupg smartcard to sign and encrypt emails.
If seahorse-agent is running gnupg can't access the smartcard, i get this error message:

$ gpg --card-status
gpg: selecting openpgp failed: unknown command
gpg: OpenPGP card not available: general error

if i kill seahorse-agent than gnupg can access the smartcard

Seahorse Version: 2.22.1-0ubuntu1 (Ubuntu Hardy)

[bjoern (bes-schiessle)]

If i install gpg-agent and activate it in ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf so that both gpg-agent and seahorse-agent is running the problem is solved.
So maybe it would be good to install gpg-agent by default if gpg is installed to make sure people can access their smartcard and use seahorse.

[Stéphane Loeuillet (leroutier)]

Dupe of Bug #185563 ?

[Reinhard Tartler (siretart)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of Bug #185563 so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.